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    “The Black Cat” is similarly dark romanticism because both stories showed emotion taking over the character making them see things and making them go crazy. The narrator had a lot of negative emotion towards his victims. This emotion led to the narrator hearing/seeing things. After the In “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrators were taken over from negative emotion, showing Dark Romantic traits. The narrator's valued emotion over logic and reason. In "The Black Cat"

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    Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” follows the unnamed main character as he slowly devolves into madness brought about by his severe alcoholism and subsequent bizarre abhorrence of cats. The narrator starts as a kind and loving person but by the end of the story is a violent and remorseless deviant. Throughout the story it is apparent that the narrator is drifting further and further from reality. As his drinking worsens, the narrator finds himself becoming increasingly violent, irrational and

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    The narrators of “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” were insane for many reasons. One reason is that in both stories the narrator is annoyed with something and decides to just kill the person/cat. This shows insanity. In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator is very annoyed by this one man. He goes to the man’s house every night and watches him determining how to kill him because the man’s eye annoys the narrator. One night the man hears the narrator moving and wakes up. The man’s heart

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    Many of the violent acts which occur in “The Black Cat” take place in interesting settings. First off, the story starts off in a prison cell where the narrator is writing the day before he will be executed for his actions; “But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified—have tortured—have destroyed me” (Poe 719)

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    Black cats. They are one of the world’s underrated and magnificent creatures. Depending where you are in the world, people’s perceptions of these felines are different. In the United States, they are symbolized as superstitious creatures that brings evil and bad luck, while in Japan if a black cat crosses your path, you will be blessed with good luck. My perception of black cats? Well…I simply adore them, as I have been blessed with one of my own. Furthermore, they have given me the inspiration to

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    in the streetlight. A large leafless tree lay far from my window.The snow slowly slid down from the tree and landed on a black cat. I chuckled at the sight of this subtle romance. The cat meowed. He looked as though he was merrily offering solace to the leafless tree. In its frail attempt to tease his sole companion, the tree sprayed more white snow and caressed the black cat. No human being was in sight on the empty street. The streetlight flickered in the distance. It was dark and no human in his

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    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” will leave you in suspense after every scene. As you begin the movie, you are greeted by a narrator who tells you that he is going to die tomorrow. He then continues by telling you about his life as a baby and how he was a very well-natured child. The narrator grows up to marry a woman who shares the same love for animals as he does. They have many pets but the most important one is their black cat named Pluto. The bond between the man and the cat grew for several years

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    “The Black Cat” Analysis When reading a short story many people take the details given to be the unconditional truth. This is probably why so many of these people are confused or repulsed by a story like “The Black Cat.” Throughout the story, the narrator makes numerous contradictions. These contradictions, combined with his actions make me doubt the legitimacy and truth of what he says. In the first few paragraphs of the story, the narrator makes a point of rejecting the idea that he is mad

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    In both the “The Tell Tale Heart”, and”The Black Cat”, the stories end with a death of a person. Some events in the murder are similar and different. In this paragraph, I will talk about the story, “The Tell Tale Heart”. In the beginning of the story, the narrator wants to kill an old man, who lives with him, because of his vulture eye. He decides that he will watch the old man at night and shine a light on his vulture eye. If he sees the eye he will kill the old man. In

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    In the Tell-Tale Heart, Poe’s narrator makes a claim that his actions were justified and that he is not insane. Likewise, the narrator of Black Cat uses a scapegoat, alcohol, as a reason for the horrible stuff he has done. The narrators both claim that there is a reason for the stuff that they did, so they couldn’t possibly be insane. In the Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator’s story was that he was with an older man. Whether he be the older man’s servant or child was unclear, but the narrator did mention

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