The Narrator's Insanity

The fact that the narrator drinks as well emphasized on this and as a result, allows Poe to create wild events in the story. The author then recounts how he goes home drunk one day, where his cat then annoys him and he stabs its eye out, along with hanging it from a tree. The same night, his house burns down to the ground with police later finding the narrators wife buried in the basement with the cat on her. This description of crazy events shows that Poe's use of the unreliable first person narrator allows him to go on the broad aspect of crazy events in his

Insanity vs. Sanity: Sometimes Being Ignorant is the Intelligent Choice In the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey utilizes literary devices, irony, tone and conflict to achieve the theme of the difference between being sane but ignorant and being insane but intelligent. The tone, irony, and setting of this book helps the reader create a mental image of the real location and the situations the characters were at times. Symbolism is added as well in order to further understand the way the characters think.

Either conform and be released, or maintain your integrity and be kept in the ward. This is the harsh reality that Ken Kesey wrote about in his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Throughout the novel, Kasey makes the readers question whether these people were so different that they needed to be treated in a special manner, or if they were only different from the majority of society who took the easy way out by placing them in an institute and forgetting about them. This novel served as an inspiration to many, and continues to have people questioning authority, and more importantly, questioning insanity to this day. Ken Kesey shows that the line drawn between sanity and insanity is based entirely on individual perception, and it is difficult to determine exactly where that line should be drawn.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, considers the qualities in which society determines sanity. The label of insanity is given when someone is different from the perceived norm. Conversely, a person is perceived as sane when their behavior is consistent with the beliefs of the majority. Although the characters of this novel are patients of a mental institution, they all show qualities of sanity. The book is narrated by Chief Brodmen, an observant chronic psychiatric patient, who many believe to be deaf and dumb.

In a horror story called The Black Cat, written by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator drastically changes. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is docile. He loves animals so much that he has birds, goldfish, a dog, a small monkey, and a cat. His favorite of all the animals was the cat named Pluto. He was a large black cat, and was very smart.

Do you believe the insane should be held responsible for their criminal acts? The narrator in this story murdered a old man. We are figuring out if he is guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. The narrator is not guilty by reason of insanity because he killed the victim because of his eye which is not sane, he thought that his own guilt was the dead old man 's heartbeat, and he had officers sit where the victim 's corpse lies.

Just like the narrator in “The Black Cat” at first attempts to find a more reasonable cause for a large amount of coincidences and then later begins to believe that the cat’s soul had came back to haunt him. The narrator of “The Raven” ends up laughing at the raven, thinking that the raven’s appearance to be very odd and a coincidence. However, after he thinks that he hears the footfall of angels, his mood changes very quickly and he goes completely crazy and loses his temper in his agony of memories of his wife, Lenore. The sudden change in moods and his subsequent detachment from reality characterizes him as a man driven insane by

In conclusion, the symbolism, point of view, and character development contribute greatly to the effect of shocking insanity in Poe’s story, “The Black Cat.” The narrator appears at first to love both his wife and his pets, but by the end of the story his affection has turned to neglect, spite, and particularly for Pluto and his inheritor. Conceivably, suggesting that madness might happen at any time to any person, the narrator admit the role of alcohol in his behavior. Moreover, the arrival of the second cat is exactly relates to his alcoholism. Since, he first finds the cat in a disreputable drinking establishment.

In the gruesome short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe a nameless narrator tells his story of his drunken and moody life before he gets hung the next day. The intoxicated narrator kills his favorite cat, Pluto and his wife with an axe. Soon enough, the narrator gets caught and there he ends up, in jail. Although, most readers of “The Black Cat” have argued the narrators insanity, more evidence have shown that he is just a moody alcoholic with a lousy temper.

The narrator got another cat after this and became even more insane in the way he felt about this black cat.

Her behavior is better shown in the story, where it could be described as sweet and loyal to her husband in the beginning but to the cat at the end. The actor the directors chose for the narrator accurately depicts the insanity the narrator in the story shows when he murders his wife and hides the body, but still sleeps well with the knowledge that the cat he hates is nowhere near

The Black Cat is written by Edgar Allan Poe, who has written much in the past. He was always questioned about how reliable his stories were in the past, but in this story it brings major attention to the reasons why. In the story the narrator states “…a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified - have tortured - have destroyed me.” In that quote it shows that his past life affected his actions that took place in The Black Cat.

In paragraph 5, it states, “I was fond of animals.” But in the story, the narrator can be found killing and abusing cats even though it contradicts the previous life of the narrator and shows perverseness taking the wheel. During this point of the story, the stories characters are barely being introduced and nothing has really taken off yet. The textual evidence shows that when he had been a kid, he had not disliked cats, in fact he liked them, but now he's found cutting his cat's eye out and abusing him. This is important becuase someone who likes animals would never think of doing some of the things he has done to his cat.

The narrator pushed the man to kill his wife but then waits to expose the man. In the quote “It was the same horrible animal whose craft had tricked me into murder.” the narrator is trying to blame the cat for the crime he committed. The Antagonist defeats the Protagonist because at the end of the story the cat is found in the wall along with the dead body of the Protagonist wife. I believe that

Insanity is a bully, everywhere i would go they would be, maybe not close to me but they’d be there. Insanity decided that we could be friends; however, this made all of my other friends slowly start to leave me one by one. Insanity slowly got closer and closer to me until he was always beside me. The only person that stayed near me was fear, that was only until insanity introduced me to happiness though. We became the best of friends, up until the very end in the comfy white room with all my new friends in white