Violence In Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat

A new cat appears with a eye missing and the man is overcome with guilt and tries to kill the cat but kills his wife. He buries the wife in the wall with the cat. Edgar Allen Poe stories both have murder. They also have a twisted character

He abuses all of his pets except the black cat. Then one night he comes home intoxicated seizes the cat and cuts out one eye. The cat begins avoiding him, which angers him more and he ties a noose around its neck and hangs it. That morning his house burns down leaving one wall with “...the figure of a gigantic cat. The impression was given with an accuracy truly marvelous.

In “The Black Cat”, Poe wrote about a man who gets two new cats, and begins to loathe them. When he decides to kill both cats, he kills one successfully, but his house burns down afterward. When he attempts to kill the second cat, he kills his wife instead. Edgar Allan Poe uses writing techniques such as past tense beginning, main character insanity, and murder to create creepy and engaging stories. The first trait used by Poe is past tense beginning.

This perturbed the man so much that he authorized Contat to rid them of the cats. This set off a veritable slaughter. The apprentices rounded up every cat they could find, starting with the mistresses’ beloved grey one, and put them on “trial.” They found them all guilty and proceeded to hang and burn every cat at the

“The Black Cat” Everyone has had bad luck from time to time before, some people say that bad luck can come from salt spilling over, a black cat walking under a ladder. In the story “The Black Cat” the author, Edgar Allan Poe, takes this belief and blows the whole idea out of the water and into something different from the usual bad luck. The main protagonist, or the narrator in this case, goes through having bad luck throughout the entire story but this isn’t the same kind of bad luck that regular people would experience. This bad luck leads to him killing his wife and his own home burning down. Edgar Allan Poe uses foreshadowing and symbolism to show the character’s actions in “The Black Cat.” There are many examples of symbolism in the

“The Tell-Tale” is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story about an insane man killing an old man because the man has cataracts, or what he calls “the devil eye.” The crazy man is friends with the old man and is actually very nice towards him. The crazy man watches the old man sleep day after day for a week strait. On the seventh day, the crazy man is watching the old man, and awakens him by shining a light on the cataract eye. The light awakens the old man, which startles him and this startling provokes the crazy man to kill the poor old man just because he has a cataract eye.

In the first short story we read, The Black Cat, guilt is what causes the narrator to be caught for the crime he did. The narrator in this story hated the black cat that him and his wife had as a pet. He was an alcoholic, and one day when the cat vexed him, Poe, in the story, ripped the cat’s eye out. After ripping the cat’s eye out, Poe felt bad and decided to hang the cat. Poe hung the cat, so he would no longer feel guilty for the crime that he committed against the cat.

He eventually kills his cat, in a fit of rage, and then believes that the cat comes back to haunt him; He encounters a similar cat that bears a strange resemblance to Pluto. Coincidentally, this cat is also missing an eye, which can represent the recurrence of the eye within Poe’s works. Poe writes, “What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast was the discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes” (Poe, para 19). The narrator is taken aback by the cat's remaining eye, as well, claiming that it withholds an inner fire, comparable to that of the raven. The eyes of both creatures

One comparison is that both narrators’ victims were people whom they cared about and loved immensely. In “The Black Cat,” the writer kills his wife only because she gets in the way while he is trying to harm the cat. The text states, “...this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain.” This sentence from the story shows how furious the writer was. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the writer kills the man because of his “vulture eye.” The writer states, “I loved the old man.

In “The Black Cat”, The narrator is mentally trapped “in this felon’s cell” (Poe 3) by the haunting spirit of his cat. This drives him to attempted murder of the cat and accidental murder of his wife. He then physically traps her body in the walls of his basement which symbolized the simultaneous transition and distortion of his mental and her physical entrapment. Another story that clearly illustrates this is “The Feather Pillow” when Alicia, the main character, falls ill and becomes bedridden. While she is lying in bed, feeling as if “a million kilos were pinning her to the bed” (Quiroga 2), she is having hallucinations and nightmares, which put a significant strain on her mental state.

. . the Clans face their darkest moment!’ “ (page 124), directly shows that the four Clans were in serious danger because of the Dark Forest. The Dark Forest is a group of cats that have wicked intentions and enjoy killing to get what they want. However, they’ve been training Clan cats in their sleep without telling them their true intentions of wiping the Clans out of existence.