Create a 3 pages page paper that discusses the black cat by edgar allan poe. Edgar Alan Poe’s story the black cat is one of his most notable works which stands out among other reasons for its portrayal of the human capacity for evil depicted in the machinations of a murderer haunted by his crimes. The story is centers around the main character. a man who lives with his wife and servants and several pets his favorite which is a cat named Pluto however he slowly loses control of his faculties and develops a predisposition for violence and this drives him into maiming than later killing his cat. Later another cat takes its place and although he endeavored to treat it with affection, he develops an inexplicable hatred for it, so much that he tries to kill it but instead kills his wife by accident. He walls her body in the cellar and later when the police come to investigate, walks them around the caller confident that his action will not be discovered, however in his bravado he taps the wall where the woman was hidden and the cat issues a cries from with. The police open the wall and find not only the decomposing body of his victim but also the cat which sat on her head feeding on scraps from her body. This paper endeavors to explore how the writer has used varies images and plot development to create a horrifying and dreadful atmosphere that drawing the reader into the narrators demented and haunted mind.
