Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat

In Poe’s “ The Black Cat” The narrator is married early , One night the narrator comes home intoxicated and gets the feeling his cat is resenting him, “Filled with Anger” he cuts his “Beloved cat” Pluto eye out and hangs the dead animal. Soon his wife sees it action the next day and he kills her as well. Not long after the horrendous murders. The police finds the bodies hidden in the wall and the house is burned down."This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil-and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own--yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own--that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimeras it would be possible
“Distressed and broken he looks for comfort toward drugs. Soon he remarries and turns bitter toward his 2nd wife. Soon his 2nd wife Falls ill mysteriously. The narrator sits bedside seeing hallucinations.
In Poe’s “Ligeia” &”The Black Cat”, there are a lot of conjoining themes. In both, the narrator’s wives die, abuse of drugs cause distress and disorientated feelings toward companions. “My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness” In “Ligeia” the distress is caused by the passing of his first wife. ”She died—and I, crushed into the very dust with sorrow, could no longer endure the lonely desolation of my dwelling in the dim and decaying city by the rhine. The narrator marries again to a women named Rowena, and moves from the city of rhine, in sought to find love again, but Rowena fell ill as well, where in “The Black Cat” the narrator doesn’t care for his wife. The narrator is consumed by guilt about what he's done. He does not seem to fully realize the amount of his guilt, insisting that he is not bothered by what he has done, but his guilt reveals in involuntary ways. He sees a vision