The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe

The supernatural has always been an important part of human history. We have always been preoccupied with the thought of ghosts terrorizing us or our loved ones, or zombies rising from their shallow graves to come and feast on a lonely person’s innards. However, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe shows the idea of the supernatural in the short story. Some may argue that there is a supernatural presence in this story. However, it is quite clear that the narrator is insane, a drunkard, and plain crazy as demonstrated by a sudden blaze, hallucinations towards a similar looking cat, the making narrator kill his wife, and much more.
When the narrator becomes insane due to the cat “possessing” him, he kills his wife brutally. The cat is shown to
She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan. (Poe np)
This proves that there was something amiss with the narrator. When Poe uses the words “into a rage more than demoniacal,” he uses demons to describe how the cat made him feel. When a person loses their sanity, they do things that would be frowned upon in the normal world. For example, if someone were to start screaming in public, one would hope that they would be stopped somehow by good samaritans. In Poe’s case, however, the public may just ignore this entirely, hence the reason the narrator almost got away with the heinous murder. For more reasons than not, the murder and insanity is not the only reason for the inevitable demise of the narrator; alcoholism is another main factor. Poe states “For what disease is like Alcohol!...even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper.” (Poe np). Ths quote clearly shows how the flabbergasting effects of drink can hurt someone. Under the influence, the mind is not functioning to peak capacity. In this scenario, however, the alcohol is used to hurt Pluto, the cat in the story. He brutally murders Pluto, carves out its eyeball, and abuses it for the longest time. The next part persuades the reader into thinking that that the cat is possessed, but the only devil here is drink. In a shallow bar, he stumbles upon a cat. The said feline is a split image of the late Pluto, for the exemption of the carved eyeball, which this cat still has. The drink causes the narrator to carve out that cat’s eyeball along with abusing