the advent of the film noir‚ it is a film style of cinematographic film that is shrouded by a mood of pessimism‚ fatalism‚ and menace. This term is also used to define American horror/crime films back in the 1940s. An example of film noir is “The Black Cat‚” this film is a 1943 American horror film that became the universal pictures biggest box office hit of the time. Expressionistic style is a style concerned with eliminating all of traditional aspects of conventional musical elements. Also‚ expressionistic
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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
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The Black Cat Because he is due to die the next day‚ the narrator has decided to present the facts of a past event that has terrified and destroyed him‚ although he claims that he is not mad and hopes that someone else will be able to explain his story logically. He begins by describing his kind and humane younger self: he keeps many pets because animals such as dogs are so loving and faithful‚ and at a young age he marries a woman who also loves pets. In their household they have a number of animals
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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
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Character of "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ "The Black Cat" involves a man and his love hate relationship for animals that ends in sin. He describes himself as loving animals of all kinds‚ "I was especially fond of animals‚ and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets"(307). The character of this story goes through some changes of his own. After giving much love and care to his animals he starts to abuse them‚ goes as far to kill them and then commits the ultimate
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The narrators that are usually found in Poe’s short stories are unreliable due to various reasons. In The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart both of their narrators share some unreliable qualities. However‚ I found the narrator of The Black Cat more unreliable than the one from The Tell-Tale Heart because I found more unreliable qualities in The Black Cat narrator. With both of these stories being told in the first person perspective it only shares the narrator’s side of the story‚ and not giving
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types of literature. In literary works like “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving‚ and “Prey” y Richard Matheson‚ gothic elements are displayed in the form of: violence‚ death‚ blood‚ and supernatural to show how despicable and unreal scenarios can lead people into a dangerous path. Violence can be described as the use of physical force as to injure‚ abuse or damage someone or something. In “The Black Cat” ‚ vengeful acts are displayed as extremely violent
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Many people believe that black cats bring bad luck or represent death. The superstition and myths of cats still remain. I believe that the story “The Black Cat” illustrates well that belief‚ within this story of a man with misfortunate events throughout his life. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of The Black Cat. He was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts and was the son of two actors. Poe was very much involved with literature and he was an American writer‚ editor‚ and literary critic. Well-known for
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dashed the brains out‚ had I so sworn as you Have done to this‚” she is able to force Macbeth into betraying Duncan and Banquo to gain the crown (The Tragedy of Macbeth). While Lady Macbeth is the abuser in Macbeth‚ The Wife is the victim of abuse in Black Cat as “I [The Narrator] suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length‚ I even offered her personal violence.” (Poe).
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Poe’s “The Black Cat” Short Response Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” can be considered a horror story as well as a study in human psychology. The horrors of the violent acts committed by the narrator are explained as the story progresses as is the demise of his mental state. As he describes himself in the opening of the story as a lover of animals‚ it is shocking to later read of his first act of violence toward his cat‚ the gouging out of his eye. Although the narrator appears to show some
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