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story then the story would be dull and tasteless. In the story he turns from an animal lover to a murder. He committed a terrible crime due to his alcoholism. In the short story “The Black Cat‚” Edgar Allan Poe use symbolism and Point of View to convey the readers that what he did was not his fault it was “ The Cat.” The first literary element that the author uses to convey the theme is when the readers realized how “alcohol” symbolizes the narrator’s problems‚ abusing his wife and pets all started
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The Black Cat Narrator. Is the narrator in The Black Cat well some people say that he is but others out there might see‚ and say that he is not a psychopath. Yes the only way that i could see them thinking that he isn’t a psychopath is that he/she got a little through and stop reading it but if they did read it all the only way that they could think he is not a psychopath is that they think that the things that he does is only a psychopathic intention and it is just like a flaw that regular
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involve large philosophical concepts (such as life and death). The reader can interpret this story as an allegory about life and death as well as the lack of humans to bypass or avoid death. The Red Death acts in place of death‚ both allegorically and literally. It goes to show in the end material things really don’t matter. No matter how magnificent the castle he had‚ how upscale the food‚ how extravagant the clothing‚ nobody could escape death that night. The story also means to discipline Prospero’s
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a dilemma‚ and with the struggle of that problem comes fear‚ but what truly shows that character’s mental strength or personality is how they handle that problem. In the stories‚ ¨The Tell-Tale Heart‚” ¨The Pit and the Pendulum‚”and ¨The Masque of the Red Death‚” all of the main characters experience fear‚ but handle it in very different ways. Whether they use that fear to help them overcome the problem‚ or their fear results in paranoia. Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism‚ irony‚ and figurative language
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Edgar Allan Poe uses internal conflict in the short story‚ “The Black Cat” to show how the narrator slowly plunges into madness. In this story we observe a person fighting with himself because he does things he knows is morally wrong. The narrator first shows signs of insanity‚ when he mentions his changing mood: “I grew‚ day by day‚ more moody‚ more irritable‚ more regardless of the feelings of others” (1). This shows the reader that he is unstable and unreliable. He also begins talking
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Red‚ White‚ and Black With the colonization of certain regions in America came conflicts with the Native Americans and the earliest traces of slavery in America. Originally using African-Americans only as indentured servants‚ the growers and farmers eventually began to rely on African-Americans and Native Americans as a free source of labor. Iroquois Confederacy: The joining of six sects of the Iroquoian family and of the Eastern Woodlands area. By the 1700s‚ the tribes in the confederacy were
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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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Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe a prominent theme is that people can’t just run away from your problems‚ eventually‚ they will catch up to them. In “The Mask of the Red Death” is very clear that the main problem in the story‚ it is the red death. The red death is not meant to be thought of as real plague; it is a symbolism for the problems that await us and in the case of the book‚ the problem of death. The people inside the castle are sheltering themselves from the red death. They try to
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“Masque of the Red Death” Analysis With money you can do a lot‚ people with lots of money tend to wind up with lots of power or fame. Money can buy a lot of things‚ but longevity is not one of them. The theme of ‘Masque of the red death’ was “no amount of money will enable you to cheat death”. The author conveyed this by giving an example of a unique situation where a wealthy person tries to cheat death‚ but ends up dying anyways. He gives us the theme with three different literary techniques:
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