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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat', 2002.
An analysis of the short story "narrated" by Edgar Allan Poe ' The Black Cat', and how he portrays the cat as a sinister and demonic creature.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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Metaphors not only can be used as literal interpretation of events, but also have metaphorical meanings. A good example would be the black cat in Edgar Allan Poe?s ?The Black Cat? and how the narrator in the story implied throughout the story that the cat is of demonic creature. The black cat in the short story not only has a literal meaning of a normal household cat but also from a metaphorical-side of meaning, as the narrator?s personal demon, which haunts him throughout the story and brings him to the point of near insanity.
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"The first mention of the black cat in the short story is when the narrator?s wife noticed his partiality for domestic pets and ?lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind? (894), which includes a black cat. In the beginning, the narrator describes the cat as a ?large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to a degree? (894). When he describes the cat in this way, the narrator gave us his view of the cat as an everyday, normal household cat that people who have had an encounter with cats can feel a real connection to. Even though some people might have the superstitious belief that an entirely black cat might be a minion of the underworld or a witch in disguise which his wife did when she ?made frequent allusions to the ancient popular notion? (894), the narrator tries his best to also show that this is a normal cat like any other. The narrator also gives the pet the name of Pluto, which is the name for the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. By doing this, he further connects the black cat of his to something from the underworld. He also calls what he sees when he went back to check out the ruins of his house that burned down as an apparition (895) and a ?phantasm of the cat? (896). An apparition is a ghost or spirit and by following what the narrator describes, his view of the black cat goes from a normal household pet to something that haunts him for months. The loss of the cat not only brought him remorse at what he did to the cat when he hung it on a rope but also regret at the loss of a fine pet."
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'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allen Poe, 2006.
A critical analysis of 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allen Poe.
1,246 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the short story, 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allen Poe. According to the paper, Poe is one of the masters of horror fiction and his story, 'The Black Cat', is intended both to shock as well as educate. According to the paper, the central theme of this story is that the real nature of true horror and terror does not necessarily exist outside of ourselves or in the dark night, but can exist within the human heart.
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"Throughout the story there is a comparison between two aspects of human nature. These two aspects however are seen to exist within the same human being. On the one hand we see that the main character is originally a good and kind man but that his nature changes radically for the worse. While alcohol is suggested as the catalyst for this change, the story also makes it clear that the transformation of the man for good to bad is a result of something more than just drinking. "
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat", 2006.
This paper discusses critics of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat".
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that Edgar Allan Poe, who is known for his "scary" stories such as "The Black Cat", uses descriptive narrative to get the reader intensely interested in what is going on, what the characters are doing and thinking, and what the climax will be in the story. The author reviews criticisms of "The Black Cat", such as that of William Henry Smith, who 159 years ago contended that Poe's reasoning was absurd and immoral. The paper relates that today Poe is considered to be a genius. The paper continues to describe the story.
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"So, what to do with the body? He places the corpse inside a wall by removing the bricks, putting his dead wife in there, and replacing the bricks. "Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster that could not possibly be distinguished from the old." This took some careful planning, but a madman can do these things, readers are to understand after working through "A Black Cat." After burying his wife, he now seeks out the cat that has been so much of a problem to him."
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"The Black Cat", 2006.
A review of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe.
1,340 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper takes a look at the short story written in 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe, titled "The Black Cat". The paper studies the narrator's behavior in a psychological framework in order to understand what prompted the narrator to commit a hideous crime. The paper further discusses how the narrator tries to manipulate the reader in an attempt to win his sympathy by alternating between narrative time and story time.
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"What is really interesting about the narrator is his subtle explanations of his behavior and the murder of his wife that we get from certain lines in the story without the narrator actually intending to reveal much. There is a small passage that gives away narrator's troubled psyche and his real reason for killing his wife. It occurs in the first part of the story when the narrator tells us: "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions" (850). "
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"The Black Cat", 2002.
A literary review of "The Black Cat" showing a human's self reliance and survival.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper suggests that the freedom of the mind is more important and complex than the freedom of the body as can be seen represented by "The Black Cat" where the perverseness of the free mind binds the body.
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"The Black Cat", 2007.
This paper discusses the elusive motives behind the narrator's actions in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat".
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper reveals that many of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, although appearing reader friendly and merely stories of the macabre, have many layers of meaning. The paper discusses how decades later, literary scholars continue to debate exactly what themes and messages Poe was trying to convey. The paper examines "The Black Cat" and the elusive motives behind the murders committed.
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"The "Black Cat," is essentially a narrative by a seemingly obsessed individual who is writing a journal entry "which I am about to pen," about a homicide with various layers of understanding, "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative." However, he does not expect anyone to actually believe this story. To make things more complicated, he is expressing that the narrative will be written in alternate states of reality, madness or dream, yet of an actual event that takes place in the ordinary, everyday world. He claims his purpose is to show "a series of mere household events" and hopes that someone in the future more logical and calm than he will understand the situation that he describes "with awe nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects" (p.230)"
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The Superstitious Perverseness "The Black Cat", 2001.
An analysis of the theme of superstition in Poe's poem "The Black Cat", as well as reincarnation, perversity, and retribution.
1,846 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 59.95
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"?The Black Cat? by Edgar Allen Poe is a grotesque short story of a man?s conscience. ?The Black Cat combines several themes that fascinated Poe such as reincarnation, perversity, and retribution. This story also carried an implied theme in the superstitious implications of this man?s downfall. In this story Poe keeps very strongly to the theme of perversity and superstitions to illustrate the strange conditions that led to the crimes of this ?happy man? especially fond of animals? (Poe 103). The theme of superstition is found to be a background motivation to the events and actions performed in the story. Towards the beginning of the story it is first mentioned to us that his wife always tells him ?all black cats [are] witches in disguise? (Poe 103). The narrator also mentions that the name of the cat was Pluto. Pluto in ?Greek and Roman mythology was the god of the dead and the ruler of the underworld? (Womack 5). The use of this name leads the reader to believe that the cat is somehow responsible for the death that is caused by the narrator himself. This is where the reader is first introduced to the fact that the events of this story could be caused by some superstition and not coincidence alone."
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Peter Cushing and "The Black Cat", 2000.
A detailed explanation of the relationship between actor Peter Cushing and one particular film adaptation (from the 1980s) of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat."
2,236 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 9 sources, $ 69.95
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"As any well-bred and well-read horror film enthusiast can attest to, there have been at least sixteen cinematic versions of ?The Black Cat.? Of this number, a few have adhered to the true essence of Poe?s tale, while the majority, as noted by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler in their Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, ?have almost always been expanded and altered, at times beyond recognition.?"
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Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat", 2004.
This paper is a complete analysis of how the main character is a disturbing character.
799 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper completely describes how the main character is disturbing. Many quotes and examples from the literature are provided. The paper describes how Edgar Allen Poe really spoke of the underlying meanings he was trying to get across to the reader. This paper also explains Poe's motivation behind his writing.
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"Edgar Allen Poe writes many stories which have the main character act insane or crazy, and one of these is a short story entitled ?The Black Cat.? In this short story, the main character seems to have extremely weird, disturbing things happen to him, and as a result, his reactions are just as extreme. Poe?s main character is very disturbing in this story. His behavior is truly not the most disturbing quality about him, but rather his behavior is just a result of this ultimately disturbing quality. His ultimately disturbing quality is the workings of his mind and how his heart handles the matter."
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Death, Justice and Edgar Allen Poe, 2007.
An analysis of the themes of death and justice in "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses how Poe as a writer dwelt much in the madness and morbidity of man and how he enjoyed writing about loss, pain and lies, as these were the emotions with which he was most familiar. In particular, the paper looks at "The Black Cat", which tells of a man driven to murder by his unexplainable hatred for his pet black cat. In the dark recesses of his twisted mind, he found relief in the gruesome passing of his wife with the loss of his reviled pet. The paper also looks at "The Masque of the Red Death", which tells of a plague that has purged the world and murdered everything in its path, killing without qualm and pity, not distinguishing between race, age, gender or social status.
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"In both stories, man's darkest nature was revealed. First is that selfishness runs deep in our veins. Prince Prospero paid no attention to the devastation brought by the Red Death outside his castle walls. As long as he had everything his heart desired inside, he felt safe and secured from the fate of a terrible death in the hands of an unrelenting plague. This thinking is foolish at best, for no one can escape Death. Death cannot be stopped by walls, doors or barricades. This lesson was learned the hard way by Prince Prospero and his dominions."
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Edgar Allen Poe, 2005.
This paper compares and contrasts Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
858 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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The paper examines two of Edgar Allen Poe's best and most moving pieces -"The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." The paper describes how in "The Black Cat" the narrator is a delusional man who has a pet cat and how in "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe depicts a narrator who is not only delusional but clearly insane. The paper highlights that in both of these stories there is a common thread of delusion and paranoia. The paper concludes that although Poe wrote his work in the mid-19th century the themes are still relevant today.
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"For decades, Poe has been regarded as a leader in gothic literature. His stories (along with his poetry) are often filled with violence and hatred and because they are dark and graphic, they usually depict the narrator as twisted and distraught.
The stories of Poe usually portray a narrator laden with self-hatred and said narrator often projects his own feelings onto the audience and other characters within the story. In "The Black Cat," the narrator is a man who places all blame for his alcohol indulgence--and later murders--on intemperance and perverseness rather than on his own insanity and lack of self-control."
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Edgar Allen Poe's Tales, 2007.
This paper examines Edgar Allan Poe's style of writing, with a focus on "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death".
1,002 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses themes employed by Edgar Allan Poe, such as reincarnation, perversity and retribution and/or revenge. The paper shows how Poe was fascinated with the mysterious and the macabre and knew about human psychology. The paper conveys the descriptive narration in "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death". The paper discusses how these two tales represent the genius of Edgar Allan Poe as a writer and master of the supernatural, the strange and the bizarre.
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"The Black Cat" appears to contain a number of themes that fascinated its author Edgar Allan Poe, such as reincarnation, perversity (i.e. a form of weirdness) and retribution and/or revenge. In the tale itself, Poe mentions that the main protagonist (an unnamed narrator) has experienced "a series of mere household events" that have "tortured" and destroyed him (234), due to having Pluto, a black cat, as a pet, a most beautiful animal, coal-black all over, taken in by the narrator and his wife. This unknown narrator, perhaps Poe himself, seems to have a serious problem with alcohol, for he states that at times he is driven insane with drink and ends up doing things that go against his morals. He calls alcohol "the Fiend Intemperance" which means that alcohol, at least for the narrator, is like a fiend or a demon that attacks the mind and leads to utter destruction."
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Unreliable Narrators, 2005.
A review of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," with a focus on the unreliable narrators.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper compares and contrasts Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". The paper presents a focus on the unreliable narrators in both stories. The paper describes the settings of each literary work and illustrates the reasons behind the presence of an unreliable narrator in each book. The paper explains that an unreliable narrator is one whose credibility is compromised by psychological instability or bias.
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""The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe have as many differences as they have things in common. While both are short stories written by American authors, one is written by a woman and a man writes the other. Both feature a color in their title but the focus of the stories is on the narrator. Each story has an unreliable narrator, but "The Black Cat" has an unreliable narrator by the narrator's choice, and "The Yellow Wallpaper" has an unreliable narrator due to psychological instability."
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Shame, Guilt and Fear Compared, 2002.
A comparison thesis on Edgar Allen Poe's tale "The Black Cat" and Earnest Hemingway's story "A Soldier's Home".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will compare two short stories that show how shame, guilt and fear, play a part in how these authors dealt with creating these tales. Edgar Allen Poe's short story "Black Cat" will be analyzed and also, Earnest Hemingway's short story " A Soldier's Home" will be the subject of this thesis. Both of these stories share similar traits on themes of guilt, shame and fear within the storylines that have been written around them and this will be proven in this paper.
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Fear and Madness in Edgar Allan Poe, 2008.
An analysis of the mood and tone in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-tale Heart".
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's works, "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-tale Heart", are stories that reveal Poe's incredible technique of establishing mood and tone through fear and madness with his narrators. The paper explains that by making the men in the stories appear normal, Poe tricks us into fear and creates a perfect horror story.
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"Edgar Allan Poe is a master at creating the perfect moss and tone for his horror stories. Two stories that emphasize this fact are "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-tale Heart," in which Poe heightens mood and tone with fear and madness. Both stories are psychological thrillers, a trademark for Poe. Jack Sullivan maintains that Poe transformed the horror story by "endowing it with new psychological insight and consistency of tone and atmosphere" (Sullivan 323). He adds that Poe's stories are "painfully artful" (323). These statements cannot be argued, as Poe delighted in the macabre and making his readers feel uncomfortable. Jay Parini agrees with this, adding that Poe's stories are stories of "intrusion--whether culmination in the act of violent murder or in the psychological violation of another person or in describing the internal war of the divided self" (Parini 269)."
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