I
didn't really like the story "The Black Cat" that we had to read from
Edgar Allan Poe. Can someone tell me what the significance was in the story? I
don't understand the relevance of the white spot on the 2nd cat he gets from
the bar that night (or wherever he was), because in a way I thought that his
first cat was going to haunt him, but now I'm not sure. Another thing I didn't
quite understand about the story was how did he become the monster he was? Was
it alcohol and drugs that did it to him?
Post arguments, interpretative questions, and engaging responses on the week's reading.
The white marking on the second cat is in the same place as the noose with which the narrator hung his first cat (Pluto). Due to this, and its missing eye, the narrator believes the second cat to bear an eerie similarity to the first animal.
ReplyDeleteIt's not explicitly as to what causes the narrator's 'descent into madness', a tactic Poe uses to heighten the' fantastic' element of the story.
Oh okay that makes a lot more sense, thank you!
DeleteAs you can find from the text, the white stain on the second cat haunted him because to him, it resembled the gallows that reminded what he have done to his first cat Pluto (he hung him). Although the second cat had nothing to do with the first cat Pluto, it had resemblance that brought the man guilty feeling of killing Pluto. They say cat has nine lives, so the second cat might or might not have been Pluto. However, it definitely made him pay for what he has done to his wife and his cat.
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