The%20Black%20Cat

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The Black Cat

• By Edgar Allan Poe

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The Narrator as a Youth /Young Man

• Personality Tenderness of heart
• Disposition Docile, gentle, humane
• Friends Had some they joked about his
  tender-heartedness

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Early Issues

• He MISTRUSTED PEOPLE
• even as a young man
• thought animals were more trustworthy!

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The Narrator as a Youth/Young Man

• Marriage Wife had the same likes as he did, esp.
  for animals
• Pets Birds, goldfish, dog, rabbit, monkey, cat

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Changes in the Narrator

• Personality
• Disposition
• Friends
• Marriage
• Pets

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Narrator and Wife

• He treated her with
• Intemperate language
• Personal violence

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Narrator Pluto
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FIRE!
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I approached and saw, as if graven in bas
relief upon the white surface, the figure of a
gigantic cat. 
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After the Fire

• Changes in Lifestyle

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After the Fire

• The Second Cat

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A Wifes Revenge?

• Women marriage in early 1800s
• Power of suggestion
• Repressed/dulled guilt

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Final Downfall
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A Cats Revenge?
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What Goes Around Comes Around
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Poe, Catarina, and Virginia