The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

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Introduction

            In this blog, I wrote about the short story. Here I'm talking about the story ' The Black Cat'. This story is written by  Edgar Allan Poe.


Edger Allan Poe 

        He was an American author, editor, poet and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective genre. He also gave his contribution to the genre of science fiction.


Work:-

      Edger Allan Poe gave his contribution in literature in a different genre. Here I gave some work which is written by him.

Short story:-

The Black Cat
The Tell-tale Heart
The Mosque of the Red
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murder in the Rue Morgue
The Gold- Bug
The pit and the pendulum
Ligeia
Berenice


Poem:-

The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The Happiest day
Alone
Lenore
Eldorado
The Helen
Tamerlane
The valley of Unrest

              Here our concern with the short story and that story is very interesting, with mystery and horror. This story named The Black Cat. 

The story in brief :

         The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator. He is a condemned man at the outset of the story. The narrator tells us that from an early age he loves animals. He has so many pets. His wife also loves animals. They have so many pets, one of them is large Black Cat named Pluto.

         One night after coming home intoxicated narrator knew that the cat is disliked him and avoid him even Pluto don't want to go near to him, and Pluto bits his hand and in anger took his knife, held it by the neck and cut out one of his eyes.

    After doing this he was felt guilty but then even we can't control his self and sometime after he knew that what he will go to do is evil even though he caught the cat and hung it by its neck from a tree until the cat was dead.

   The next day, the narrator returns to the ruins of his home to find, imprinted on the single wall that survived the fire, the figure of a gigantic cat hanging by its neck from a rope.

      At first, this image terrifies the narrator but gradually he determines a logic explanation for it, someone outside had thrown the dead cat into the bedroom to wake him up during the fire and begins to miss Pluto. Sometime later, he finds a similar cat in a tavern. It is the same size and colour as the original and is even missing an eye.  The only difference large white patch on the animal's chest. The narrator takes it home but soon begins to loathe even fear the creature. After a time the white patch of fur begins to take shape and, to the narrator forms the shape of the gallows.

    Then, one day when the narrator and his wife are visiting the cellar in their new home, the cat gets under its master's feet and nearly trips him down the stairs. In a fury, the man grabs an axe and tries to kill the cat but is stopped by his wife. Enraged, he kills her with the axe instead. To conceal her body he removes bricks from a protrusion in the wall, places her body there, and repairs the hole. When the police came to investigate, they find nothing and the narrator goes free. The cat which he intended to kill as well has gone missing.

 

On the last day of the investigation, the narrator accompanies the police into the cellar. They still find nothing. Then completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comment on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around his wife's body. A wailing sound fills the room. The alarmed police took down the wall and find the wife's corpse, and on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screening black cat. As he words :  I had walled the monster up within the tomb!".