![]() Having lost his house due to a fire, he finds comfort in a new black cat. He struggles with alcoholism and cuts out an eye of the cat with fiendish pleasure and hangs it to the limb of the tree. ![]() The personality of the narrator changes from human to perverse after taking a black cat home. ![]() The short story “The Black Cat” remains one of his most mystifying and horrifying tales as the narrator confesses and recounts macabre past events prior to his imminent execution. The motives of mystery, death and macabre can be found in several of is well-known masterpieces, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Black Cat”. Due to his imaginative storytelling and mysterious and horrific tales, he is considered as the inventor of the modern detective fiction. Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic whose works have influenced the American Romantic Movement. ![]() This paper analyses the short story The Black Cat, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1845. ![]()
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