CCR199H1 Chapter 2: The Black Cat
16 Oct 2016
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To believe that deep inside your soul hides a dark presence, a sinful corruption that, if unleashed, would wreak absolute havoc in your life, could be someone"s idea of an evil conscience. Though this belief is rarely seen nowadays, in the gothic times in which edgar allan. Poe wrote the black cat , an evil, luring presence of the supernatural kind was very commonly believed in. Poe"s story focuses on a single man"s road to destruction, but through his madness, there is one symbol seen again and again; the black cat. The story is positively littered with evidence of our narrator being unreliable. He starts the story off by accepting the audience"s disbelief, because he knows how unbelievable his story is. This alludes to the idea that he has been accused of madness before. He also admits that he was under the control of a fiend intemperance , meaning he was an alcoholic.
