![]() It was even with great difficulty that could prevent from following through the streets." Their friendship lasted for several years until the man's temperament began to change. He "alone fed him, and he attended wherever he went about the house. Out of all the pets, Pluto was his favorite. Pluto, the cat, was "a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree." As the narrator remembers Pluto, he also remembers something that his wife once said about all black cats being witches in disguise according to "some ancient popular notion." He never really believed she was serious about this point, and he is not quite sure why he remembers it now. They had "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by parents with a great variety of pets." He married at an early age, and like the narrator, his wife had a similar love for animals. disposition." His tenderness of heart made him ".the jest of companions. As he awaits his own death, he finds it necessary to record the events which seduced him into murder and informed the police of his crime.įrom infancy, the narrator had been noted for his "docility and humanity of. Tomorrow the narrator will be executed for the brutal murder of his wife. My immediate purpose is to place before the world.a series of mere household events.hese events have terrified-have tortured-have destroyed me.erhaps.some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own.will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul. ![]() Yet, mad am I not-and very surely do I not dream. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Summary of the story "For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Educational users and researchers must use properĭocumentation procedures, crediting both the publisher, Christoffer Any for-profit use of this material is expresslyįorbidden. Granted by the author to Christoffer Nilsson for use exclusively in Retained by the author, copyright pending. Illustration is copyright © 1997 Christoffer Nilsson Martha is proud and pleased to be a part of the Poe Decoder, a continual project to dispel the myth surrounding Poe, the man and his literature. As she began to research the author's life and literature, Martha discovered that a horrible injustice had occurred, and she became determined, like many others, "to set the record straight." "This mission" has lead to ten years of research and the creation of her web site, Precisely Poe. When Martha first began teaching American literature, she found so much conflicting information about Edgar Allan Poe that she became confused about what to teach her students. Martha Womack, better known to Internet users as Precisely Poe, has a BA degree in English from Longwood College in Virginia, and teaches English and Theatre Arts at Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia. The capacity for violence and horror lies within each of us, no matter how docile and humane our dispositions might appear. The Poe Decoder - "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" "The Black Cat," which first appeared in the United States Saturday Post (The Saturday Evening Post) on August 19, 1843, serves as a reminder for all of us.
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