Part one of term paper
In , Poe's narrator confesses to the brutal murder of his wife, in detail, blaming the black cat. In this story we see how human emotions and actions can be stretched beyond the limits of morality. The Black Cat raises questions of not only the character's sanity but of Poe's own. Even though Poe's sanity is questionable there is a positi ...

Part two of term paper
... first person narrator who describes his horrid actions as “… a series of mere household events, “ which in effect were, but the outcome of the “… mere household events” were not in any way insignificant (102; pt. 1, ch. 3). Poe's narrator explains to us that in his youth he loved animals and received full enjoyment from them; he goes so far as to say that his peers made fun of him because he was so soft hearted and an avid animal lover. With the narrator's love for animals I can relat ...