Part one of term paper
The Destructive Power of Guilt Guilt and remorse are emotions that are often experienced by humans in general, and the emotional and physical response to these emotions can be very powerful and misleading. In "the ", Edgar Allen Poe spins a wondrously horrific plot that consists of a quilt deranged man driven to persecute the object of his ...

Part two of term paper
... demented feelings of guilt compulsively drive the narrator of the story to brutally slay his companion cat. After the man removes Pluto's eye with a knife, he is remorseful, but his feeling of guilt quickly manifests itself as irritation (para. 9). The cat's fear of the man is a constant reminder of the horrible deed that he has performed, and he begins to project his hatred of self onto his disfigured cat. As his notions of remorse further deteriorate his unsound mind, he destroys the object ...