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Ø Critical note on the Poe’s short story of “The Black Cat”.
Name: Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai
Roll no: 12
Course : M.a Sem-3
Year:- 1216-17
Paper name: The American Literature
Professor’s name: Dr.Dilip Barad
Topic: Critical note on the Poe’s short
story of “ The Black Cat”.
Submitted by:Department of English, M .K. Bhavanagar University.
Ø Introduction:-
The short story of “The
black cat” written by Edgar Allan Poe who was the famous writer during his Age.
As his own life was that is represent in his work. As title suggests “The black
cat”, the cat is being spot light here and cause of mentality about
superstition ghost etc. The story ends with the question with superstition. The
narrator as unknown man expresses what happened with him due to the cat. Cat
plays main lead role as a pet because it can’t imagine The animistic life
Poe’s life is reflected by anonymous narrator’s life in this story. The story
starts from end and The narration is in flash back.
Ø Critical note on the Poe’s short story of “The Black Cat”.
In this story there are Three
character like The narrator and his wife
or The cat is major here from The beginning we come to know animals, with
various pet animals not with society. Therefore his life is disinterested and
as he said he has a tender heart and docility and humanity of his disposition.
And we come to know that he got more than pet animals by his parent from the
beginning of life-childhood. He has no friend only animals therefore we can say
that animistic life makes him disinterested and dissatisfied his tender heart
turns into evil and his intoxication comes in nature as well as pathetic with
such suppression after wards he habitual with animal and habitual to feed them
and care them. We can say that his mind set becomes like animal so he can’t
live normal life as society does.
The main part
of his pathetic life occurs because of parent’s hungriness of live, warmth,
care and so on what child wants towards parents, none of he got towards his
parents.
Another
addition in his life to make more sorrow able he got married early.
His wife also loved pet animal and they both brought more animal. Therefore
narrator’s dissatisfaction and pain become more-overflow. We can apply here
“More
is always Too much”
The phrase applies
on his life which result comes like
‘Men become alcoholic to hide something’
Rather than we
can say that,
“Superstition of life can harm while
starting to flow up especially due to alcohol. Because men also think that it
is the best weapon to hide and forget something.”
Narrator’s
alcoholic nature starts to harm all who lives with him and his lovely,favorite
pet-fullest his eye. The empty socate irritates narrator and to escape for the
guilty feeling he kills Pluto. Narrator’s wife also said that
“That
black cat as witches in disguise”
She
also followed ancestor’s view point, superstitions. Edgar Allan Poe also deemed
in that’s why it is reflected in his works.
When
the cat-Pluto another thought that he saws himself for a guilt but as the
phrase says,
“What
you leave up get more”
Narrator
thinks it’s like finished thing but superstition applies here he feels
emptiness in his life without Pluto and when he killed Pluto at the very same
night his homburg out of fire and narrator doesn’t deem in that but through
that narrator tries to make sure the reader about ghost. Now, narrator’s drear
into night more Pluto while he starting to find another Pluto. He find same and
he thinks incarnation of Pluto. Because the second Pluto comes with gallows
symbol which continues realized narrator’s deed the second Pluto absolutely
like first in everything but he doesn’t like narrator now the intense
relationship with Pluto is with narrator’s wife and Pluto’s behave towards author
like he comes with goal to take revenge with him Pluto frequently hurts him and
irritates him so we may say that,
“Evil mind can’t recover himself by
realizing his deed, but it turns into demoniacal in nature”
As it
is saying finally narrator becomes demoniacal in nature and mad and as he wants
to end of all evil feeling-escape for it he plans to kill Pluto and at the
underground of his house, instead kill Pluto he is killed his wife still he
wants to kill Pluto but he leaves up the place. It is said that
“When
luck turns into destruction, no one can save own self even”
Same
occurs with narrator he plastered his wife’s dead body in cellar’s wall. He
feels peace what he never before the all things express his mentality his
dissatisfaction, hunger of love and result is that why it is?
At the
end while police investigating about the assassination and nit to get even one
prove he is caught by own madness in nature as,
“I could get
from my heart”
The
police doubly searches for and Pluto cries at first muffled and broken like the
sobbing of a child then quickly swelling into one long loud and continuously
screaming half of horror and half of triumph such as might have arisen only out
of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the
demons the exult in the damnation.
The
narrator is caught by the cat and the expression of cat like with red extended
mouth and solitary eye of fire, set the hideous beast whose craft had seduced
the author into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned narrator to the
hangman. Finally narrator’s wife’s sentence proven by the cat and deed of author
himself.
Conclusion:-
In short, Poe is even
today remembered by the use of Gothic elements. He gave highly influence on
other gothic writers. His each and every short story came with new and
effective terror, fear and ghostly elements. Most of the Poe’s characters read
in psychological way. He is the feather on the height of American literature.
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