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Alcohol Abuse In The Black Cat By Edgar Allen Poe

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Alcohol abuse lead to mental illness, and potentially permanent brain damage. In ¨The Black Cat¨ the narrator shows how mentally insane he is by trying to convince the reader that he isn't. Even though the Narrator admits to being an alcoholic in the story, Poe shows in the story that the narrator is mentally insane with and without alcohol by killing his wife. In the story The Black Cat, Edgar Allen Poe shows his hate and love for cats when he is insane. The narrator used to love the black cat when he was younger, as he began to consume more alcohol his beloved cat started to annoy him. The more he drank the more violent and mentally unstable he became. He states “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original
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