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Insanity In Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat

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In the “the black cat” by Edgar Allen Poe, the gothic fiction/ horror short story is about an untrustworthy narrator and how he relates to alcohol taking over his life, leading him to murder his cat, Pluto, and his wife. In the guilt of killing his cat, he buys a new one but kills in in anger. Some might say he was just insane but others would argue that he was guilty. From what happened, he was guilty by insanity. Because he hung his cat and murdered his wife, he definitely committed a crime, but I feel as if he could not tell what was right and what was wrong at the time. People who suffer from insanity cannot tell why they are doing the things that they are doing even if they know if it’s wrong. “Who has not, a hundred times, found himself
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