Insanity In The Black Cat

The Black Cat It is evident that the narrator is haunted by a supernatural force. The becoming of the narrator’s insanity is from alcohol. The cat, however, is the supernatural force that is present in the story. Although many people believe otherwise, there are more pieces of the story that prove the supernatural. The cat has always been thought of a witch. The narrator stated about his wife, “in speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition… which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.” The narrator, on the other hand, is pretty strange. He lives a good childhood with many pets. This brings him to love pets more that humans. He gets happily married to his wife and lives with many pets. As the narrator said, “I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets.” One of which is an all-black cat named Pluto. The narrator loved this cat more than and pet he owned and his own wife. Then he began to drink alcohol. This is the part that breaks the story into the supernatural. The narrator doesn’t begin to go insane until he drinks alcohol. Then, the uprising occurs.

The narrator comes home intoxicated every night and wildly exploit his pets. After a while, this goes further to the beating of his wife. He beats his wife without a care, without a thought. Then, the craziest thing you can imagine… he beats the one he loves more than any soul in the world. Pluto. Not only beats, but cuts on of his eyes. He describes in the story,” I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from its socket!” Not because he was intoxicated though, but because the cat dug his teeth into the human’s