The cat Pluto was just being it’s own normal self like any other cat but he scratched the narrator and the injustice narrator decided its punishment should be death by hanging from a tree in his property. Erin Morgenstern tells revenge by a conversation with the man in the grey suit and Hector. As the Circus goes on the man in the grey suit approaches Hector and states “An innocent man died here tonight” (Morgenstern 383). Which is true and very wicked for a circus that did not start that way. Things have gotten way out of hand and innocent people are dying left and right, but the show must go on and that is indeed what it does.
This does not last and in a night of drunken stupor the protagonist maims Pluto, cutting one of his eyes out. In recounting the deed, the narrator himself states, “I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.” The narrators following descriptions of “the poor beast,” contain within them a tone of shame, and in turn illustrate a man ravaged by
So when the narrator does all those horribly things to him and all this weird stuff start happening, it makes the reader nervous to know if Pluto could actually be the one causing this stuff to
Next, Poe develops suspense in the black cat through the hanging of Pluto. The narrator is unbalanced and insane, yet hangs Pluto with full intent by the limb of a tree. The narrator states, Quote 1 “hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes with the bitterest remorse at my heart” (Poe 2). The violence that the narrator displays with the hanging of Pluto enroots anxiety for the perusal to know.
he continues his explanation with “My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition. I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my way” (Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, page 532). In the beginning, the narrator maltreats the animals and even his wife, but not Pluto, he has a special connection with Pluto. Poe’s stories often show the narrator going mad and gaining a desire to hurt someone or something.
In the Poem “The Black Cat” He says” But my disease grew upon me --for what disease is like Alcohol! --and at length, even Pluto, who was now becoming old, and consequently somewhat peevish --even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper”. (Poe 1)
The narrator has major issues Thisunnamed character is an abusive bully and a murderHe made home a living hell for his wife and petsHe reveal his psychological from nice to villian. The narrator faced a problem which is the PLUTO CAT as he seems according to the narrator,it's the cats fault that the demestic scene of the story ulitimately turned so foul. After he became alcoholic,he became more nervous and he cut his cat's eye,so from this point the events started. And he felt with guilty. The narrator begins his story with the declaration that he isn't -mad-,and
By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.” (9) This displays the narrator’s inner feelings of hatred towards an innocent and loving animal, which only reinforce the fact that he is deranged. It is revealed to the reader that the narrator has gone from a logical, loving man, to a vile, cruel one with a withered mind and a rotten heart. The narrator’s actions help to establish his personality as well. His maiming and eventual murder of Pluto show his increased detachment and sadism.
In this section, the narrator introduces us to his cat named Pluto and a wife. They both love animals and has a great quantity of pets. Poe writes “During this time, my personality completely changed for the worse. I am ashamed to admit it. This change happened thanks to the help of the Demon Alcohol”(Poe 11).
In the gruesome short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe a nameless narrator tells his story of his drunken and moody life before he gets hung the next day. The intoxicated narrator kills his favorite cat, Pluto and his wife with an axe. Soon enough, the narrator gets caught and there he ends up, in jail. Although, most readers of “The Black Cat” have argued the narrators insanity, more evidence have shown that he is just a moody alcoholic with a lousy temper.
His alcoholism causes him to be abusive and eventually leads him cutting Pluto’s eye out and hanging him. The same night of Pluto’s hanging, the man’s house burns down, where he sees the impression of a giant cat with a noose around his neck on one of the walls of the burnt house. Eventually he gets another black cat with some white fur. He starts to hate this cat, so he also kills it.
Both cats are abnormally large, black, missing an eye, and extremely “sagacious (64).” The only notable difference being the white spot on the second cat’s chest, which eventually turns into gallows, reminding the narrator of how he brutally killed the first cat. The cats name, Pluto, is a reference to the Greek god of death, representing just how uncontrollable the second cat is. The earlier cat’s innocence likeability allows it to be the victim of the narrator’s actions, as it represents the forced submission of women, slave, and child to man. The second cat, on the other hand has an annoying, almost omnipresent nature, allowing it to exercise complete psychological control over the main character.
The cat was friendly to the narrator and vice versa. The narrator asked to purchase him yet the landlord had no knowledge of this cat's existence. The reason for this could be that the cat waited to appear only until the narrator came along, possibly as a reincarnation of Pluto. Reincarnation of Pluto becomes a very possible theory, not only for the fact that Pluto is the god of the dead; but on the next morning the new black cat has lost one of its eyes, just like Pluto did. This in turn causes the narrator to hate the cat and lose his composure once again.
It is also an unusual situation, because in the story, after he hanged the cat and went to sleep, his house suddenly burns out of nowhere (“I was aroused…” | Paragraph 10), and the members of the household, including the man, successfully escaped, and pluto, the cat he hanged, has resurrected into another black cat (“It was a black
The cat acts like a symbol of the human conscience. After the man gouged one of the cat’s eyes, he says, “I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty” (Poe). The man feels that the cat sees that changes (being alcoholic, change in his behavior) that is happening to him. He thought removing one of the cat’s eyes would be better since the cat won’t fully see what the man has become. Even with one eye, the cat sees what the cat’s owner really is.
