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The Black Cat: Tragic Consequences of Betrayal

Follow the transformation of a gentle young man into a violent drunkard as his pets, marriage, and friends bear the brunt of his temperamental changes and escalating cruelty, culminating in a mysterious cat's chilling act of revenge.

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The Black Cat: Tragic Consequences of Betrayal

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  1. The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe

  2. The Narrator as a Youth /Young Man • Personality: Tenderness of heart • Disposition: Docile, gentle, humane • Friends: Had some; they joked about his tender-heartedness

  3. Early Issues He MISTRUSTED PEOPLE • even as a young man • thought animals were more trustworthy!

  4. The Narrator as a Youth/Young Man • Marriage: Wife had the same likes as he did, esp. for animals • Pets: Birds, goldfish, dog, rabbit, monkey, cat

  5. Alcohol Changes in the Narrator • Personality • Disposition • Friends • Marriage • Pets

  6. Narrator and Wife He treated her with • Intemperate language • Personal violence

  7. Narrator & Pluto

  8. FIRE!

  9. I approached and saw, as if graven in bas relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat.

  10. After the Fire Changes in Lifestyle

  11. After the Fire • The Second Cat

  12. A Wife’s Revenge? • Women & marriage in early 1800s • Power of suggestion • Repressed/dulled guilt

  13. Final Downfall

  14. A Cat’s Revenge?

  15. What Goes Around Comes Around

  16. Poe, Catarina, and Virginia

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