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Essay on Black Cat (PDF)

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Added on  2021-06-18

Essay on Black Cat (PDF)

   Added on 2021-06-18

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Running head: ESSAY ANALYSISEssay AnalysisName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
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1ESSAY ANALYSISIn the essay, a layered reading of the famous short story The Black Cat by EdgarAllan Poe has been attempted to fathom the literary meanings as well as the countless numbers of interpretation that can be constructed after a thorough and critical reading of the story. Inthis essay two new perspectives have been offered to the story, psychological and gothic inorder to determine the transparent nature of the story and its openness to interpretations.Thesis Statement: The Black Cat is not merely a story of horror but the workings of a guiltyconscience. The essay in three sections would demonstrate how adroitly the story assembleselements in order to deliver a different elucidation of the reading.In the short story the psyche of the narrator is portrayed with the help ofsymbols and images of cat, physical annihilation and deliberate savagery.The Black Cat by Poe contains a deeper psychological meaning apart from its surfacereading appears as a tale of hatred and perversion is actually a psychoanalytic reading of aman’s descend to madness and dark terrains of the heart (Poe). The repeated appearance ofthe cats can be seen as an allusion to the degenerated psyche enwrapped with guiltyconscience that compels the narrator to associate the cat subconsciously at every crime scene(Freud). His unflinching cruelty on Pluto, on a deeper reading, can be interpreted asdisplacement of emotions as theorized by Freud who stated that it is frequent in the realm ofpsychoanalyses to encounter cases where emotions that re-surface due to repressedexperiences gets executed on another person or creature due to repressed impulses in the firstplace. The protagonist The Black Cat can be viewed as a victim of psychological tortureswho is whimpering due to repressed anger in his subconscious mind. Since he is unable tochannelize it at the right place, he bestows his irritation and frustration on his pet cat Pluto onwhom he agreed to have had a feeling of intense affection bereft of cruelty. His projection ofperverse cruelty and sudden shift in his behavioral pattern is a precise depiction oftransference.
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