Реферат: The Black Cat What Goes Around Comes

around the animals neck,”(82) leading the readers to join the madness and

believe that this was the same cat that Poe had savagely destroyed earlier that

same day.

The author describes his need to replace the animal in order to feel

peace and after doing so, he finds himself once again feeling a abhorrence

toward the animal. He writes “but gradually-very gradually- I came to look upon

it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as

from the breath of a pestance”(83). Poe uses imagery to describes his disgust

with the cat when he states “that like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one

of its eyes,”(83) he now wanted to destroy this animal as well. Poe illustrates

the change of character he has experience since the beginning of the story only

now he has gone beyond the madness that has consumed him many times. He writes

“evil thoughts becomes my sole intimates-the darkest and most evil of

thoughts”(84).

The author uses more imagery when he writes the final abominable act of

evil. Poe confesses to the reader about the murder of his wife when he states ?

goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm

from her grasp and buried the ax in her brain?(84). He explains how he disposes

of the body in detail and describes the relief he feels when he writes “I

soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my

soul”(85). Poe informs the reader of his little remorse when he states” my

happiness was supreme, and the guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but

little”(85).

The author leads the reader to the final plateau of suspension when he

dramatizes the conclusion of the story. He explains the sounds he heard in

detail when the mystery unfolds regarding the missing cat he had not seen or

heard from since the murder. He writes “like the sobbing of a child, and then

quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous

and inhuman-a howl-a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as