Edgar Allan Poe Black Cat Analysis

Understanding Poe in depth Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who wrote in a dark romantic tone. As a writer he wasn’t as successful as he was after his death. Poe 's short stories were based on gory self humour. Poe had many tragedies in his life. Most of the people he loved in his life left him or died. Due to these tragedies Poe 's stories were often dark. Poe creates a unity of effect in each one of his stories. Some of his short stories leave readers questioning what will happen next and others stories leave readers asking themselves: “did he really just write such a story”. Through Poe 's cold hearted tone and first person narrative, he sets a dark mood.
Poe creates a dark mood on his short story “Black Cat”. Poe uses a cold hearted tone when he talks about killing the cat and his wife. It is cold hearted because he does not hesitate once while writing such cruel things. The narrator of the short story says “hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin”(110) to prove that he could do absolutely anything he wanted. Despite knowing how harmful his …show more content…
Poes uses a cold hearted tone in his writing when he has the narrator say “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man”(76), in this phrase the narrator tells us how he is determined to take an innocent man 's life who had done absolutely nothing to him just because he wanted to and he believed it was the right thing to do. Poe also sets a dark mood when in the first person, he has the narrator say “I admit the deed”(78) , he admits that he has done such a horrible deed but he still calls the heart he ripped out “hideous”. He has no shame whatsoever and he does not feel guilty for the crime he had committed. Instead he is proud of his actions and does not regret, which sets a dark mood because it shows how morbid his intentions