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In , Poe's narrator confesses to the brutal murder of his wife, in detail, blaming the black cat. In this story we see how human emotions and actions can be stretched beyond the limits of morality. The Black Cat raises questions of not only the character's sani ....

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.... to say that his peers made fun of him because he was so soft hearted and an avid animal lover. With the narrator's love for animals I can relate for I also had a great love for animals and nature when I was growing up; although I never completely grew out of it, I don't have quite the passion I used to. Poe takes his characters from one extreme to the other. For example, his narrator in “The Black Cat” grew up a softhearted pansy, so much so that he was made fun of and mocked. Then in his adulthood he drastically changed for the worse, to the point where he hated and was annoyed by his most favored pet, Pluto and Pluto's successor. With these ....