5/9/2023 0 Comments The black cat 1843![]() First draft (pen on corrugated cardboard)ģ. ![]() But the very same night, his house burns down. Although declaring that he loves animals, the man becomes an alcoholic and eventually in a fit of rage, he kills the cat. Note the numerous subtle references to mortality in the background. The Black Cat (1843) The Black Cat is the story of a man and his pet, a giant black cat named Pluto. The story is told by the murderer himself, the. The cat has absolute power.Ī guilty man’s fear and rage reappear in a more recent drawing, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ – it is a popular theme in Poe’s revenge stories. First published on the front page of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post in August 1843, The Black Cat is one of Poe’s famous murder tales. These are essentially two demonic figures, one human and quite mundane in his inhumanity, the other with a cold intelligence suggesting much greater power, which makes the man’s fury impotent. I made an effort to emphasise the man’s utter scorn for life, with an expression of fear and rage. ![]() Illustration based on Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ (1843), depicting the cruel narrator’s face-off with the supernatural Black Cat. ![]()
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