On The Perverness and A morbid Character from Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
浅谈爱伦坡《黑猫》中的邪念以及病态人格
班级： 0908 班
姓名： 王茜
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2012年4月
内容摘要
美国作家爱伦·坡的作品是以怪诞、恐怖等因素为其创作特色。在其经典短篇小说《黑猫》中,探究人的内心世界，展示人格中被忽视的病态。"黑猫"作为监视与操控人类罪恶的魔鬼,反
映人类内心以及理智的崩溃。人类在这种邪恶与内疚中徘徊，并最终因这种病态人格而毁灭。
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关键词：黑猫 冲突 病态 邪念 毁灭
ABSTRACT
The works of the American author Allan Peo is famous for its absurd and terriable.The black cat aims at explore the human’s internal soul to show the morbidity which neglected by people.The black cat acts at a devil to guard and control human beings.It reflect the collasp of human’s psyclogy and reason.The people struggle and struggle between evil and guilt.But finally destoried by this kind of morbid human nature.
KEY WORDS: The black cat Conflict Morbidity Perverness
Destruction
Contents
I. Introduction
1.1 Introduction of Allan Peo
1.2 Definition of Perverness
II. Psychological conflict
2.1 A Drinking Problem
2.2 Pluto is Murdered
2.3 The confliction of the two black cat
2.3.1 evil of the first cat
2.3.2 guilt of the cond cat
2.4 The Perfect Crime
2.5 The narrator is a little too confident .
III. Conclusion
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On The Perverness and A morbid Character from Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
I. Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a study in lf-delusion, in which the narrator's mind acts as a distorting prism. This essay aims at analyze the narrator's mind into good and evil components, thus interpreting the story as an exploration of the process of moral disintegration.Through analyze the narrator’s phychological confliction,we can get an important n---spirit of PERVERSENESS. A human being has a perver,wicked side that can goad him into committing evil deedss.The narrator says it was this inner demon that brought about his downfall.
In this paper,through the comparison between the evil and guilt,through analyze the changes of the narrator,I want to introduce the people a kind of morbid character.I want people can pay more attention to this perverness.
1.1 Introduction of Allan Peo
Edgar Allan Poe was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and playwright. He also invented the modern detective story. Poe was born as Edgar Poe in Boston on January 19, 1809. Poe's parents pasd away when he was very young. Therefore, he was taken in by a couple called the Allans, who gave him his middle name. Poe's relationship with the Allans became difficult while he was at university. Eventually, he left school and joined the military.
Poe then went to live with his aunt and later married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. His first book of poetry was published in 1827, and in 1835, Poe became editor of the "Southern Literary Mesnger." There, he began to write essays and literary criticis
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In 1845, Poe published the very successful poetry collection "The Raven and Other Poems." Sadly, Virginia died not long after that, and Poe's state of mind became unstable. Not much is known about Poe's death in 1849. He was found unconscious in the street and died at the hospital shortly after. Even so, Edgar Allan Poe's imaginative works have had a great impact on English literature.
1.2 Definition of Perverness
A human being has a perver,wicked side that can goad him into committing evil deedss.The narrator says it was this inner demon that brought about his downfall.
Who has not, a hundred times, found himlf committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than becau he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely becau we underst
and it to be such? This spirit of perverness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itlf -- to offer violence to its own nature -- to do wrong for the wrong's sake only -- that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute.
II. Confliction of Narrator
2.1 A Drinking Problem
The narrator tells us that as a kid the he was a kind, nsitive animal lover. We also learn that he and his wife had had "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat". The cat, of cour, is Pluto. The conflict begins to unfold when the man describes the way his personality changed for the wor when he started drinking heavily, veral years after Pluto became his pet. The conflict is within the narrator's home, between himlf and his wife and pets, who he begins to abu, physically and verbally, except for Pluto. I think this change is inherent of him.We can not define the narrator is evil or kind.
2.2 Pluto is Murdered
One night,the narrator drink a lotm he cuts the cat's eye out, and then he hangs him from the tree in his garden – leaving the body there when he goes to sleep. This definitely complicates things for the narrator. When the narrator does this,he feels a more than fiendish malevolence,gin-nurtured,thrilled every fibre of his frame .But when the reason return with him,he experience a ntiment half of horror,half of remor,for the crime of which he have been guilty.
