He would come home at night extremely drunk and one night, Pluto was trying to ignore him because he didn’t like the way he was. The narrator got really mad and took out a knife and cut out one of Pluto’s eyes. One morning the narrator woke up and took the black cat by the neck and hung him on a tree limb. The next day the house burnt down which I think is karma telling the narrator to watch out because something might happen soon. The narrator was out one night drinking with his buddies when he saw another black cat, but this black cat had a strip of white going across
It’s the kind of dream that wakes you try and stay awake after, because you know it’s waiting there for you behind your closed eyelids. (McNamee 11) This quote illustrates that Duncan is uncomfortable with what happened. The nightmares of the drowning girl keeps coming back to him because he did not save her. Just like Duncan, in The Penance, Octavia feels uncomfortable because of what he has done. He killed the three children’s cat because Octavia thought the cat was eating the chickens.
In Poe’s “The Black Cat,” the narrator vacillates between remorse and uncaring in regards to his atrocities. He suppresses his guilt several times, and this suppression is manifested in his entombment of his wife within the walls of his basement. However, in the final paragraph of the story, the cat reveals his atrocity. It seems that a similar suppression is occurring in Melville’s Benito Cereno as well. Delano vacillates between seeing the situation on the ship for what it really is and suppressing his suspicion.
Dracula stands for Satan, and that stands for whatever is evil and bad. He hates goodness and tries to perpetuate evil while at the same time keeping an almost charming since about himself. However despite the vampires charm and strangely enticing appearances their wickedness could not be hidden from the band of men. Even beautiful Lucy, when she becomes a vampire, is hated by this band of men, despite the fact they were in love with her before. This is clearly a battle between the two most significant supernatural beings in the Christian Faith.
Francesco Gallardo Mr. McFarlin H English 10, Period 5 2010 September 26 The Cats of Ulthar: Morality on Spotlight Fear is a very powerful thing, sometimes so powerful that it prevents some from doing what is right. Sometimes it takes karma to act against wrongdoings. In H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Cats of Ulthar”, a short story about a young Egyptian boy who curses and kills the his cat’s murderers for revenge, the idea of consequence is discussed in thorough detail, as well as the idea that fear can hinder positive action against crime and misdeeds. Lovecraft argues that fear should not stop someone from doing the right thing, and that one can only get away with evil for so long without consequence, and uses dark mood, irony, and foreshadowing to show this.
Comparing Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart Two examples in which the black cat and tell tale heart compare are the eye and police involvement. Black cat – the eye; the narrator came back home quite drunk, he forcefully grasps the cat and got bitten on the hand and out of fierce anger he grabs his penknife and cuts out an eye from the cat. “I took from my waist coat – pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!” (Poe para 7). Tell tale heart – the eye; the narrator was driven by a fear for a pale blue eye of an old man. “I think it was his eye!
Brom Bones is possessive of Katrina Van Tassel in both versions. In the book, Bones throws Ichabod Crane out after he proposes to Katrina. Similarly, in the movie, Bones threatens to kill Ichabod like he did Palmer. In both the movie and the book, a jealous Brom Bones pretends to be the Headless Horseman in order to drive Ichabod out of Sleepy Hollow. Another point of similarity is the humor.
Paul Edgecombe and Brutus Howell (other prison guards) greatly dislike Percy Wetmore as he is arrogant and cocky and mistreats the prisoners. Percy calls the prison “a bucket of piss to drown rats in” and he believes he has authority over the other guards as his aunt is the governor’s wife and so looks down on everyone else. To ensure a quick death in the electric chair, a wet sponge is placed on the head to direct the electricity straight to the brain. During Eduard Delacroix’s execution Percy decides to purposely not wet the sponge causing Delacroix to endure a long, painful death. An aural technique used to create a strongly negative mood in the scene of Eduard Delacroix’s execution was sound and music.
Has he treated the cat badly in the past? Does the cat know that he is capable of inflicting? The cat seems scared of the boy perhaps he has abused the cat in the past and it has run away. Or maybe the cat senses the boy is evil. The boy shows violence “I pour the goldfish down the bog.
It is evident when he states, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been quality of a crime” (Frankenstein 34). Victor had become obsessed because he was growing apart from the world and put all his energy into his monster. In the same manner, Macbeth’s ambition also became obsessive. In the beginning Macbeth had no plan to betray King Duncan and to take over the throne. However, all this changed when the three witches planted the seed of betrayal in him and when Lady Macbeth encouraged him to kill King Duncan and become king.