The Black Cat by the lord of horror Edger Allan
Have you read a story which mad your hair freeze in white from fear and worry? If it is yes, that means that you absolutely heard about The Black Cat by the lord of horror Edger Allan Poe whom is without doubt the master of Gothic stories at the 19th Century.Therefore, by summarizing this story, the reader will get a plenty of space to remember the story's events and to highlight more about, what is typical for a gothic story.
In the beginning Mr and Mrs Groper were a great couple with the same passion to raise animals, a decent life and a new pet (Pluto) to their family, which mad them more happy. Furthermore, the black cat was so friendly and it had the best position in Mr Groper's heart. However, as a result of his problems with alcohol Mr Groper suffered a radical alteration in his moral and mentality for the worse, one day he stabbed the black cat in its eye and in another day he hung Pluto on a tree although it did not make anything that really worth to punish it in this way.
In the same day after he had killed Pluto he woke up from sleep by the cry of fire which distorted his house except of one wall which a figure of huge cat with rope about its neck was drawn on it. After those incidents Mr Groper found a cat which was very similar to Pluto but with a splotch of white hair in its breast. However, he took it home with him and every thing was good until the fair, nightmares, and the splotch of the white hair that started to take a form of hang rope on the breast of the new cat, increasing the madness in his brain,spatially while the alcohol was effecting him.
In the end Mr Groper could not prevent his fair and uncertainty from making another sin, because he killed his wife, and in cool blood concealed her body in a wall of a cellar in his home. Although, he had no problem to lie at the police about what really had happened to her.However the voice of his wife that day in front of the police was enough evidence against him, and yes with help of the cat he will die the next day.
The gothic stories in general explain why the main characters act in a horrific way with unbelievable amount of hideous events of killing, mental problems, etc. For example what Mr Groper said explaining the murder of Pluto "hung it because I knew it had loved me"
Furthermore, the usage of the first person (I) here is definitely a main feature in a gothic story, for instance "I blush, I burn, I shudder" to help the reader to identify with the main character, while dark and gloomy setting (the cellar where Mrs Groper was killed in the night) with mysteries and frightening creatures, which are responsible for the worry and the unusual events, as the new cat and the blaze in Mr Groper's house.
In conclusion, the reflection of the pain and the unhappiness in his storyThe Black Cat that Edger Allan Poe had lived in the reality when he was a child, from the lost of his wife, to the hug love to animals, all of that demonstrate to us how was it ruthlees to be a writer at the19th century.
Sources:
1-http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zyp72hv
2-http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-gothic
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