复旦大学：《英美短篇小说 British and American Short Stories》教学课件（PPT）Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

The black Cat Edgar Allan Poe

1 The Black Cat -----Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe My Reading EXperiences The black cat Discussion

2 Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat My Reading Experiences Discussion

Literary style and themes Gothic Questions of death physical signs; the effects of decomposition concerns of premature burial; the reanimation of the dead mourning Poe suffered from the deleterious effects of alcohol consumption throughout his life

3 Literary style and themes: Gothic • Questions of death • physical signs; • the effects of decomposition; • concerns of premature burial; • the reanimation of the dead; • mourning “” Poe suffered from the deleterious effects of alcohol consumption throughout his life

The black Cat"is first printed on August 19 1843, The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator it's a story about domestic violence and brutal murder It's the death-row confession of nameless man who destroys himself, his wife, and his pets The black cat

4 The Black Cat • "The Black Cat" is first printed on August 19, 1843, • The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator • it's a story about domestic violence and brutal murder • It's the death-row confession of nameless man who destroys himself, his wife, and his pets

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#1 Mellow kind Cut out one of the cat's eye

6 #1 Mellow & Kind Cut out one of the cat’s eye

#2 House burns down ⊙()|0 Ist like Pluto Hangs pluto from a tree killing him

7 France Telecom Group confidential #2 Hangs Pluto from a tree, killing him House burns down Looks just like Pluto

#3 When the cat follows the man and his wife down to the cellar of the old house they have to live in, he tries to kill it with an axe His wife stops him and he kills her instead walling up her body in the cellar

8 When the cat follows the man and his wife down to the cellar of the old house they have to live in, he tries to kill it with an axe. “” His wife stops him and he kills her instead walling up her body in the cellar #3

He hits the wall behind which the dead body is hidden The voice of the cat responds and the police tear down the wall and find the body with the black cat sitting on its head

9 “” The voice of the cat responds, and the police tear down the wall and find the body, with the black cat sitting on its head. #4

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