THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe Summary & Analysis

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In this video I'm talking about "The Black Cat," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. If you're looking for more information about Poe's life or some of his others stories or poems, check out my full playlist: • Homework Help: Edgar A...
SUMMARY 0:34
ANALYSIS
Narrator's mindset 9:32
The first cat 10:31
Alcoholism 10:50, 14:30
Domestic violence 11:40
The first cat dies 12:40
Views on God 14:03, 17:04, 20:37
The house fire 14:30
The new cat 15:48
The murder 17:59
Getting caught 19:36
Links to other stories 21:38
Hope that helps! If you have questions or you were interested in a different story or author, let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can do. Good luck!
The Humane Society of the United States offers information on the links between animal abuse and domestic violence. For more information, visit their website: www.humanesociety.org/resourc...
Poe, Edgar A. "The Black Cat." The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, The New American Library, Inc., 1960, pp.103-112.
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@dougronald561 3 года назад

I actually never thought of your point that the narrator had an axe and masonry equipment handy just at the point when he killed his wife. He obviously was prepared for her murder, and it was more intentional than he led the reader to believe.

@catherinecao4810 2 года назад

Maybe he stuck the cat in the tomb as well. Maybe he was looking for it to ensure that it never escaped. Maybe he cut its eye out as well. He only noticed that the eye was missing the morning after he brought it home.

@placebo5466 Год назад

I googled the "darkest" Poe short story and read this. Man, that was a messed up story lol.

@mynameissiddharth 2 года назад

This story shares several similarities with another story by Poe called "The Tell-Tale Heart". What is important to understand is that "The Black Cat" does indicate the prevalence of the paranormal unlike the other one, which dealt mainly with madness, hallucination and a guilty conscience.

@harmonlanager2670 Год назад

I like that it seems to be the inversion of a typical ghost story where the narrator is not a believer but rather skeptical, yet his ‘logical explanation’ is so far fetched that it forces one to consider the possibility of the supernatural

@catherinecao4810 2 года назад

There’s a short animated film called the “Riddle of the Black Cat” Basically, the narrator is on trial, and another Poe character, C Auguste Dupin, is the prosecutor. It offered an interesting interpretation on what happened, as the detective pointed out somethings in the book that I didn’t notice before.

@juliapark4611 Месяц назад

한국 방송통신대에서 그 재미없는 영문학수업중 재미있게 읽던 블랙캣을 만나니 반갑네요 .1800년대에 이런 소설있었나 놀라웠고 당시 Poe 에 대해서 다시 찾아봤었어요

@brianmorrow5350 10 месяцев назад

For some reason, the first time I read this, I was blindsided when he brought down the axe. I was shocked way more than the narrator. I think your suspicion of pre-meditation is on point..........

@radhikasapkota995 3 года назад

I love the way you explain this story; Very helpful for my assignment. thank you so much!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

You're welcome! I'm so glad it was helpful!

@FarmersAreDummies 2 года назад

Meh..

@jonathancato3608 2 месяца назад

Dude tysm for your Red Death video, went above and beyond especially at the end all the biblical points you made.

@vgpurple6887 Год назад

No English homework...54. Trying to read more. Good for my aging brain. 😀

@eddahmanizouhair 2 года назад

How come you only have this small amount of subscribers ? You definitely deserve more! Thank you so much for this amazing analysis!

@Cynyanko 3 года назад

Amazing analysis, thank you. Also love your personality.

@tugatgalut Год назад

It's a pleasure to listen to Carrie Hoover's wisdom 👍 Even though i did not like this particular story I decided to subscribe. It is my hope that Carrie will read some of my stories some day 💔💔

@tomobrien563 8 месяцев назад

Carrie….your EAP vids are fantastic! I’ve developed a whole new level of insight and appreciation for his stories because of you. Thank you so much!!

@camilleobcemia4643 5 месяцев назад

What is the Theme of the story?

@CarrieHoover 4 месяца назад

That’s so kind of you! Thank you so much!

@englishwithmikemouad.8824 2 года назад

thank you so much, your analysis is really helpful. there are many things you mentioned that I didn't pay attention to while reading.

@deborahpablo786 2 года назад

Yes very helpful! This gives me so much to work with🙏🏽🙏🏽

@MarcvdMeulen Год назад

Clear and comprehensive, thank you for sharing! Great for people like me who don't need it for school, but just want to dive a little deeper into the story :)

@alfredsolari9172 Год назад

Thank you very much indeed for such a straightforward analysis. You are cystal clear and professional.

@studyingpeach6691 3 года назад

Thank you so much for the amazing analysis! Helped me so much in my course work.

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

@bobsquires4521 11 месяцев назад

I've owned three black cats. This is not a story for the faint of heart or for a cat person and makes me convinced I should have gone into law enforcement to set straight any of the morons who think they might get away with casual abuse of either their pets or their significant others blaming 'their daemons' or their alcohol use. Terrific analysis and fine video - thank you very much for posting.

@angelic25heart 2 месяца назад

I thought the same thing!

@majdahilali3410 3 года назад

OMG! I LOVE YOUR ANALYSIS SO MUCH .THANKS

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@martashaza6486 Год назад

amazing analysis. exactly what i needed

@4eyeoptics856 8 месяцев назад

Im really enjoying you summaries. I enjoy reading the stories and listenimg to your reviews.

@syvandao8243 3 года назад

Love your video, thank you so much!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching! I hope it was helpful!

@cosma8441 2 года назад

omg this was so helpful!! actually more entertaining to follow than the actual story, thank you!

@CarrieHoover 2 года назад

I’m so glad you liked it!

@englishwithmikemouad.8824 2 года назад

thank you so much for this analysis.

@oliwiakupczyk 3 года назад

this was amazing, thank you so much!!!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@lawstintranslation Год назад

this was an amazing analysis, thank youuu!!

@adrianveidt3600 2 года назад

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@FeelingMotivated_03 Год назад

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@juliiiiiiiiii6119 3 года назад

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@MrMicahthemagician Год назад

That was fantastic. Thank you 🙏

@nnn.nnn2 2 года назад

Thank you this really helped me alot💖

@user-vw2wi2hs7n Год назад

Very good analysis : D

@solalabell9674 Год назад

One thing I’d like to mention at 18:50 axes were very much commonplace especially around a fireplace (which if I’m not mistaken is near where he covers the body) this is why there was a large amount of axe murders in that time period because they were commonly kept by most families so they were a weapon of convenience is the terminology if memory serves. I also don’t think that there was mortar given that it only took a few people prying to tear down the wall so it seems the bricks were simply laid dry. I do think it was a crime of passion without premeditation given the narrator has been shown to be extremely impulsive and violent for no reason obviously to the point of killing Pluto and hurting his wife before the axe just happened to be in his hand this time.

@d_rivadeneyra 9 месяцев назад

I agree, I think the narrator is laid out to be impulsive and irrational. I don't think he premeditated the murders, he just did them in his burst of anger. I also think that's what makes this story terrifying, how distorted his mind was to have this rage for no apparent reason.

@jalpatel7789 3 года назад

Thankyou so much this video was very helpful my rhetorical analysis essay. Keep it up.

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching! Good luck on your essay!

@ironmean5228 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!! You really help me from midterm crisis

@shoresofpatmos 3 года назад

There Also apears to be a link between psychopathy and animal cruelty. Children that Develop psychopathy often Show a tendency to animal cruelty in early stages of childhood.

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

It's a very disturbing element of Poe's story. I added a link to the Humane Society's page on domestic violence in the video notes.

@sharafsuhayl4439 2 года назад

This was very helpful for my exam I gotta sit for tomorrow! Thank You so much

@armandolandecho376 2 года назад

Really helpfull, thanks a lot miss

@maya_existing6273 Год назад

Thank you so much!

@user-iksssojhhhwhba 5 месяцев назад

What an excellent explanation! It helped me a lot. Thank you so much

@CarrieHoover 4 месяца назад

I’m so glad it was helpful!

@houneidabenmahidi6039 3 года назад

Amazing!!!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@MikeFrench101 3 года назад

My favorite Poe story is The Masque of the Red Death. I'd love to hear your thoughts and analysis on it!

@EnglishWithMrBakhri 3 года назад

Wow! What an amazing analysis! You deserve more followers, really!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

That's so kind of you! Thank you for watching!

@EnglishWithMrBakhri 3 года назад

You're very welcome! 😊 Best of luck in your noble mission!

@shakespearaamina9117 3 года назад

Thank you Carrie

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@dystopiafan580 Год назад

I have just read The black cat and one of the first thoughts that came to my mind was : ,,What if the second cat was never there? What if it was the symphtom of Delerium thremens and his guilt?" What do you think about this theory? There are a lot of cool theories about this story; one of them is that he frst killed his wife than the cat. You can find it online.

@Bella00011 6 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot this is very helpful ❤

@CarrieHoover 4 месяца назад

Thank you for watching!

@danielk4155 3 года назад

That's amazing. We read this story in american gothic fiction, and it's my fave!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

That sounds like a fun class! What else are you reading?

@danielk4155 3 года назад

@@CarrieHoover It was in 2013 at University of Missouri Kansas City. We read other poe, Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Plath, maybe Lovecraft, but my all time favorite was Norman Mailer, and especially I love the whole collection Dennis Johnson's Jesus' Son. Hey.. I wrote a gothic short story myself... Would you be able to find time to read it and basically let me know if it makes any sense?

@danielk4155 3 года назад

I wrote it in short stories class 2014, but I missed the day I had my review so I didn't get any feedback, it was the last day of class. I would like to know if it's worth trying to publish. It's gothic religious allegory kind of...

@danielk4155 3 года назад

@@CarrieHoover Are you a teacher or you just do this for fun? Mine is written from the coma/dream point of view, out of body lessons, etc. It's a trip. If you're a teacher, you are a good one. I dig it.

@danielk4155 3 года назад

@@CarrieHoover Poe is my hero... you may like it if nothing else, I don't need feedback. But I'd pay you if you did.

@PatrickPrejusa Год назад

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@juanadiaz6576 3 года назад

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@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

I hope it was helpful!

@cynthialuis5923 3 года назад

Thank you 🙏

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

You're welcome! I hope it was helpful!

@ayoubnokra5439 3 года назад

Thank you sou much that was really helpful I have exams next week please keep going I wish you all the best ❤❤❤

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Best of luck!

@mikib8980 Год назад

thank you so much

@liquidpuffin5267 3 года назад

I get a hint that the cat is a metaphor for the narrators conscience.

@laurasaur9 3 года назад

Omg! Thank this is SAVING MY SANITY for exams I can’t thank you ENOUGH💕

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

You're welcome! Good luck on your exams & thanks for watching!

@user-lz8uv1tb1p 3 года назад

Thanks for your efforts I study this topic at the total phase II English Department I am very agent but with a few words I have made it thanks for the Middle East in Iraq l hope speak about the story open window thank you

@hamadhys 2 года назад

Thank you for the analysis. I wonder if you have analysed Hemingway’s the short days of Mrs Mc Comber!

@yasmineyasmine8894 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@reri9832 3 года назад

I loved your analysis...this helped me with my exams✍🏻Thank you

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

I'm so glad! Thanks for watching!

@ganceanndullahan5361 9 месяцев назад

At least Pluto got a better name than H.P. Lovecraft's cat.

@nathanmiller1014 3 года назад

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@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Haha, thank you!

@tota2778 3 года назад

Super 😻♥️!

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@frederikschulp 3 года назад

Thank you so much, english is not my native language, and the grammar the writer used was pretty complicated. So I could be wrong about this, but I thought he sealed of his wife in the place where the chimney used to be.

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

The entire scene takes place in the cellar, but the speaker does choose the spot in the wall where a fireplace or false chimney used to be. One explanation is that, at one point, the cellar of the building may have been used as living space, but has since been converted to storage.

@shaolongchen 3 года назад

hey u just want to say thank you

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@footballscoutingreport 2 года назад

I’m so freaked out with her background and how the wall is so much of a different pattern than the rest.

@davemidua6138 2 года назад

Maybe she also covered something behind it?

@Jazz-dh2ds 2 года назад

@@davemidua6138 Perhaps a black cat?

@anshu1596 2 года назад

Who knows?

@Adlotuseater 3 года назад

Wow🌹❤️🙏

@user-up3tk2uv4r 4 месяца назад

I’ve just red this 3 times there wasn’t a wall with a cat outline on it and it was a knife not an axe I don’t understand I’m reviewing this for a college paper and your analysis of it has caused great confusion I have no idea what you read

@yennhiphamnguyen3918 Год назад

I really love your analysis, but I still have confused on who caused the fire on his house 🥹 is that himself?

@VDchacon 2 года назад

Why is it one of the darkest?!? Joking. But in all seriousness this was sooo dark. 😬 it doesn't help I love cats lol.

@benhuether5474 Год назад

Do the ghost stories of M.R. James 👻

@musicweirdo1 2 года назад

It's simply a cautionary tale of the horrors of alcoholism!!

@benhuether5474 Год назад

Do The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

@angelbonita 3 года назад

10:31

@purplemv2197 3 года назад

Can you please comment, the evidence on the story where he tells 'that this story is normalized and we all have done something like this' part?thxxxx

@CarrieHoover 3 года назад

The speaker tries to justify killing the cat by saying, "Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason then because he knows he should not?" The speaker is trying to normalize his actions by claiming that everyone has experienced those emotions. Also, by including the phrase "a hundred times," the speaker is attempting to minimize his actions. He is trying to reduce what he's done down to the level of cutting in line or hiding a sibling's toy. I hope that answers your question! Thank you for watching!

@amilyaaa9425 2 года назад

Please read first before watching this! Omg it’s crazy

@SimpleeTarot Год назад

The cat is his alcoholism.

@shaolongchen 3 года назад

bruh i wish i could see this video earlier

@user-up3tk2uv4r 4 месяца назад

Please explain

@kishanparmar4021 3 месяца назад

i try to english speaking but i cannot speak english, can you please gaide me?

@catherinecao4810 2 года назад

Fun Fact: sociopaths are known to show “fondness” for animals. It’s not really kindness or love, but a passing “oh, that’s cool” thing. Maybe the narrator was never a good person, and his alcoholism let him do whatever he wanted. Maybe his “confession” is him trying to manipulate the audience. He’s either likes using high flatulent language, or is condescending to us.

@jonathancato3608 2 месяца назад

If you consider the case of Dennis Reynolds yo, you're absolutely right. He shows fondness for cats many times in the show and he's clearly unhinged.

@catherinecao4810 2 года назад

Is it possible that the narrator is still drunk when all this is happening? Maybe the splotch on the wall looks like a cat because he’s drunk when he saw it. Maybe he’s having alcohol-induced blackouts, so his memory is a bit spotty. Maybe the white spot on the cat is changing because he’s drunk and his eyes are clouded from the tears.

@CarrieHoover 2 года назад

Absolutely; that's a really good idea! He could also be dealing with paranoia and/or hallucinations resulting from his continued alcoholism. Here's an abstract I found on alcohol-related psychosis: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459134/

@catherinecao4810 2 года назад

@@CarrieHoover Well, another of Poe’s narrators from the story “Ligeia” is an addict, so I guess it was a common choice for characters

@amilyaaa9425 2 года назад

859th subscriber who is going to be 860?

@tugatgalut Год назад

I admire Poe's poetry and short stories. However, 'The Black Cat' wasn't a story that I cherish or ever will because it involves murder. I could by no means sympathize with the storyteller. It hurts me when people hurt animals.