Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat, as well as The Cask of Amontillado, are both well known stories written by Edgar Allen Poe. ... Because both The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado fit into this category, many aspects of these stories can be compared and contrasted. ## The Black Cat is a story of a man that grew up with a love of many animals as his companions. He and his wife shared this love of animals and had a cat, Pluto, for a household pet. ... YOU FINISH THIS PART WITH A SUMMARY OF THE STORIES ## SUMMARY OF THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO ## The first aspect one may consider when comparing these two works of fiction, is point of view. The Black Cat is written from the narrator’s point of view. ... The Cask of Amontillado is written from the perspective of Montressor, a man who vows revenge against Fortunato so that he may support his time- honored family motto. ... This perspective, as with the perspective of The Black Cat, is used to intensify the effect of shock and horror. ... The Black Cat is told by the narrator, as he is in jail awaiting his execution for the murder of his wife. The setting of the story that the narrator tells, as a flashback, is set in his home, a much different setting from that of The Cask of Amontillado. ... In The Black Cat, the main character is a man that grew up with and was very fond of animals. He was especially fond of his cat, Pluto. He kills the cat and brutally murders his wife. ... This character is very similar to the main character, Montressor, in The Cask of Amontillado. ... Both the narrator of The Black Cat and Montressor, are men that commit horrible, unforgivable crimes and feel no guilt after doing so. ... The Black Cat is one of Poe’s most powerful horror stories that stops just short of total disgust. ... The reader may also infer that this man is superstitious due to his reference to the fact that his wife made “…frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, that all black cats are witches in disguise.