Revenge and Insanity in the Works of Poe

In Edgar Allan Poes The gun barrel of Amontillado and The swart Cat some(prenominal) short stories deal relatively with the same ideas on murder, exclusively their de small-armds is what makes all(prenominal) twaddle unique. The stories view very similar plots, and their characters both are dealing with diseases. In Poes short story The Black Cat the vote counter of the story is confessing to the law-breaking he has just committed. He is vent through the events that have conduct him to the point where he is in his life, ab step up to be executed. end-to-end the story we are shown how violent he can be. He is plagued by the disease of inebriation which has taken over his faculty to properly treat immature(prenominal) beings. He starts off by saying that he has evermore loved animals, which in detail is very ironic in nature seeing as he brutally stabs out his courts eye on a path of rage. This gay has gone(a) so cracked that later on he acquires a new cat he begins to see to it with his wifes statement, Black cats are witches in disguise. (pg. 1) This pertly claimed pet has caused the man to stamp out his wife and wall her up in the basement. A enormous difference to Poes separate story The Cask of Amontillado this man gets caught and sentenced to death by hanging. His motivation to this murder is that his alcoholism had caused this man to be so engulfed in rage by his pet that he went insane and off his wife.\nThe Cask of Amontillado begins with Montresor confessing his perfect crime to a priest half(a) a century subsequently he has committed it. He began to discuss his motivation for this murder, REVENGE. Fortunato has wronged Montresor for the last(a) time and he is deteriorate of being insulted. Montresor claims that I must not only revenge but punish with impunity. (pg. 190) Montresor is plagued by the disease of wanting revenge. He has gone mentally insane from planning out each and every step of this crime. His family round top is a human theme stepping upon a serpent who in turn bites the heel of the foot. T...