The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe for ESL students with a podcast and vocabulary practice to learn new vocabulary in real context The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project. Podcast of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Qbedgqyws The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I ...
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I didn’t really get the point of this weird story but my sister said that it is sanity vs insanity.
This is indeed one of the themes of this short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Yet, there are some other themes to discuss like sadism, guilt, punishment, and others.
It was hard for me to read this short story. The people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs, they know themselves that they act abnormal and it is ruining their life but they can’t help it. He should have treated before these happened.
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1. “Act abnormally” is more formal.
2. he should have been treated / he should have treated (sth, e.g. his addiction) because ‘treat’ is a transitive verb and it needs an object.
The theme of this story is sanity vs insanity and alcoholism.
At first the main character was sane and through the story he became to antagonist. He lost his sanity and because of drinking too much alcohol he slowly lost his mind and it even made him to stop his love for animals and his pets. Somehow it was like the tell-tale heart short story by the same author.
I have too admit that as a cat owner this story was disturbing for me to read and I was fully convinced by the ending.
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1. he became to antagonist = he became an antagonist / he turned into an / the antagonist from the protagonist.
2. it even made him to stop = it even made him stop (causative verbs)
3. I have too admit = I have to admit