The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

I decided to read the black cat by Edgar Allan Poe. In the beginning the author seemed as nice and normal as anybody. But as the story proceeded, the author began to show many signs of Dark Romanticism. You don't see it until he starts his addiction with alcohol. He starts to become angry and seems to not be able to control it. Its almost as if another person takes over, like the devil. He starts to take his anger out on the animals and soon his wife. Although he never did anything to his faithful, beloved cat. His cat was his favorite animal of all and he seemed to love it more than his own wife. Until one night when it seems that he finally snapped and somebody else took over his body completely. He walked into his house after a night of drinking and thought that his cat neglected to agknolgedge him. This through him over the deep end and he took the cat up by his neck and cut the cat's eye out. This is a sign of Dark Romanticism because what good hearted person would commit such a violent act to an innocent animal? The Transcendentalists believed that everybody was pure and that there was no evil in the world, but this story shows how the Dark Romanticists felt about people. Their main belief was that people could be corrupt and evil because without evil, there is no good. By doing all of these awful things to the cat, like killing it in the end, the author is showing that Dark Romanticism is real and it lives on.