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Essay Archive - The Black Cat: What Goes Around Comes Around
The Black Cat: What Goes Around Comes Around
In his story "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe dramatizes his experience
with madness, and challenges the readers suspension of disbelief by using
imagery in describing the plot and characters. Poe uses foreshadowing to
describe the scenes of sanity versus insanity. He writes “for the most wild yet
homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor illicit belief.
Yet mad I am not- and surely do I not dream,” alerts the reader about a
forthcoming story that will test the boundaries of reality and fiction.....
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