#ok its not purely plutos fault but its like

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you can blame @emptinas for the fact i'm taking this blog away from just being kh & disn.ey & making it multi-fandom .

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fair warning. there's death, alcohol, and death and cruelty towards animals in what I'm about to talk about. I'll put this under a cut bit I've been thinking about this since I lost cell service on Thursday.

so The Black Cat is about a man who grew up absolutely loving animals. His wife let him adopt many, dogs, birds, goldfish, rabbits, etc. but his favorite was this pure black cat, right? his, the cats, name is Pluto. Pluto was his best friend, everywhere the man went, so there was Pluto. Ok. The man falls to The Disease, which was alcoholism.

Sidenote. Poe calls alcohol the disease a lot ("For what disease is like Alochol!", he wrote in The Black Cat). Which I find very interesting. Because I've had the debate of "is addiction a disease or a choice?" before and it's interesting to see it dated back that far, too. anyways.

The man begins getting agitated with the cat in his drunkenness. He's never alone because Pluto is always there and while he used to really enjoy the cats company, he grows to despise it. Eventually he comes home one night after drinking and, upon being greeted by Pluto, gets mad. He grabs the cat and plucks out its eye with his knife. The next morning he was disgusted with himself, and just turned toward even more drinking.

The cat, understandably, is now fearful of the man. It hides from him and runs away. At first the man is grieved, but then he gets even more irritated. Simply because he knows he shouldn't and because he knows the cat is innocent, the man hangs Pluto ans kills the cat.

That night, his house catches fire. Everything burns except one wall- the wall behind the headboard of his bed, which was left with the distinct outline of Pluto.

now, the Tale-Tell Heart. It is about this man who lives with an old man. Thr old man has a glass eye and the narrator, again stricken by The Disease, grows to hate him because of his eye and nothing else. He knows the old man loves him and is completely innocent (just like the man from The Black Cat knew the cat loved him and was innocent). He was, at first, intent on plucking out the old man's eye, but ends up killing him. He hides the old man's body etc etc he hears the heart besting from the floor boards and tells the cops bc he's sure thry can hear it too. I glossed over this one because it's one od the more well-known of Poes stories yknow.

but they have really interesting parallels. Specifically I wanna talk about the eye. I think the cats empty eye socket and the old man's fake eye have a very significant meaning. Personally, I wanna say they represent innocence. "Turning a blind eye" or "having no evil eye". it shows that the cat and the old man never looked at the narators evily. it shows they were not at fault.

they're so similar and I could talk on and on about the differences and similarities. maybe I'll say more about it but there's my thoughts :)

I wanna talk about Edgar Allen poe someone talk to me about poe.thete are parallels between The Black Cat and The Tale-Tell Heart I wanna draw. the word "disease" he uses a lot is usually referring to alcohol. someone please let me info dump lol