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The black cat being an allegory about aggression towards female sexuality?
Hi. I’m currently doing a uni project revolving around The Black Cat written by Edgar Allen Poe, and I’ve got a take on the poem no one seems to agree with.
In my opinion, when reading the poem, I felt it had heavy implications for female sexuality. I felt the cats were symbolism for women’s sexuality, and the perverseness to hurt the cat due to overindulgence in alcohol was a metaphor for letting oneself overindulge more and more perverse sexual acts to the point where one reaches sadism.
I’m not sure how to tie it together, so I apologise for this being kind of choppy.
in a part of the poem, the narrator describes the cat rubbing itself against him affectionately, and him feeling a confusing wave of irritation, and an intense perverse urge to hurt the cat, just because it loves him.
When I mentioned sadism to my teacher he said sadism had nothing to do with the poem and i was kind of stumped cause i took this whole angle from it no one else did?
Anyone I talked to about this always says I’m thinking about it too hard. I can agree with the main theme of vices bringing out the worst traits in oneself, but I can’t tell if I’m projecting my own world view onto it too hard with the female sexuality thing. Anyways, opinions would be cool, I can’t really talk to my friends about this stuff cause they don’t read Edgar Allan Poe and my classmates don’t care that much.
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Hi. I’m currently doing a uni project revolving around The Black Cat written by Edgar Allen Poe, and I’ve got a take on the poem no one seems to agree with.
In my opinion, when reading the poem, I felt it had heavy implications for female sexuality. I felt the cats were symbolism for women’s sexuality, and the perverseness to hurt the cat due to overindulgence in alcohol was a metaphor for letting oneself overindulge more and more perverse sexual acts to the point where one reaches sadism.
I’m not sure how to tie it together, so I apologise for this being kind of choppy.
in a part of the poem, the narrator describes the cat rubbing itself against him affectionately, and him feeling a confusing wave of irritation, and an intense perverse urge to hurt the cat, just because it loves him.
When I mentioned sadism to my teacher he said sadism had nothing to do with the poem and i was kind of stumped cause i took this whole angle from it no one else did?
Anyone I talked to about this always says I’m thinking about it too hard. I can agree with the main theme of vices bringing out the worst traits in oneself, but I can’t tell if I’m projecting my own world view onto it too hard with the female sexuality thing. Anyways, opinions would be cool, I can’t really talk to my friends about this stuff cause they don’t read Edgar Allan Poe and my classmates don’t care that much.
#entertainment
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