The Black Cat

In this book written by Edgar Allen Poe there are so many pieces of the belief of Dark Romanticism. In the story he starts off as an average person with a wife a few farm animals and a cat. This cat has been his trusted and beloved animal for as long as he can remember. All that changed on one night that he came home drunk off alcohol. He goes to pick up the black and being frightened the cat bites him He then goes and takes a knife and cuts the cat’s eye out. The cat recovers but is afraid of him. He can no longer live with the regret of what he did to the cat and goes and hangs it. Shortly after this his house burns down and the smoke stains the walls and leaves an image of a gat with a rope around its neck. He and his wife go on with their lives and he then takes in another black cat just like his except it has a white patch on its breast in the shape of a gallows. While he is the one who took the cat in the cat is closer to his wife than to him. He is enraged with this and tries to kill the cat, but in the process his wife stops him and he ends up killing her. He then welds her corps in a wall and then goes on to try and kill the cat also. He doesn't but ends up also welding the cat in the wall. After his wife’s death the police come and try to investigate the house. They find nothing but he becomes too arrogant and starts to brags on how well his house is built, and how safe it is. In the process of this the cat starts to make loud noses and he is fond out.

This story shows parts of Dark Romanticism because the Transcendentalist believe that what ever you do as first response is always good because it comes straight from god. This is proven to be wrong, because his first response was to kill his wife and two cats.