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"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published on 19 August 1843 in The Saturday Evening Post. It is an analysis of the consciousness of a person suffering from guilt, as in another Poe's work, "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both of these stories, the murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself to be invulnerable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself. The story is told in the first person, by an eyewitness. At the beginning of the novel, he is a convicted man. The narrator tells us that from a very young age he loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large black cat named Pluto. The cat and the narrator were very attached to each other until the latter began to abuse alcohol. One night, when he returns home drunk, he finds that the cat is avoiding him. After the narrator tries to grab Pluto, he bites him, and in a fit of rage, the narrator grabs a folding knife from his pocket and stabs the cat in the eye. From that moment on, the cat continued to pace around the house, but as soon as the owner approached, it ran away in fear like a madman. At first, the narrator bitterly regretted that the creature that had once loved him so much did not hide its hatred. But soon this feeling gave way to irritation. One day, the man takes the cat and hangs it from a tree, where it dies. The same night, the house mysteriously catches fire, forcing the narrator, his wife and servants to flee...

The Performer: Roman Molodiy
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