Psychopaths In The Black Cat

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Ever wonder how the mind of a psychopath functions? Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat”gives us a first-person narration of how a psychopath experiences life. Psychopaths are hollow beings devoid of remorse, empathy, and a conscious. They are aware of human emotions, yet they find it difficult to comprehend it’s meaning. Psychopaths are egocentric manipulators with deception driving the core of their actions. Their selfish behaviors typically endanger the emotional, physical, and spiritual well being of all those that genuinely love them. Anxiety induces a psychopath to have an external locus of control. Forever unaware that it is exactly this lack of self control that only sinks them lower. The narrator in “The Black Cat” accurately