in his writing. The events of The Black Cat represents, in many ways, how people can be naturally evil. Thus, going against Transcendentalism.
In this story, the narrator cuts out his beloved cat’s eye, and hangs it by the neck from a tree outside his home. As many could argue, especially transcendentalists, he was an alcoholic, and that was the blame for his behavior. He had been abusing his pets and wife for numerous nights as he was drunk, and his favorite cat, Pluto, led him to murder. But when…
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