Writing Style And The Reader -

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him (106). This is something many people can identify with as many have experienced a hatred for a physical characteristic on someone they know. Just as the character did not understand the hatred but just saw this body part, far out of the control of the old man, as something to be vanquished. The simple emotions of fear and hatred put forth to the reader come through clearly Poe’s writing technique.
In the Black Cat, Poe’s mechanism for the reader becoming intimate with the protagonist is the use of an alcohol driven rage. Many readers now and in Poe’s life time would have understood and could visualize the effects of alcohol on the character. The rage and hysteria accompanied by the alcohol allow the reader to venture deep into the subconscious of the character to understand more clearly the reasons that he does certain things. The character “plunges into excess and soon [drowns] in wine all memory o the deed” (175). Poe uses the alcohol in ways ...

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