Masochism In Edgar Allen Poe
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In this report, I will be discussing the theme of s short stories. The stories I will be discussing are the Black cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. But first the word Masochist is a person who continually engages in self destructive behavior.
In the story The Black Cat it ....
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.... trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had a frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man ( The Black Cat 80) This citation I just went over shows how he loves his animals, but it also shows how he is foreshadowing. How he love the animals as pals, but how he also loves to abuse the animals ....
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