poe: psychology of fear and black cat
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Edgar Allan Poe
And the psychology of fear
What are some of your fears?
Fears vs. Phobias
• Fear: a distressing emotion aroused by
impending danger, evil, pain, etc.,
whether the threat is real or imagined
• Phobia: a persistent, irrational fear of a
specific object, activity, or situation
that leads to a compelling desire to
avoid it.
Types of Horror Movies
• Slasher/Gory
• Supernatural
• Monster
• Realistic
• Psychological
6 Basic Fearshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
VWxQs5X1hw
Do the fears on your list match or
relate to the six basic fears? Star the
ones that do.
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Father of psychological
horror”
The Black Cat
Literary Devices: Allusion
• A brief, usually indirect reference to a
person, place, or event--real or fictional.
• According to their content, allusions
may be historical, cultural, mythological,
literary, political, or private.
Allusions in Rap Songs
“The side lines is lined with casualties
Who sip the life casually,
then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve”
-Jay-Z Empire State of Mind
Everybody wanna be the king then shots
ring
you laying on your balcony with holes in
your dream
-Jay Z Most Kingz
Anyway I think I met him some time before,
in a different life of where I record.
I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve
but my vision ends with an apple on the
tree.....
-Nicki Minaj Your Love
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass
Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
-Eminem Mosh
Allusion Sentence Starters
• Poe chooses the name Pluto for the
cat because…
• Poe mentions superstitions about the
black cat because…
• These allusions help me understand
the story better because…
Suspense
• A feeling or state of nervousness or
excitement caused by wondering
what will happen.
• Suspense VIne
• Foreshadowing: The author gives the reader
a hint of something that is going to happen
without revealing the story.
• Pacing: The rate at which the reader reads,
the speed at which the events occur and
unfold.
• Unreliable Narrator: A narrator who can't be
trusted. Either from ignorance or self-
interest, this narrator speaks with a bias,
makes mistakes, or even lies.
Foreshadowing: Examples
• “Yet mad I am not- and very surely do
I not dream. But tomorrow I die and
today I unburden my soul.”
• “I suffered myself to use intemperate
language to my wife. At length I even
offered her personal violence.”
• “If I arose to walk it [the cat] would
get between my feet and thus nearly
throw me down.”
Pacing: Examples
• “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable,
more regardless of the feelings of others.”
• “I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise
violently ill use it; but gradually - very gradually -
I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing.”
• “The second and the third day passed, and still
my tormentor came not.”
Unreliable Narrator: Examples
• “Mad indeed would I be to expect, in a case
where my very senses reject their own
evidence.”
• “Beneath the pressure of torments such as
these, the feeble remnant of the good within
me succumbed. Evil thoughts became my
sole intimates - the darkest and most evil of
thoughts.”
• “Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak.”