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10 Matching Annotations
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Artist and the Butterfly
Meant to say The Artist of the Beautiful ( was thinking of the butterfly in the story!)
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monster
Here, "monster" isn't referring to the cat. In the line before it describes the beast with a red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire. I think this beast is referring to the devil inside of himself. He walled it up in the tomb, literally "digging his own grave". Opening it exposed everything he had done and figuratively now also dug his own grave because he is in jail set to be executed.
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One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.
This reminds me of Adam and Eve. Later on the narrator further details that this tree the cat was hung on was in the garden. Here, the narrator talks about deadly sin and how he hung the cat for no other reason other than because he knew it was wrong. In the story of Adam and Eve they are lead into temptation by an animal (a snake). In this story, the narrator tries to make us believe his actions are being lead by an animal as well (the cat).
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GALLOWS
Foreshadowing of his own future.
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a servant
Is he referring to his wife as a servant here or was there a third person in the house?
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It was even with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me through the streets.
Black cats are known to be a symbol of bad luck. This sentence could suggest that "bad luck followed him wherever he went". Alternatively however, black cats were also associated with wealth. This could mean that wealth followed him wherever he went.
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for what disease is like Alcohol
In contrast, it is sometimes said that the truth comes out when you drink. Maybe alcohol could be meant not to be an excuse, but his true self.
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At length, I even offered her personal violence.
It seems as though he thought he had no control in his life which led him to excessive drinking. Inflicting violence on his wife and cat is something he did because it made him feel like he had control.
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determined to wall it up in the cellar
He chose to physically wall the corpse up in the cellar, but when I think of a cellar I think of something deep down under the ground; it's dark and things that we throw down there are often forgotten. The use of the sentence "I determined to wall it up in the cellar" could have been chosen to represent that figuratively he was burying his emotions tied to the event deep down inside of him as well.
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