The narrator from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat", by deciding to plea "not guilty due to insanity", is doing something many people charged with murder do: blaming their own acts on a certain "demonic" mindset, which can be caused by evil spirits or even drugs (legal or illegal). The narrator has a history of alcohol abuse, which, according to his own testimony throughout the short story, led him to cut one of his cat's eyes out of its socket. He'd also been violent to his wife, not only verbally, and said he'd committed violent acts precisely because of their malignant essence. This man is no good. Therefore, there's no point in validating his plea of "not guilty due to insanity" and he should indeed be charged with murder. After all, he killed his wife with the strike of an axe upon her head, just because she wanted to stop him from killing their cat. As the narrator admits, he was then possessed by unstoppable anger, and that's not a reason for claiming to have done anything due to insanity at all.
The statement that best represents the power of the modern-day monster on readers is : D. readers are forced to consider the possible monstrous actions inside of themselves like hatred and prejudice.
In modern's society, the definition of monster is not an actual ugly formed creature, but more of the ugliness that we found in a person's character
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The nature of the predicate in grammar is that it is one of the two parts of the sentence, the other being the subject, and its purpose is to provide some information about the subject, such as what it does or what the subject is like.
The poor had few luxuries, ate food they could afford to buy worked long hours && lived in damp filthy conditions. The wealthy usually well fed, clean and well clothed, didn’t need to work lived in big houses with servants, and children went to school.
