Why do people say something bad will happen when they see a cat running by at night?

It is often seen in Japanese dramas that if you see a black cat one day, something unfortunate will happen that day, so in the hands of American mystery novelists, this terrorist incident is even more vivid.

Black Cat is a short story by American writer Allan Poe. Black Cat is a classic of Poe's horror novels, and it is also Poe's practice of "unified effect theory". Poe tried to make every sentence in the novel serve its preset horror effect, so the redundant words were simplified, and the death breath that could bring the reader the most fear spread in every corner of the novel, which brought the horror effect to the extreme. The short story tells a person's psychological fear of black cats.

Death runs through the novel and always becomes an important clue of plot development. At the beginning of the novel, the narrator "I" poured out his heart to the reader in the tone of a dying person, and the reader had to believe the truth of the story, which also cast a gloomy color on the whole work.

The short story Black Cat shows readers the process of "I" going extinct around black cats. "I" changed from a kind-hearted person who loves animals to an executioner who brutally dug out the black cat's eyeball and finally hanged; "I" changed from a gentle person who likes to feed and pet animals to a grumpy and angry alcoholic; "I" changed from loving my wife to the murderer who beat her and finally hacked her to death. All this is due to the psychological imbalance of "I" caused by the lack of love, which eventually led to a series of personality changes. It is because there is no love in my heart and my heart is driven by evil that I ruined my life. "I" faced his atrocities, and he once regretted it. I am in an extremely contradictory and painful state of mind. "I hung up and tears came to my eyes." For example, when I think about my crimes, I can't help feeling regret, but my regret is only temporary, and my heart is more manipulated by evil. "But at best, it is only a faint and hazy feeling, and my soul is still indifferent." "I" attributed these crimes to "evil spirits"-a primitive impulse in human heart, which turned the soul's desire into evil and did evil for no reason. This is also the root of the hero's lack of love in his heart and confirmed the result of being ruled by evil in his heart. Whether evil is the primitive instinct of human beings or not, the reason why "I" lost my mind and committed a series of crimes still stems from the lack of love in my heart. It is precisely because there is no love in the heart that evil has the upper hand, making the mind out of control and evil rampant.

In the face of crime, my heart is extremely contradictory, entangled in both ends of good and evil. On the one hand, he repented for his atrocities, on the other hand, he quickly forgot numbly, and then continued to commit violence. The "I" in the article turned out to be a kind-hearted person, with love in human nature occupying the main position, loving animals and living happily. But with the passage of time, "I" gradually became moody and often abused my wife and animals. In my unconscious, an "evil spirit" drives him to commit atrocities constantly, and the love and conscience in my consciousness make me feel deeply guilty and regret for my actions.

The "evil spirit" manipulated my brain. Although "ego" uses social ethics and love to control the irrational impulse of ID according to the principle of realism, it can only occasionally make me condemned by my conscience, and the impulse of "ID"-evil spirits has always prevailed. "I" finally hanged the black cat, killed my wife, and suffered the consequences.

Love is the eternal theme of human beings, and social moral norms constrain people to examine their words and deeds with the standard of love. There are many instinctive impulses in human unconsciousness, lurking in the depths of the soul and being resisted by the outside world of society. More often, people wander on the edge of love and hate, and are entangled in both sides of good and evil. The black cat shows this painful inner feeling very truly and aptly, which is also the charm of this work.