In Poe's story "The Black Cat", the black cat is a symbol of the beginning of evil or the progress of irrationality. In our daily vision, cats or felines are precisely that cat, an animal specimen. However, in old folklore, black cats are characterized as devils, demons, and associated with witchcraft. Furthermore, the color black is a symbol of darkness, lack of humanity and secrecy regarding the truth. Continuously in “The Black Cat,” the narrator was unaware of these latter symbols related to the black cat; as he takes his wife in jest, “an allusion to the ancient popular notion…that all black cats are witches in disguise” (Poe 1593). To summarize, the cat's name suggests darkness; Pluto is the powerful Roman god of the underworld and death, foreshadowing that darkness is near and that the narrator will most likely end up in an unpleasant place known as hell. Furthermore, in the story “The Black Cat”, the night is not just flames of darkness that devour the soul; in fact in the story the narrator leaves the house “at night” because his face and sins become blurry during the night (Poe 1595). During the night, the narrator's demonic personality is almost invisible and erased from the perception of the human eye, but it is not erased from the existence of the book known as History. However, the evil within the narrator “grew day by day” because the darkness built in his soul made him perverse (Poe 1593). According to the narrator “perversity is one of the primary impulses of the human heart” (Poe 1594); in fact, evil cannot be taken away from humanity. Yet, the darkness is taking time to accumulate, but eventually the human instinct to be evil will be unlocked and escape