Question

Read the sentence from Poe's "The Black Cat."

"It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself  to offer violence to its own nature  to do wrong for the wrong's sake only  that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute."

Which theme does this sentence best support?

A.No wrong will go unpunished.
 
B.Humans are helpless to struggle against their fate.
 
C.All people have a wicked side.
 
D.Man is meant to rule Earth.

Answer 1

I believe C is the correct answer.

Answer 2

Answer: C) All people have a wicked side.

Step-by-step explanation: In literature, the theme is the underlying message of a story, it is what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem. Usually this belief, or idea, is universal and transcends cultural barriers. In the given sentence from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" we can see that it supports the theme of all people having a wicked side, because the speaker says that he had an "unfathomable longing" to do wrong.