Compare the protagonist in 'The Black Cat' and 'The Cask of Amontillado'

The Black Cat

The story of 'The Black Cat' has many themes, most of them relating to protagonists and several in the form of contraries: reason versus the irrational; human being versus animal; self-knowledge versus self-deception; sanity versus madness; love versus hate; good versus evil; the power of obsession and guilt; and the sources or motives of crime. As in many of his works, Poe is interested in the borderline between protagonists and how they may be discussed. (May, 6-14)

notified in the first individual by an unreliable narrator (a period designating ...