In the narrator of Poe’s story states “In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not.” He says he’s not crazy when he clearly does things only insane people do. When retelling the story he says “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me, I knew myself no longer”, he shifts the blame from himself to something outside. Speaks of lines such as “I retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits ” to once again prove that he is in fact sane with having self control. No one told him to kill his cat and wife, it was all him. Escaping this truth, he blames it on the cat scorch mark, the white hair on the cat, and other reasons because he cannot accept his own actions. This is similar to Hopsin’s song because it starts with someone accusing him of insanity. His response was “If I was really crazy I’d run up inside an orphanage and torment kids, and beat babies faces with bags of oranges ”, he tries to contrast his accusation with something even more crazy. This makes anything he did seem less important and can dodge it altogether.One would have to be crazy to come up with these scenarios that scary, if not creative. Yet this combined with his chorus “I’m not crazy… I can’t control the thoughts that always travel through my brain….not my fault so don’t blame me” shows that his creativity isn’t intentional. He has no control over these ideas, which is just as scary. Both narrators in both works have been confronted with the idea that they might be insane, either looking back on their actions, or someone else telling them. Both of these narrators have used someway to dodge the idea that they might be insane. Both narrators do/think of ideas that no sane person would do.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Edgar Allen Poe and Hopsin are BOTH crazy
What kind of person throws baby corpses at people’ homes? In his song “I’m Not Crazy,” Hopsin raps about different crazy things he would do if he was actually crazy. This song is kinda like Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat”. Even though Poe’s story is about killing and Hopsin is just rapping about scenarios, they are kind of similar.
In the narrator of Poe’s story states “In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not.” He says he’s not crazy when he clearly does things only insane people do. When retelling the story he says “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me, I knew myself no longer”, he shifts the blame from himself to something outside. Speaks of lines such as “I retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits ” to once again prove that he is in fact sane with having self control. No one told him to kill his cat and wife, it was all him. Escaping this truth, he blames it on the cat scorch mark, the white hair on the cat, and other reasons because he cannot accept his own actions. This is similar to Hopsin’s song because it starts with someone accusing him of insanity. His response was “If I was really crazy I’d run up inside an orphanage and torment kids, and beat babies faces with bags of oranges ”, he tries to contrast his accusation with something even more crazy. This makes anything he did seem less important and can dodge it altogether.One would have to be crazy to come up with these scenarios that scary, if not creative. Yet this combined with his chorus “I’m not crazy… I can’t control the thoughts that always travel through my brain….not my fault so don’t blame me” shows that his creativity isn’t intentional. He has no control over these ideas, which is just as scary. Both narrators in both works have been confronted with the idea that they might be insane, either looking back on their actions, or someone else telling them. Both of these narrators have used someway to dodge the idea that they might be insane. Both narrators do/think of ideas that no sane person would do.
In the narrator of Poe’s story states “In a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad I am not.” He says he’s not crazy when he clearly does things only insane people do. When retelling the story he says “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me, I knew myself no longer”, he shifts the blame from himself to something outside. Speaks of lines such as “I retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits ” to once again prove that he is in fact sane with having self control. No one told him to kill his cat and wife, it was all him. Escaping this truth, he blames it on the cat scorch mark, the white hair on the cat, and other reasons because he cannot accept his own actions. This is similar to Hopsin’s song because it starts with someone accusing him of insanity. His response was “If I was really crazy I’d run up inside an orphanage and torment kids, and beat babies faces with bags of oranges ”, he tries to contrast his accusation with something even more crazy. This makes anything he did seem less important and can dodge it altogether.One would have to be crazy to come up with these scenarios that scary, if not creative. Yet this combined with his chorus “I’m not crazy… I can’t control the thoughts that always travel through my brain….not my fault so don’t blame me” shows that his creativity isn’t intentional. He has no control over these ideas, which is just as scary. Both narrators in both works have been confronted with the idea that they might be insane, either looking back on their actions, or someone else telling them. Both of these narrators have used someway to dodge the idea that they might be insane. Both narrators do/think of ideas that no sane person would do.
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