I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity. These events have terrified have tortured have destroyed me. These characters performed a range of defense mechanism in order to resolve the conflicts. Here are boldfaced examples from ‘The Black Cat’: I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’ copyright laws to be certain they can legally download this e-story. In The Black Cat & The TellTale Heart stories, the characters are mainly concerned with repression, denial, reaction formation, rationalization, displacement of self-defense. Short Story: The Black Cat Author: Edgar Allan Poe, 180949 First published: 1843 The original short story is in the public domain in the United States and in most, if not all, other countries as well. The results show that the characters have performed a range of defense mechanisms in Poe's selected short stories. Poe's Selected Short Stories The Black Cat & The TellTale Heart, while the supporting data were taken by means of library research mainly from books, theses, dissertation, electronic articles & journals. The data constitute both primary & supporting data. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method with a psychoanalysis approach Sigmund Freud's theory of defense mechanism. The aim of the research is to describe the types of defense mechanism in two of Poe's selected short stories, The Black Cat & The TellTale Heart & to reveal the implementation of characters' mechanism in solving the conflicts. Defense mechanism is strategies the ego uses to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by conflicts.

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