The books and short stories “The Night Circus”, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, “The Black Cat”, and “A Rose for Emily”.
A common theme between “The Night Circus” and “The Black Cat” is violence. In “The Night Circus”, Prospero is malicious and cruel to his daughter and on one occasion “lifts a heavy and glass paperweight and brings it down on her hand, hard enough to break her wrist with a sharp crack” (Morgenstern 50). Savagery is also used in “The Black Cat” when the Narrator tries to kill cat but…
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