“Sometimes you have to give people a taste of their own medicine.”-Unknown. For example, Edmond Dantés is a young man who gets put in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, but he comes back out as a person who is thirsty for revenge. The worst part is, it’s the people he would never expect. In The Count of Monte Cristo and “The Cask of Amontillado”, each author applies imagery and details to convey the idea that revenge can give a person a taste of their own medicine even if it’s in the most inhuman and hateful way.
The authors use imagery to show that revenge can give a person a taste of their own medicine. In the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Dantés gets framed by his friends and ends up in jail, so he plans to take revenge now. …show more content…
In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantés takes revenge on his friends in a very conniving and vengeful way. Such as,“This time Madame Danglars instead of being reassured by the touching picture the Count had painted, uttered a groan and fainted completely”(Dumas 261). The Count uses Madame Danglars and Villefort’s past to get revenge on Villefort. It gets to the point where everyone is suspicious about why they both are very pale and acting strange. They try to hide the past, while the Count tries to reveal it.This makes it hard for Villefort to contain information that could get him in a lot of trouble if it got out. The Count also uses Villefort’s past to haunt him. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor gets closer and closer to his revenge on Fortunato. Finally, it comes around “...a little room about three feet wide, six or seven feet high, and perhaps four feet deep. I closed the lock and chained him tightly to the wall”(Poe 71). Montresor decides to leave Fortunato in a cellar under the house, for his revenge. This shows Fortunato not to make fun of Montresor, because now he’s going to die because for it.In a way Montresor is taunting Fortunato, because he uses wine to draw him into the trap. In conclusion, the authors use details to show that revenge is taken even though it’s cruel and
The authors use imagery to show that revenge can give a person a taste of their own medicine. In the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Dantés gets framed by his friends and ends up in jail, so he plans to take revenge now. …show more content…
In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantés takes revenge on his friends in a very conniving and vengeful way. Such as,“This time Madame Danglars instead of being reassured by the touching picture the Count had painted, uttered a groan and fainted completely”(Dumas 261). The Count uses Madame Danglars and Villefort’s past to get revenge on Villefort. It gets to the point where everyone is suspicious about why they both are very pale and acting strange. They try to hide the past, while the Count tries to reveal it.This makes it hard for Villefort to contain information that could get him in a lot of trouble if it got out. The Count also uses Villefort’s past to haunt him. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor gets closer and closer to his revenge on Fortunato. Finally, it comes around “...a little room about three feet wide, six or seven feet high, and perhaps four feet deep. I closed the lock and chained him tightly to the wall”(Poe 71). Montresor decides to leave Fortunato in a cellar under the house, for his revenge. This shows Fortunato not to make fun of Montresor, because now he’s going to die because for it.In a way Montresor is taunting Fortunato, because he uses wine to draw him into the trap. In conclusion, the authors use details to show that revenge is taken even though it’s cruel and