Christopher.Nutt
Edgar Allen Poe Research Paper
American Literature
Crimmins
May, 9 2015
Deranged characters
In Edgar Allen Poe 's short stories many of his characters have deranged psyches. In The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell Tale Heart, Poe has characters who are proven to be crazy.
In the black cat the guy marries a woman that likes pets. They get a black cat. The cat was his favorite pet. He later began to drink and get angry. He treated his wife and pets badly.
One night he comes home and grabs the cat and the cat bites his hand. He gets mad and cuts the cats eye out. Later he hangs the cat from a tree and kills it. On the same night his house burns to the ground. On the wall above his bed there was a …show more content…
He decides to get revenge. So he meets Fortunato. Fortunato is dressed up as a jester for the carnival celebration. Montresor tells Fortunato he had found a barrel of rare brandy called amontillado. Fortunato was interested in the brandy even though he was very drunk so he follows Montresor to the underground graveyard of the montresor family. Montresor leads him down deeper into the catacomb. Fortunato keeps coughing and Montresor suggest to go back because he is too sick, but Fortunato keeps walking because he wants to see the brandy. Finally they come to a man size hole and they go in Montresor chains fortunato to the wall then he starts filling in the hole with bricks. Fortunato begs for mercy. Montresor puts the last brick in and leaves him there to die. At the end Montresor tells us that the whole thing happened fifty years ago and nobody has found out yet.(Random …show more content…
Then he is arrested and taken away. visited to his old friend Roderick Usher mansion. He was a little scared when he saw the house but he still wakes up to the house and meets his friend who is suffering from a strange mental illness and his sister Madeline is near death due to a mysterious disease.(Chazelle) He gives company to Usher while he paints and plays guitar, spending all his days inside, avoiding the sunlight and wait till he dies. When Madeline dies Usher decides to bury her temporarily in one of his house 's vaults. A few days later she wakes up in her tomb and gets out and falls on top of her brother and scares him and he dies. Soon after that the house starts to fall apart. He runs outside just in time to see the house of ushers fall.(Sparknotes;House of
Edgar Allen Poe Research Paper
American Literature
Crimmins
May, 9 2015
Deranged characters
In Edgar Allen Poe 's short stories many of his characters have deranged psyches. In The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell Tale Heart, Poe has characters who are proven to be crazy.
In the black cat the guy marries a woman that likes pets. They get a black cat. The cat was his favorite pet. He later began to drink and get angry. He treated his wife and pets badly.
One night he comes home and grabs the cat and the cat bites his hand. He gets mad and cuts the cats eye out. Later he hangs the cat from a tree and kills it. On the same night his house burns to the ground. On the wall above his bed there was a …show more content…
He decides to get revenge. So he meets Fortunato. Fortunato is dressed up as a jester for the carnival celebration. Montresor tells Fortunato he had found a barrel of rare brandy called amontillado. Fortunato was interested in the brandy even though he was very drunk so he follows Montresor to the underground graveyard of the montresor family. Montresor leads him down deeper into the catacomb. Fortunato keeps coughing and Montresor suggest to go back because he is too sick, but Fortunato keeps walking because he wants to see the brandy. Finally they come to a man size hole and they go in Montresor chains fortunato to the wall then he starts filling in the hole with bricks. Fortunato begs for mercy. Montresor puts the last brick in and leaves him there to die. At the end Montresor tells us that the whole thing happened fifty years ago and nobody has found out yet.(Random …show more content…
Then he is arrested and taken away. visited to his old friend Roderick Usher mansion. He was a little scared when he saw the house but he still wakes up to the house and meets his friend who is suffering from a strange mental illness and his sister Madeline is near death due to a mysterious disease.(Chazelle) He gives company to Usher while he paints and plays guitar, spending all his days inside, avoiding the sunlight and wait till he dies. When Madeline dies Usher decides to bury her temporarily in one of his house 's vaults. A few days later she wakes up in her tomb and gets out and falls on top of her brother and scares him and he dies. Soon after that the house starts to fall apart. He runs outside just in time to see the house of ushers fall.(Sparknotes;House of