Compare And Contrast Freud And The Cask Of Amontillado

When circumstances do not turn out the way that we either expected them too or wanted them to we tend to just move on and try to forget about it, it makes it a little easier for us to deal with disappointment. However; every so often it looks as if individuals are motivated by vengeance. According to Freud, suppressing your emotional state of vengeance can generate a discrepancy inside ourselves which can make us look mentally unbalanced. Freud’s philosophies have a tendency to corroborate that the suppression of these particular emotions can end in an imbalance; this imbalance could insinuate that there is an existence of a mental illness or an antagonistic manner that comes from disregarding one’s moral integrity. Freud’s theories are appropriate to many of Edgar Allen Poe’s workings because they contain unstable characters who are infatuated with achieving vengeance on somebody or something, for example “The Cask of Amontillado.” …show more content…
The absence of evidence leaves the people who read this story on their own to speculate and form their own elucidation of the story and to answer any of the unanswered questions that they may have. However; not having the information about the main characters makes it tough to read as well as it leaves plenty of room to fill in with Freud’s ideas about the mental instability and the diverse components of desire that motivate each character. Freud’s theories help determine that Montresor is a very unbalanced character signifying that we are all motivated by vengeance. Freud’s theories help the readers understand why the stimuluses continue to be vague in the story and why he seeks vengeance when there may not even be any advantage to it apart from the abolition of