The writer’s use of narration lets the reader get personally close to the characters mindset. Their personal point of view and to evoke the reader’s empathy for the character where there is obvious flaw. Poe is a writer who likes to dwell in the darkness and specializes in the subject of madness and despair. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” tells the tale in the point of view of a madman bent on revenge for an untold reason. Gilman is a feminist writer who challenges the status quo and the strange rules society imposes on people. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells a story of an unnamed woman writing in her journal showing her slow descent into madness. Both writers use narration in similar and converse
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In Poe’s tale a cask is a barrel that holds wine which is hold usually in places underground for a long period of time to age. The Amontillado is a type of sherry wine. Understanding this, the cask of amontillado symbolizes Fortunato’s demise, or more simply symbolizes Fortunato himself left to die stuck underground to age like wine. After the climax of the story Monstresor says “For half of a century no mortal has disturbed them,” (19). This means no one will find Fortunato until after fifty years. In Gilman’s tale, the yellow wallpaper symbolizes the protagonist’s life “At night in any kind of light… it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it,” (84). The protagonist feels trapped and is suffering mentally from enduring the rest cure. The yellow wallpaper symbolizes how the protagonist’s life is stuck in one place aging, becoming stale and …show more content…
The writer uses symbolism in Montresor’s description of Fortunato’s dress “he had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells,” (14). Fortunato coming from a masquerade party dressed as a jester symbolizes Fortunado as the fool. This symbolism is used to foreshadow his demise to Montresor’s cunning plan of revenge. In Gilman’s story the protagonist is the victim. The author uses Weir Mitchell’s resting cure as a symbol for the protagonist’s living predicament and to foreshadow the protagonist’s descent into madness. “John says if I pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall,” (80). The irony of the resting cure is that while it was supposed to help with physiological issues it did more harm than it did good, symbolically Weir Mitchell is the
In Poe’s tale a cask is a barrel that holds wine which is hold usually in places underground for a long period of time to age. The Amontillado is a type of sherry wine. Understanding this, the cask of amontillado symbolizes Fortunato’s demise, or more simply symbolizes Fortunato himself left to die stuck underground to age like wine. After the climax of the story Monstresor says “For half of a century no mortal has disturbed them,” (19). This means no one will find Fortunato until after fifty years. In Gilman’s tale, the yellow wallpaper symbolizes the protagonist’s life “At night in any kind of light… it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it,” (84). The protagonist feels trapped and is suffering mentally from enduring the rest cure. The yellow wallpaper symbolizes how the protagonist’s life is stuck in one place aging, becoming stale and …show more content…
The writer uses symbolism in Montresor’s description of Fortunato’s dress “he had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells,” (14). Fortunato coming from a masquerade party dressed as a jester symbolizes Fortunado as the fool. This symbolism is used to foreshadow his demise to Montresor’s cunning plan of revenge. In Gilman’s story the protagonist is the victim. The author uses Weir Mitchell’s resting cure as a symbol for the protagonist’s living predicament and to foreshadow the protagonist’s descent into madness. “John says if I pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall,” (80). The irony of the resting cure is that while it was supposed to help with physiological issues it did more harm than it did good, symbolically Weir Mitchell is the