Essay Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And The Cask Of Amontillado

The power to change is man’s greatest struggles, since a strong influence that lead them to where they are now. It is also the price and journey that both Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell Tale Heart” and the narrator of the “The Cask of Amontillado”, another of poe’s story. In both story the narrators, both indicate that they want to get rid of an addiction they had that is driving them to madness, and in order to do so they, must do it at any cost. Both narrator clearly plan on their instincts and carefully plans out methods in which leads them to their satisfaction. These stories contain many similarities and differences in the use of tone, irony and symbolism, of the protagonist. Through these characters and their actions, Poe communicates his theme that no matter how hard, if men has the potential to rid …show more content…
An example of this includes the name; Fortunato though the meaning of a very fortunate man, but his fate conclude in a tragic fate. By the end of the story Montresor “laid the first tier…[Montresor] resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, … and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with [his] breast. [He] again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within”. The figure with in is actually Fortunato who is not very fortunate at this point. As Fortunato was leading to his death on other ironic event that occurs when Fortunato asks, “You? Impossible! A mason?”. In this statement Fortunato didn’t mean a person who has skills of working with tier of masonry, but rather part of a community of people who helps one another that Montresor is not a part of. Montresor lacks this knowledge in results he shows his rival a trowel, an essential tool of an actually mason, ironically a skill that Montresor will later use to seal Fortunato’s