Fortunato thought the cough wouldn’t be the death of him, little did he know death awaited anyway. The author, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote a story of vengeance and death. The narrator, Montresor, was talking about his vengeance on Fortunato and how he set him up to die and how he carried out the dastardly deed. The other character, Fortunato, wronged Montresor in the past and would pay with his life, walled in the catacombs for eternity. The mood was suspenseful throughout the story. In The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe creates a suspenseful mood by including a pattern of choice diction, vivid images and superb details.
In this story Edgar Allan Poe chose diction that represented the mood of suspense. He chose words to lead the reader to think what would happen next. Poe chose the words “Revenge”, “Retribution” and “Immolation” (Poe 61) that forbade the sense of suspense of how the narrator would avenge his perceived wrong. Throughout the story he also used “Avenge” ,
“Grotesque” and “Extensive” (Poe 61, 64, 65), these showed how Montresor wanted revenge on his jingly friend. There were also words like “Subsided”, “Fetter” and “Recoiling” (Poe 65-67) showed …show more content…
Montresor’s coat of arms’ motto is “Nemo me impune lacesset”. (Poe 64) Fortunato thought he would die of a cough saying “Enough. The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough”. Then later in the story he dies of oxygen loss. That detail gives us a foreshadowing that he would die at the end. Montresor was building the wall at the end to endorse Fortunato as the book quotes “I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up against the new masonry. I re erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of the century no mortal has disturbed them in pace requiescat!”. The details in this story were all trying to state that someone was going to die, which caused a lot of
In this story Edgar Allan Poe chose diction that represented the mood of suspense. He chose words to lead the reader to think what would happen next. Poe chose the words “Revenge”, “Retribution” and “Immolation” (Poe 61) that forbade the sense of suspense of how the narrator would avenge his perceived wrong. Throughout the story he also used “Avenge” ,
“Grotesque” and “Extensive” (Poe 61, 64, 65), these showed how Montresor wanted revenge on his jingly friend. There were also words like “Subsided”, “Fetter” and “Recoiling” (Poe 65-67) showed …show more content…
Montresor’s coat of arms’ motto is “Nemo me impune lacesset”. (Poe 64) Fortunato thought he would die of a cough saying “Enough. The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough”. Then later in the story he dies of oxygen loss. That detail gives us a foreshadowing that he would die at the end. Montresor was building the wall at the end to endorse Fortunato as the book quotes “I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up against the new masonry. I re erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of the century no mortal has disturbed them in pace requiescat!”. The details in this story were all trying to state that someone was going to die, which caused a lot of