Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

Cutting your hair for love, not being responsible with other people's belongings, and getting killed by insulting someone, are ironies throughout theses three stories. Dramatic, verbal, and situational irony are three types of irony throughout theses three stories, “The Gift of the Magi,” “The Necklace,” and “The Cask of Amontillado”. When the audience is aware of something that the character isn’t aware of, is called dramatic irony. Not only is there dramatic irony, but also situational irony as well, situational is described as expecting something’s going to happen, but the complete opposite happen. Then there’s verbal irony which means when someone says something, but means the opposite. Irony can be used to make the central idea more clear, the author can also use irony to think about what has been said. Irony is the most impactful element of these three stories; “The Necklace” by Guy Maupassant, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’Henry. In “The Necklace,” Guy Maupassant …show more content…
Edgar Allan Poe showed situational irony throughout the story, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” (Edgar Allan Poe 61) The readers wouldn’t expect Montresor to get revenge on Fortunato for insulting him. Montresor thought long and hard to plan his revenge.Another example of situational irony, Poe showed was at the very end of the story, Montresor yelled Fortunato name, Montresor didn’t get a response, “For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!”( Edgar Allan Poe 67) Fortunato just thought he was going to taste a really great wine but actually there was revenge waiting for him. Montresor's plan actually worked and he killed Fortunato, no one expected that. Most the time an insult doesn’t turn into a