Similarities Between The Cask Of Amontillado And The Most Dangerous Game

Comparing Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Richard Connel’s “The Most Dangerous Game” leads to highlighting some similarities and differences between the two stories, and how the authors use descriptive language, such as sensory and figurative language, to create a strong and captivating setting. Both Poe and Connel use descriptive language to make their stories’ settings vivid and clear to the reader; nevertheless, the authors use those literary devices in different ways to create strongly detailed settings. To begin with, the locations in which the two tales are told are notably different from each other; still, both of them bring the reader a sensation of fear, intimidation and dread. “The Cask of Amontillado” takes place in the underground, and Poe transmits the terrifying atmosphere of the …show more content…
Its walls were filled with human remains piled up to the roof over our heads…” (Poe 78). In the same way, Connel uses sensory language to convey the sinister ambience of the Caribbean Islands in which the narrative takes place, by describing the terrifying sounds the protagonist heard: “Now, over the sound of the waves, he [Rainsford] could hear the anguished cries of the animal being hunted. It was an animal he did not recognize.” (Connel 128). In both narratives, there are different characteristics that make “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” highly distinct, yet macabre stories. For instance, the setting of Poe’s tale takes place in Italy, inside the catacombs of the protagonist’s mansion. The author