of masonic symbolism in the story, maybe motioning toward the Masonic-Catholic clash that cleared the United States at the season of the story's arrangement, and in addition the thematic gadget of walled in area, which Poe utilized as a part of numerous other stories, despite the fact that its essence in "The Cask of Amontillado" may imply the fame of live-entombment writing in Poe's period (Anna Sheets Nesbitt, 2000).
Pride or Repentance: Pride is known as man's most noteworthy sin since it was pride that prompted Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden. It is too the transgression of Montresor and Fortunato in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado." Montresor has been offended by Fortunato, and his pride drives him to …show more content…
The two characters are actually in disguise since it is Carnival, which makes it strategically workable for Montressor to take Fortunato into the tombs. With Poe's utilization of emotional incongruity the genuine importance behind a significant number of Montresor's words and Montresor's actual goals are disguised from Fortunato.
Theme of Drugs and Alcohol: The only literal drug we find in "The Cask of Amontillado" is wine. In any case, there are numerous other drugs coursing between the lines. "Drugs," in this story, can be anything the characters need gravely enough to do terrible or silly things for. The story's creator, Edgar Allan Poe, battled with drugs and liquor. His battle is deliberately woven into this convoluted story, which can be perused as a frightful moral story for fixation (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008).
Theme of Foolishness and Folly: In "The Cask of Amontillado" foolishness and folly can cost you your life. The story opens up human foolishness and folly to extremes so ghastly and remorseless they progress toward becoming indecencies. "The Cask" just has two characters. Before the finish of the story, their joined outlandishness comes full circle in catastrophe and agony for them both. The disaster is the thing that makes us ponder their silly courses – in the expectations that we can abstain from winding up, even in some allegorical way, similar to
Pride or Repentance: Pride is known as man's most noteworthy sin since it was pride that prompted Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden. It is too the transgression of Montresor and Fortunato in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado." Montresor has been offended by Fortunato, and his pride drives him to …show more content…
The two characters are actually in disguise since it is Carnival, which makes it strategically workable for Montressor to take Fortunato into the tombs. With Poe's utilization of emotional incongruity the genuine importance behind a significant number of Montresor's words and Montresor's actual goals are disguised from Fortunato.
Theme of Drugs and Alcohol: The only literal drug we find in "The Cask of Amontillado" is wine. In any case, there are numerous other drugs coursing between the lines. "Drugs," in this story, can be anything the characters need gravely enough to do terrible or silly things for. The story's creator, Edgar Allan Poe, battled with drugs and liquor. His battle is deliberately woven into this convoluted story, which can be perused as a frightful moral story for fixation (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008).
Theme of Foolishness and Folly: In "The Cask of Amontillado" foolishness and folly can cost you your life. The story opens up human foolishness and folly to extremes so ghastly and remorseless they progress toward becoming indecencies. "The Cask" just has two characters. Before the finish of the story, their joined outlandishness comes full circle in catastrophe and agony for them both. The disaster is the thing that makes us ponder their silly courses – in the expectations that we can abstain from winding up, even in some allegorical way, similar to