The Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

This enticing short story reveals the escalation aspect of simplistic actions in this world going wrong and resulting to the vile side of humans and in this point, murder. Although it’s just a factor for the antagonist to reach his goal, the title foreshadows vital sections of this story. The Amontillado reveals to be the lure in which the antagonist (whom his name goes unmentioned) uses for his silent enemy Fortunato. The reason for this trickery is for him to excrete the rage he has towards Fortunato by ending his life. Despite the fact that it is not exposed, Fortunato hits the nail on the head by making the main character believe that his only impunite punishment is to be placed in his worst. Death. This unfortunate event does come, but not at the hands of the avenger. With this exposed, it is mandatory that the theme of this story resides on
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If the word empathy is subtracted, one would realize every word, action and reaction was calculated by the antagonist just so he would reach his objective. The love Fortunato has for wine was evident and is an easy trap, “Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere”. Pretension is not underrated as specific words are used to encourage Fortunato to continue with the journey of checking the out the authenticity of the wine. “we will go back; your health is precious”, “We will go back; you will be ill”. This was an easy way to fulfill his revenge and he did not hesitate to utilize it. Moreover, every character that is mentioned in this story excluding Fortunato is part of the plot. (Should I talk about lucreshi and the

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