Adam and Eve were tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad evil just as the main characters (Montresor, and the narrator from “The Poison Tree”) from these stories were tempted to do something that would put them at risk of murder charges. The short story “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, portrays a character tricking his boss into a trap where he is left to die alone in the catacombs. The poem “The Poison Tree” written by William Blake, shows a man watching another another man die by eating a poisonous apple from the poison tree. Both of these pieces of writing share similarities in the concrete devices used to portray theme. Poe and Blake, use irony, symbolism, and characterization to convey that when people hold
