Amontillado

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is packed with irony and an overall dark mood. The story displays a vengeful Montresor fooling an intoxicated Fortunato to his demise. The reader learns Fortunato has insult Montresor and he causes him to become overwhelmed with a need for revenge. Montresor acts as if he is not bothered and pretends to be friends with Fortunato until his obliteration. Irony extends throughout the story when the two men are speaking or when they get into…

Edgar Allen Poe is an American writer that is world renown for his dark writing style, which allows the reader to be engulfed into his tales of horror and mystery. The Cask of Amontillado is a classic Poe style story that is littered with unexpected twists and turns around every corner. The reader is able to watch from afar as the main character seeks revenge against his “friend” Fortunato. Poe’s ability to create a character like Montresor amazes me because of the unique way in which he reveals…

rough the characterization of Montresor and Fortunato, Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado” suggests that a hubris leads to physical and cognitive collapse. The beginning of Montresor’s arrogance is easily showcased with the use of indirect characterization through his thoughts in the first few sentences of the short story. In his eyes, his bloodline or his family’s name is of paramount importance and anyone who disagrees is considered disrespectful. This can be shown in the text when…

At times, everyone felt betrayed by someone fairly close to us. In Edgar Allen Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunato felt the ultimate betrayal by his supposed friend Montresor. Throughout the story Fortunato follows Montresor into the catacombs to try some supposedly weak Amontillado simply just to be tied to a wall and have a wall built around him. Fortunato makes himself an easy target by his arrogance, he's too trusting, and his ignorance of hurting Montresor. Fortunato's impairment…

“Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power” William Gaddis. As seen in the short stories “The Weapon” by Fredric Brown and “The Cask Of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Pot people never seem to realize or understand how strong a person's power is until the damage is done, people will use weakness of others as their power or to their advantage and no matter how big or small the damage done to a person they will seek revenge. Throughout these short stories the audience realizes that people who…

In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a tale of revenge by taking a man’s life. Montresor has been insulted endless times by Fortunato and plans to take away Fortunato's life with the deception of a cask of Amontillado. Irony is defined as a feeling, tone, mood, or attitude arising from the awareness that what is In “The Cask of Amontillado”, the characters are ironic by their name, costume, and dialogue. his story is built on irony since the beginning. In the title we have the…

Montresor, a character from the Cask of Amontillado, is a clever person. He demonstrates intelligence and cunningness throughout the story. For instance, when Montresor is leading Fortunato to his wine cellar, Montresor uses his cunning skills to make himself in unseen amongst the crowd. He cleverly planned out the entire scene of his perfect murder, down to the details. "Putting on a mask of black silk, and drawing a Roquelaure closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo."…

Revenge is a sickness that plagues the mind and ends lives. In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, revenge is taken to the point of murder, simply for the act of insulting an individual to the breaking point. The breaking point was the night of a carnival, where Montresor exacted his revenge by leading Fortunato into the family catacombs, with intent of ending his life. While society would feel that killing is an extreme measure for the act of teasing, there is a…

Edgar Allen Poe, the author of "The Cask of Amontillado," uses diction to create a dark tone in the story. This can be first seen towards the end of the first paragraph where the narrator states, "I must not only punish but punish with impunity." This quote sets a dark tone because it tells the reader that the narrator is going to kill someone and that they will do so in a way were they cannot face consequences, as told by the definition of impunity. Another example of the dark tone is again by…

Edgar Allen Poe writes “Cask of Amontillado”, and in this short story, Poe reveals the dark side of humiliation, revenge. The theme that Poe went with was that revenge can consume a man and turn him mad. In this story, Montresor has a method to his madness at getting back at Fortunato, he plans to kill him and how he plans this is shown through his thoughts, conversations and finally his actions. Montresor’s thoughts of revenge start off the story like this “When he (Fortunato) ventured upon…