Catacombs of Paris

In The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, revenge is a very prevalent theme. It’s arguably the biggest theme in the book, and Alexandre has a lot to say on it. I think the main message he’s trying to get across is that revenge can take over your life. Literally. The main character, Dantés experiences revenge taking over his life. When he’s sent to prison, he is miserable until he meets Abbé. Abbé essentially plants the seed of revenge in Dantés life, “‘I regret having helped you in your…

In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe created a story where irony was a key aspect. Having irony in her story made the story come to life. These ironies all the lead the readers to the actual truth, but then they try to mislead the readers too. There are three types of irony in the story; verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. First of all, in “The Cask Of Amontillado”, there were example verbal irony. Verbal irony plays an important role in showing Montresor’s hypocrisy. One example of verbal…

Edgar Allan Poe, is a fictional short story where the narrator expresses his thoughts and choices as it leads up to the act of revenge. The narrator, Montresor, leads his “friend,” Fortunato, into the catacombs by tricking him into thinking that there is amontillado, and he buries him alive in the catacombs. Human beings are not born evil, but instead are born good. It is their surroundings and the choices they make that influences and pushes them over to the dark side. Poe uses many literary…

who commits a terrible act upon another individual. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, two characters are the focus of the story. Montresor decides to murder Fortunato. He does this by simply having Fortunato intoxicated and bringing him down to the catacombs where Montresor chains Fortunato to a large stone and slowly walls him in. Fortunato is sick and dying, the damp underground cave only accelerates this. At the end, Montresor waits till Fortunato yells one last time before he falls. The story…

About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts…

na Djunisijevic Prof. Klaassen CLCV 2010A March. 14th, 2018. The Portrayal of Revenge as a Mean of Preservation Seeking vengeance is one of the central themes in Agamemnon and The Medea. Both Euripides and Sophocles explore human nature by examining the human psyche. In the two plays, Clytemnestra and Medea are vengeful and ruthless in their pursuit of justice because of the disloyalty wrought upon them by their male partners Agamemnon and Jason. By preserving themselves through actions of…

Nothing was making me more excited than the idea of trying a new type of wine, this “Amontillado”, that my friend offered me to taste and judge, to have an opinion from my point of view. I think he is not entirely convinced of the quality of his product and wants me to check it out., since he’s aware of my big knowledge in the field. I start feeling a little confused, because of all the liquors and different alcoholic beverages he made me drink during our little journey underground, but I’m sure…

I believe the narrator in the short story of the Cask of Amontillado is Montresor. The story is told from the first-person point of view who is the protagonist and in the beginning of the story, the reader has introduced their antagonist named Fortunato who Montresor wants revenge on. Montresor meets Fortunato who had a couple of glasses of wine at a carnival. The narrator sets a trap that Fortunato walks into because Montresor tells Fortunato that he has Amontillado a type of dry sherry wine.…

In this short story, Montresor is wanting to seek revenge after Fortunato made an insult to him and his family. Montresor says he has a barrel of wine in his vault which is very rare during the carnival season. Montresor has a very well thought out plan in killing Fortunato and he is successful. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator Montresor is insane. Montresor chained up Fortunato and started layering bricks. He stopped working to hear Fortunato struggling, alleges,…

Friends think that insulting each other is funny, but the other friend might not he might take your jokes offensive and not as a joke. Being Fortunato you would never think that your friend Montresor who cares about his friend to taste wine at his vaults and then kill you. Certainly, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of the Amontillado” uses irony, because Montresor pretends to care about his friend Fortunato, Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato for making fun of him, and Montresor wants Fortunato to…