Catacombs

Montresor lures Fortunado underground to the “amontillado”. While Montresor is luring Fortunado to his death, the audience can see that Montressor’s actions are very sinister. The reader gets a vivid picture of the damp catacombs that will soon enclose Fortunado forever. Montresor tells Fortunado “’but observe the white web work which gleams from these cavern walls.” Fortunado replies “Nitre?” Nitre would cause any healthy man to have lung problems. In the next line, Montresor…

expectations and reality” (286). In other words this is when someone says something and they mean the opposite of what was said. A few examples of when Poe uses this type of irony is seen when Montresor tells Fortunato that they should leave the catacombs; for his health was more important than sampling the expensive wine that Montresor had told Fortunato that he had found. Another time that the reader sees this type is when Montresor asks Fortunato about his cough he replies “the cough is…

(Connel 128). In both narratives, there are different characteristics that make “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” highly distinct, yet macabre stories. For instance, the setting of Poe’s tale takes place in Italy, inside the catacombs of the protagonist’s mansion. The author…

the story he starts off by mentioning the thousands of injuries of Fortunato then at the very end you never would have thought that Montresor would have murdered somebody. In the end Montresor says “his heart grew sick” due to the dampness of the catacombs. Many people would think his heart would be sad due to the fact he just killed somebody. Poe also uses his creativity by making his stories have symbolism. In “Tell-Tale Heart” Poe talks about the “Old man’s eye” the eye is meaning that it…

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It is a dark, cheerful night in the country of Italy. The night is not gloomy for the people who are busy having fun at the Carnival, but it is for the misfortunate Fortunato. The short story "The Cask of Amontillado," written by Edgar Allen Poe, reveals just how deceiving a friendship can be sometimes. Fortunato is a so-called friend of Montresor who is determined to take revenge on Fortunato for insulting him. A sense of darkness shines when these “frenemies” meet at the Carnival. Freedom…

confessed. However the narrator in “The Cask of Amontillado” had guilt for a brief second and then he got over it. When it states, “My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so” (83). He is trying to convince himself that it was not guilt he was feeling it was just the dampness of the catacombs. Which in fact it was not, he was truly feeling guilt of killing his old friend. Though this sick feeling was brief, maybe just for a second he regretted killing him. The…

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