Catacombs

The Cask of Amontillado is a horror tale that has many gothic stories in it. They include the underground chambers, dark imagery and a lot of violent revenge to share Poe’s stories. Poe is known for using the world of the gothic literature to bring out terror and external worlds to the psychological environment. He can create a world in the mind of the reader using gothic tradition. This world conveys the terror needed using irony, puns, double entendre and foreshadowing among other features of…

Rationale The fourth part of our lesson necessitated the reading, understanding and critical analysis of the Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, a series of short rewritten versions of popular fairytales that bared the formerly obscured core content of fairytales by unearthing themes of rapes, torture, incest, and murder in her stories. The tale of Sleeping Beauty has several cultural implications on most societies, where the biological differences that set the male and the female apart in many…

Clive Staples Lewis, the British poet, once wrote, “For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”(Lewis, 125). Otherwise stated, one who aims to destroy another’s life will eventually destroy his or her own life in the undertaking. In “ The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe is a tale of terror between the two main characters Montresor and Fortunato. Montresor describes the days leading up to and the aftermath of his revenge…

Aubrey Rattray-Wood (1894-1969) enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) in February 1916, at age 21. , He spent more than three years overseas with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (ATC), seeing active service in Belgium and France at Hill 63 and Hill 60. Although his health was greatly affected, Aubrey survived and thrived post-war, always maintaining that his army years were a highlight of his life. Why Aubrey chose the Queensland city of Rockhampton to enlist, rather than his…

When Montresor and Fortunato trek through the catacombs to get to the wine they toast and Montresor says, “And I to your long life”. (Poe 9). Fortunato will be killed later that night and by Montresor saying “And I to your long life” foreshadows Montresor’s diabolical plan. Furthermore, Montresor is fiendish…

that he “must not only punish, but punish with impunity” (Poe 209) and that is exactly what he did. It is a fine evening during the carnival season in Italy; Fortunato is very intoxicated which is perfect for Montresor’s plan to reel him into the catacombs, which is where Fortunato will end his life. Montresor must have been planning his murder for a long time since he set up a thoroughly detailed plan. All the unpleasant things Fortunato did to Montresor would lead up to this moment where…

The Futility of Free Will in Slaughterhouse-Five There are no war heroes in Slaughterhouse-Five. Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim, the man lost in time, is portrayed as an ignorant soldier wandering about World War II Europe. Other characters such as Paul Lazzaro or Roland Weary are too self-absorbed to understand that they are in war and distract themselves by bullying other soldiers. Even Edgar Derby, who was elected to become the leader for the American…

made it so the audience would be able to know that Montressor’s evil emotion never changed throughout the story. Another reason would be to better demonstrate the mind games that Montressor uses to lead Fortunato into his trap that lays within the catacombs. He makes it seems as though he worried for Fortunato in the story but because it is in first person we know that it is to lure his prey deeper into his plan. One of the ways that Poe heightens the suspense in “The Cask of Amontillado” is by…

foreboding tone. By building up the suspense of the foreboding murder, Poe can easily entertain the reader. Edgar Allan Poe also implements this literary device in “The Cask of Amontillado”. As Montresor, the perpetrator, is burying Fortunato in the catacombs, he hears a “low moaning cry” followed with “a succession of loud and shrill screams” (5). Poe describes the murder of Fortunato in a traumatizing fashion by specifically providing a startling description of Fortunato’s screams. In…

was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.” (250). Fortunato’s costume is an ironic suggestion at Fortunato’s naive innocence. he is dress as a literal Fool, who later willing descends to his own death as he and Montresor travel through the catacombs in search of Amontillado. Later, while in the vaults under Montresor’s home Fortunato states to Montresor…