Catacombs

one insulted the protagonist. In the story, the reader never finds out which or what was the insult Fortunato made against Montresor, but the only thing we know is that the protagonist finds his revenge by locking and baring Fortunato alive in the catacombs. The protagonist later tells the story 50 years after of this revenge happened, and describes about how nobody in the town ever doubted from…

It has been 55 years since Fortunato met his fate in the catacombs of the Montresor vaults. Little did anyone know that his only child would follow him down there to witness his death all those years ago. It has remained a secret until now. That child is now an old man on his death bed. His grandson has decided to avenge his grandfather Fortunato. “Father it is now time to make right the wrong that was done to our family and claim what has been rightfully ours since the beginning. You and our…

Magic. Fun. Beauty. These are usually the words that people associate with Walt Disney World. My parent’s love for Disney World had always been infinite; after all, that is where they went for their honeymoon. Disney for me had always been a magical place where anything was possible. It was a hot summer afternoon in Orlando, Florida, and the sun was blazing, this was the day that my perspective of Disney World was drastically changed in just one day, the day I was “abandoned” at Disney. The day…

As people, we thrive on relationships with others. However many may agree that bringing down friendships takes much less effort than building them up. One harsh word or bitter action, and the friendship ends. In his song titled “I Want to Say I 'm Sorry,” Andrew Peterson covers this very theme. This song takes the form of an apology, and with it he expresses the sorrow of an argument which separated him and a close friend, and yet gives hope at the end. With the usage of first and second person…

Edgar Allan Poe has become a vital figure in the world of literature based on his gothic short stories, Cask of Amontillado to The Fall of House Usher and Tell-Tale Heart, each unique in their own way as they have attracted more people to his books for over two centuries. In his short stories, Poe has shown numerous amounts of descriptive and unsettling imagery with different techniques, adding an eerie mood along with suspenseful syntax. Poe not only incorporates techniques such as unsettling…

“No One Attacks Me with Impunity: Irony and Symbolism in “The Cask of Amontillado”” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” was published in the November of 1846, in a magazine titled Godey’s Lady’s Book. The piece of short fiction consists of Montresor confessing to and narrating a murder he committed many years prior, and is filled with dramatic irony and foreshadowing. The story, set in Italy, examines the conflict between two noble houses; that of Montresor and the rival Fortunato. The…

As darkness and deceit looms over an enclosed exhibit, sacrifice causes the veiled eyes of humans to be freed from a glazed state and becomes the impetus for the diffusion of this new sight throughout a community. In Arthur Miller’s drama The Crucible, sacrifices to restore equilibrium within oneself are crucial, for the birth of a sacrifice from one person inspires the spread of healing into a community and stops the copious flow of evil from one liar. With trembling hands full of the blood he…

of Germany, have a passive resentment towards Frederson which only supressed by the preaching’s of peace from Maria. Their resentment of their oppression by Frederson can be seen after Freder, Frederson’s son, is recognised by the workers in the catacombs. Their display of violence towards Freder, identifying him as Frederson son, depicts their detest towards Frederson, wanting to punish him the way he punishes them. Nineteen Eighty-Four parallels Metropolis in the way it also is ruled by an…

Religion has been tied to art long before our society even had a word for it. Since ancient times art has been used to promote the ideas and beliefs of many different religions to the world. Pictures of half human half animal beings paint the walls of Paleolithic caves the Egyptians hieroglyphics and statues depict their gods and the Greeks built temples and reliefs to worship and tell the stories of their gods the medieval ages were no different. The middle ages brought the rise of the…

being described as “dull” and “faintly discernable” with “eye-like windows”-most certainly not an area one would want to normally waltz into. This uncomfortable and tense atmosphere also appears in “The Cask of Amontillado”, where it is stated the catacombs, an already frightening place, is “insufferably damp” and “encrusted with nitre”, showing this place is truly terrible to remain in, complementing the miserable mood. Even in “The Masque of the Red Death”, where the main setting was an…