Catacombs

“The Cask of Amontillado” Why do so many people take vengeance into their own hands? Perhaps it gives them a feeling of justice and a way to cope with their injuries. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the main character Montresor acts out his sweet revenge on an unsuspecting Fortunato. In this story written by Edgar Allen Poe, the author creates a sinister and nerve-racking mood to accompany his theme of revenge. First of all, the creepy and spine-tingling mood is set by Poe’s lifelike imagery.…

ground. Montresor and Fortunato walk below ground entering the vault where the “walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of great catacombs of Paris” (687) Here we can infer that this will be the place that Montresor will punish Fortunato. Montresor will leave Fortunato in the catacombs along with the other bones that were placed before they were…

Edgar Allen Poe uses his words to describe a very moody and kind of dark places to tell his stories. And it gives everything a dark future its like he does not believe in the good things around him but only the bad. Always has something bad to say, nothing happy. Maybe its because he had a rough childhood. "THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." It remind of when someone makes a pun towards your broken body part and…

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…

Allen Poe’s story, “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe’s attempt to enthrall and entertain his audience is carried out as the deception of a perceived friendship by Montresor for Fortunato reveals itself to be a ruse to lure Fortunato into the deep catacombs of Montresor’s family vault with the promise of sampling a dry Spanish sherry, Amontillado. Montresor enacts his revenge upon Fortunato in this spellbinding tale due to “the thousand injuries” and “insult” despite the obvious omission of…

Fortunato's health when Montresor is making him more ill. Poe writes,“‘I drink’ he said, ‘To the buried that repose around us.’ ‘And I to your long life’”(6). This statement adds to the irony of the situation. When Montresor and Fortunato go to the catacombs they're surrounded by the bones of Montresor’s diseased family. This is sickening because Fortunato will die surrounded by…

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…

In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism to show the theme that family comes first because throughout the story the narrator believes he needs to take an act of revenge for his family. An example of how revenge is related to the narrator's family is the Montressor’s coat of arms. The reason why his coat of arms is a great example of revenge for his family is because how it is described. Montressor says in the story “ A huge human foot d’or, in a field of azure; The foot…

amazing architectural feats, or rather the advanced forms of government that we still use to this very day? I submit that neither is as spectacular as the ancient underground catacombs that hold the mass graves of around 2000 skeletons. After watching the NOVA program (titled Roman Catacomb Mystery) on this specific catacomb, I found several interesting aspects of the graves that include, the question of who these dead skeletons were, specifically what they died of, and why they were buried in…

plans to lure him in because Fortunato is suppose to know all there is about wine. When in reality he is just a quack and knows absolutely nothing about wine. So the main character tells Fortunato that he has the Amontillado and to follow him to his catacombs. As they approach closer to the wine Fortunato begins to cough more and more, as time goes by, he asks Fortunato if he would like to go back to the surface. That he has a family that cares about him and that he will be missed if he were to…