Jester

The perfect plan for revenge, a simple plan that not even the simplest of jesters could figure out. Have you ever wished you could… dispose of someone who has caused you a thousand injuries? Several murders are committed every single day here in California, and every one of them has a motive behind it. What’s the motive, you may ask? Perhaps… revenge. The Cask of Amontillado was written by Edgar Allan Poe and is a short story horror. The Cask of Amontillado is the story of a man named Montresor…

and she chooses the name Ganymede. In the play, no one recognizes her as a girl as she masterfully manipulates herself to be a boy. Once she makes this decision she then decides to run off into the forest with her best friend Celia and the court jester Touchstone. While in the forest Rosalind finds some love poems that Orlando has written to Rosalind and hung from the branches of trees. Ganymede helps Orlando to cure his lovesickness by wooing him, Ganymede, as though he/she were Rosalind. A…

Ten-year-old Princess Lenore has fallen ill, and the moon is the likely cure for her illness. The king and his men struggles, as in the end, they gave her the golden sphere necklace as the moon. The theme of this story is likely about fooling or lying to children in order to make them feel better. This is due to the fact that many parents or adults lie to children in order to make them feel better, which is a highly risky move, as we do not know what and how they would react. Firstly, one way…

now soaked. Suddenly out of nowhere the sky turned a beautiful shade of twilight and everyone looked depressed, and someone in a really cool jester outfit showed up in front of Emily, Chloe, Lily, Kelsey, and April. He was holding a yellow orb that looked perfect for a prank, so I jumped off the balcony, onto the flagpole, and then jumped down passed the jester, grabbing the ball and landing on the ground perfectly. I looked at the girls and Mr. Joker. The girls looked surprised and also happy,…

a) Degradation ceremony/ pg. 200: a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individual’s self- identity and stamping a new identity in its place. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is a gang organization that commits its members to identify with the gangs collective mentality and dogma. To achieve gang conformity, MS-13 uses many rites of passage to prove that a prospective member is able to serve in the gang. These degradation…

A cynical man named Montresor that seeks revenge from his “friend” Fortunato and successfully murders him brings him the exact opposite of what his name means, fortunate. Poe on the other hand, the author of this story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, was brought good fortune from this tale he made that became popular and got to make good money off of it. This success did not come with just his well thought out plot for the story, but also many other elements, mainly literary elements. Edgar Allan…

But Fortunato is the one who is aware of very little and who ridicules nothing. It is Montresor who comes closer to the role of Jester. (Nevi 462) The title of the story is ironic itself. The title’s literal meaning is ‘A place that stores Amontillado’; however, in contrast, it’s figurative meaning would be ‘The casket that has Amontillado’. The irony just within the commencement…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The plan was a simple one and should have been easy to execute, after all the 24 men were all veterans of war. The aim was to gather the men from Wayne and Holmes counties on the steps leading to the Lincoln Memorial and shoot a group photograph. They were there as part of the Shreve American Legion’s inaugural Honor Bus Tour, patterned after the Honor Flight to bring veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the military memorials. As military strategists know, no plan survives…

The speaker begins to describe Hop-Frog by saying, “His fool, or professional jester, was not only a fool, however. His value was trebled in the eyes of the king, by the fact of his being also a dwarf and a cripple” (Poe 502). From this description, the reader can assume that the narrator is Hop-Frog because he does not speak highly…

puts “on a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaire” (paragraph 22). He is also in possession of a sword (not uncommon in those days) but a trowel? This should have been alarming to Fortunato; however, the mastermind of madness ensured that the Jester was way beyond inebriation. Montressor seems unnervingly comfortable in the cold, cobweb infested, dark, damp and skull-laden tombs. His attire, in conjunction with this graveyard environment is reflective of his dark and heinous heart. He…