Nemo me impune lacessit

In The Birth-mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, and William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, all three plays end in murder. Hawthorne’s Aylmer murders his wife, Georgiana; in The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor murders the wine connoisseur Fortunato; and in A Rose for Emily, Emily murders her fiancée. All of the murders were motivated by one thing-Pride. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birth-mark tells the story of the scientist Aylmer and his wife,…

but he can’t handle the disrespect he had been given. Which makes revenge the driving plot in this short story. Montresor then plans how he is going to kill Fortunato. Another quote from this book is “Nemo me impune lacessit.” (Poe Line 49). When translated by Dictionary.com it says; no one attacks me with impunity. Which is the motto of Scotland. He says this because he’s stating no one can mess without consequences. He uses Fortunato by making a point with him. He is finally fed up with…

Gothic Literature involves many elements including; mystery, horror, death, and the darkness of the human mind. Edgar Allan Poe has written many short stories that are classified under the Gothic genre specifically, “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” “Ligeia” and “William Wilson.” Within Poe’s short stories there are common gothic elements such as horror, death, mystery and the darkness of the human mind. A component of mystery can be found in “The Cask of…