The Cask of Amontillado

Short Story Literary Analysis Anger and redemption are are traits in all humans, but some take it too far. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, the protagonist of the story, Montresor takes his anger as far as building a wall around his enemy, Fortunato. Readers learn Montresor built the wall around him because Fortunato publicly humiliated him in the past which causes this anger. First of all, Montresor methodically planned out the death of Fortunato before hand. In addition, Montresor…

“The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe wrote about one of his fears in his story “The Cask of Amontillado”. Imagery plays a big part in this story. It helps the reader visualize the events taking place in the story. Poe uses imagery to add fear and suspense to the story. Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery when he explains about leading Fortunato to the dungeon. “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris.”(87-88) This…

“Living well is the best revenge” although this quote has been passed down for generations, not everyone may follow it. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” the narrators seem to stray from this advice. Between the two stories the narrators have different motives with the same ending goal, success. For example, one narrator relies on revenge while the other madness. These two motives alone create the terror, suspense, and a creepy atmosphere the Poe is known…

Lucas Delgado Ms. Laterza English 3A 26 October 2016 Imagery and the Theme of Revenge in “The Cask of Amontillado” Every literary work that exists has a message within the story. Authors use literary elements in these stories to help send out the message to their audience. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Edgar Allan Poe, imagery is used to describe the setting, the mood, and most importantly the “theme of revenge.” Poe uses imagery throughout the whole story to describe…

“The Cask of Amontillado” begins with an insight into the narrator’s mind set. He is obviously very upset with Fortunato, for an offense or an insult that no one else is privy to; including the alleged offender himself. An insult so unforgiveable, the narrator solemnly vows revenge on his secret adversary and states: “for when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (paragraph 1). An atrocious insult which probably occurred only in the narrator’s demented mind; as the offense in question was…

vengeance is what the theme blood will have blood means. In the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor craves for revenge and decides to kill Fortunato. Ulrich and Georg from “The Interlopers” by Saki vows to kill each other over a piece of land that their ancestors had been fighting over. The theme blood will have blood develops within both stories through plot development. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” blood will have blood develops through Montresor as he plans and…

Edgar Allan Poe author of “The Cask of Amontillado,” is an American writer best known for writing dark literature such as murder and horror genres. For instance, in this short story Poe writes of a deranged man by the name of Montresor seeking vengeance on Fortunato. The author states “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (14). The reader can foreshadow from the start, a horrible event will occur at some point of the…

person. One specific example can be seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado. The point of view of Montresor, the central character from whom this story is told, affects how he perceives Fortunato and communicates his hidden motives in plotting Fortunato’s death to the reader, something that would not have happened if it had been any other point of view. The author’s telling of The Cask of Amontillado through the first-person point of view of Montresor creates notable…

many fictional stories that are based on a psychological aspect. From stories like “the Cask of Amontillado” to the “Yellow Wallpaper” a reader can look at the story to see the psychological aspect of each story. As we look at Edger Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” you can not only see a story of mystery and murder, but you can see into the mind of Poe himself. When I look at the story “The Cask of Amontillado” I see the day that Poe locked away his humiliation and humor. Poe had lived an…

Like many of Edgar Allan Poe's reads “The Cask of Amontillado” can easily exceed many reader’s idea of an eerie tale. This piece, told through the eyes of someone set on murdering another man who considers the distraught individual a friend of his, really provokes tension, suspense and mystery. These engendered feelings are created by Poe’s use of literary elements such as imagery, foreshadowing and the story’s setting. Although there are countless other causes for the mystery, tension and…