Comparing Man In The Cask Of Amontillado And The Most Dangerous Game

Edgar Allen Poe's brings us a twisted tale of vengeance and horror in "The Cask of Amontillado." Poe's character, Montresor, acts as our guide and narrator through this story. He grabs a hold of the reader as he tells the story from his own apathetic and deceptive mind to gain vengeance from the weak and dismal Fortunato. Montresor's mentality is disturbing as he uses his clever, humor, ironic symbolism, and darkness to accomplish this.

Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, a lack of empathy for other people, and a need for admiration. Both General Zaroff from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and Fortunato from “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe exhibit these qualities, when General Zaroff killed his prey and when Montresor got revenge on Fortunato. They were too absorbed in themselves to see how their humanity was impaired. In both texts, the authors utilize a violent conflict, an isolated setting, and vivid characterization to illustrate how excessive pride can distort one’s judgement, demonstrating the importance of humility and humaneness.

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer in writing detective stories and horror stories. One of his horror stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” was talking about how a man took his revenge to his friend. However, to look deeply in this story, I found that this story was not just simply a horror tale about how a man gets his revenge in the safest way. Instead, it also demonstrates much irony in several areas: the title, the event, the season, the costume, the environment, the characters’ personalities, a man’s dignity and cockiness and at the end, the public order. he are

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a suspenseful tale of vengeance. To summarize, the main character, Montresor, seeks to avenge himself by destroying Fortunato, a man who had brought him agony. Poe’s use of grim diction, haunting images, and threatening details create a frightening plot. His dark imagination creates ominous images that appeal to our senses and aide in adding tension. His vivid word choice and details help add to the suspenseful mood.

“The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are two stories that take your mind through the darkest moments a human can experience. Darkness, fear, and survival, these are just a few things a man can experience on a island with an atrocious psychopath, Zaroff. Rainsford, a famous hunter washes up on the enigmatic island with Zaroff for three nights. Now imagine you’re deep in the streets of Italy, a carnival makes the perfect distraction to lead away victims of murder. Montresor, the ‘friend’ of Fortunato, leads the drunken man below the surface into the bony Catacombs.

It is Edgar Allan Poe's intense use of symbolism and irony throughout the Cask of Amontillado that establishes the short story as an indeed interesting candidate worthy of thorough analysis. The skillful use of these devices are utilized by the author to create this horrific and suspenseful masterpiece.

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, the author Edgar Allan Poe allow the reader to be a participant in the story. The story is told by Montresor who shows a rancor against Fortunato for a displeasure that is never textualized defined. Montresor leads an intoxicated Fortunato into a series of halls under his palazzo with the promise of a taste of Amontillado. Throughout the story the, the author uses the first-person point of view to describe Montresor surroundings and show us his thinking, and his feelings.

Amontillado is a classically known amber-colored, medium-dry sherry wine, and in the case of Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, it is the taste for Amontillado that results in the unfortunate and rather untimely death of Fortunato at the hands of the maniacal Montresor. Revenge is something that no one should have to experience; however, sadly sometimes, it is an inevitability that cannot be avoided. The Cask of Amontillado exposes Poe’s dark side and cruelty towards society and the world. In this short story, Poe tells about a rich drunk man, Fortunato, picking on a not-so rich friend, Montresor, but things quickly take a turn when Montresor decides to take out his revenge against his “pal.” Poe uses ethos, logos, and pathos deeply throughout his storyline to enhance the story and better the imagination of the characters, the deep meaning behind the setting, and the Amontillado’s secret.

After reading the two stories between “cask of Amontillado” and “The most Dangerous Game”. What I liked about it, they were great stories, but I like the most dangerous game instead of the cask of Amontillado. What I liked about the Most Dangerous Game was the traps and the climactic parts in the story. What got me the most was the ending was the best though after all this time he just wanted to die because, he was getting bored of just hunting animals. So he wanted to try and hunt a person and try that because he’s always wanted to hunt a person after this I was saying “Why would he want to hunt a person after all the animals he killed I would stick to animals unless I’m in the marines” But yeah I did like “The Most Dangerous Game” it just

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is thought to be one of his most popular vengeful short novels. The two main characters, Montresor and Fortunato are re-acquainted friends who meet each other at The Carnival. Montresor has intentionally planned to lure Fortunato to his own death by deceiving him to believe that Fortunato is coming to Montresor's family catacombs to taste a fine wine “Amontillado”. After Montresor leads Fortunato into the crypts, Montresor eventually chains Fortunato up in a secluded section and mortars him behind a brick wall while he is still alive. The story ends with Montresor throwing a flaming torch into the small opening while he continues to put the last brick in place, essentially burning Fortunato alive. Edgar Allan Poe creates conflict between characters Montresor and Fortunato which primarily creates the major theme of revenge in this story. Edgar Allan Poe depicts setting in this novel by portraying death by illustrating human bones, within a cold and damp crypt to contribute to the eerie theme of revenge. Montresor's characterization is expressed through the betrayal of his friend, which adds another element to the theme of revenge in this story. In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe utilizes conflict, setting, and characterization to create a theme of revenge.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories. In this story Poe introduces two central characters and unfolds a tale of horror and perversion. Montresor, the narrator, and Fortunato, one of Montresor's friends, are doomed to the fate of their actions and will pay the price for their pride and jealousy. One pays the price with his life and the other pays the price with living with regret for the rest of his life. Poe uses mystery, irony, and imagery to create a horrifying, deceptive, and perverse story.

After reading the two stories “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado. The Most Dangerous Game is my favorite because, it made me think more deeply, like Richard Connell put more thought into it than Edgar Allen Poe wrote in “The Cask of Amontillado”. As you read into the story, it just gets more interesting, at the ending of the story I never thought that he was just doing that to Rainsford to just mess with him. Rainsford had thought he was losing it after Zaroff said he was tired of Animal hunting and wanted to kill people for the fun

Oscar Wilde once said, "Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner." This is something that the characters in The Most Dangerous Game (MDG) and The Cask of Amontillado (Cask) did not listen to. In MDG, Rainsford barely escapes death from a horrible person on Ship Trap Island. Montresor in Cask left his rival wine taster for dead in the catacombs of Italy because he insulted him. Both stories ended with the graphic event of someone’s death. The event leading up to the fatalities created a creepy yet intriguing story using different elements of a story. This made the reader anxious to know what happened. Although Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Connell create a suspenseful mood in Cask and MDG with setting, vocabulary, and the situations the characters are in, Cask has the unknown element of death, where MDG has an obvious element of death.

By: Harshul Jain The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for using Gothic conventions in his stories which mostly includes the atmosphere of mystery, oppressiveness to create terror but interestingly he subverts the Gothic conventions by having having human beings, instead of a supernatural element, create most horrible deeds. Poe tries to achieve that horror via the capabilities of the humans. Poe uses unreliable narrator and psyches to propel the story. The Cask of Amontillado is a classic example of such a story. The Cask of Amontillado is a story of 2 friends, Fortunato and Montresor. Montresor in this story is the narrator. Montresor has been

The Cask of Amontillado made by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about a man named Montresor getting revenge on a man named Fortunato by tricking him with his own pride trying to kill him because he “wronged him”. Montresor tries to put Fortunato in a low sense of security by being kind to him, giving him wine and acting compassionate to him despite not liking him and this is how we know why Montresor is the villain of this story because he is trying to kill Fortunato for wronging him despite the fact that he probably wasn't the man who wronged him and was a nice guy and just got killed by a psychopath. This shows that Montresor is rude, a dangerous person, and is callous because of the fact he doesn't care about killing a person making him an effective