Essay On The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is a goosebump-evoking tale that follows one man’s twisted plot for revenge. Although carnival season is in full-swing above ground, Fortunato finds himself being lead to his death underground in the catacombs. His “past insults” will ensure that he will never again participate in such feasts and merriment; Montresor, his “frenemy”, will make sure of that. As if the story isn’t creepy enough, Poe uses dialogue and sensory details to produce a mood that is both suspenseful and dark.

Montresor is untrustworthy from the very beginning. By montresor vowing revenge early on ,the readers cannot trust his unreliable story. The text states , “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had born as long I could”(poe 59). The reader cannot trust montresor because montresor wants to kill fortunato.The reader cannot trust someone who has vengeance on others. There are always two sides to a story there side your side and the truth. And in this story we only got one side. James F. Cooney says “In the course of the narrative we learn how montresor used the cutting edge of irony to give a surgeon’s neatness to his work and to secure the greatest possible delight of himself” (Cooney 15 ). Montresor is trying to kill fortunato. He finds delight in the the act of killing fortunato. His murder

By using word choice, Poe created extravagant amounts of suspense. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a great example of how Poe uses literary elements, using them to depict a story of revenge and create a suspenseful mood. This is shown in lines 149 to 152 when the book states the following: “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.” This quote uses imagery to describe the setting and uses sensory details to help create the suspenseful mood. This helps set the tone of the story which contributes to the overall feel of the story which can make or break a piece of literature. This is how Poe expertly uses literary terms in “The Cask of Amontillado” to help produce the suspenseful mood that improves on his pieces of literature.

An important element in any story is setting. Authors use setting to convey certain feelings brought on by the character’s surroundings. It also subliminally serves to illustrate the character’s intentions. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe uses the dark, imposing setting to do just that, communicate the underlying theme of the story, being death, revenge and deception.

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.

Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and revenge, “The Cask of Amontillado”, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, because the reader knows very little about the thoughts of the antagonist, Fortunato. The setting of “The Cask of Amontillado”, in the dark catacombs of Montresor’s wine cellar, contributes to the story’s theme that some people will go

All of these images of the setting and characters come together with the idea of Montresor’s premeditated demise for Fortunado. From the beginning we know that Montresor is upset with Fortuado and he is seeking revenge. With all of Montresor’s comments we see that this is not just talk but a reality. When the two men are discussing turning around due to Fortunado’s cough, Fortunado says, “I shall not die of a cough” which in reply Montresor says “true.” (Poe page 3) This foreshadows the demise of Fortunado, and what Montresor has in mind for him. Another example of this is when they discuss Montresor’s family crest, that his family moto is “Nemo me impune lacessit” (Poe page 3) which means no one attacks me without paying dearly. Along with this statement, is when he tells Fortunado that his family are of the masons, foreshadowing the way he will kill Fortunado.

Feuds and arguments between individuals who may disagree with or dislike one another are a common occurrence in everyday life, often varying in degrees of intensity, but rarely reaching a point of extremity. However, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, This threshold of extremity is reached by the narrator of the story, Montresor, who explains that his acquaintance, Fortunato, has repeatedly and irreparably insulted him over the course of years, and uses it as justification to take justice into his own hands and seek retribution through murder, despite there being no proof of Fortunato's guilt other than Montresor’s claims. His motive for murdering Fortunato can be attributed to his state of mind, as Montresor’s lack of guilt, empathy, or remorse highlights him as a character with psychopathic tendencies. As the story progresses, Montresor’s cold and calculating nature leaves the audience full of dread and suspense while he lures the oblivious Fortunato towards his inevitable demise. The employment of rhetorical devices such as irony, theme, and structure builds the suspense for the ultimate climax of Poe’s gothic masterpiece.

"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.

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest pioneers of literature, specifically for his more dark and mysterious tales. Some of his most famous work includes “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”, both spine-tingling tales, the levels of suspense and mystery in these adventures are high, but which one is more thrilling and chilling? “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of suspense and thrills, as an egotistical man leads his rival through nitre infested catacombs, hoping to be avenged for the sake of his honor. “The Tell-Tale Heart” features an insane narrator who kills an old man on account of his disturbing blind eye. Although both are equally terrifying in their own ways, it is a common opinion that “The Cask of Amontillado” is better suited to the unit.

     Revenge can be sweet, but in this case it is just down right grotesque! In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” it talks about a gentlemen named Montressor and how he is angry at Fortunato for insulting him in the past. Montressor will not let this go unpunished, so he thinks up a clever scheme to get back at him. This plan is in a way, ingenious but most definitely insane and crazy.

He confesses by saying: "It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation." (415). Montresor's lack of empathy and his elevated sense of self-gratification are demonstrated through his deceitful plan and his excessive gloating prior to the demise of

The one part of the dialogue that the narrator and Fortunato talk about the cask of drinks called amontillado. Through the word as amontillado is continuously repeated, the title is significant emphasized and stimulate and engage readers also as the novel use incendiary words. The cask of amontillado written by Edgar Allan Poe, father of detective story. Someone says why Edgar Allan Poe’s novel is so dark and horror story, because of background. Mother passed away and father left, it causes mental problems to Edgar Allan Poe. The novel is the greatest monody of 19th century also American novelist and critic and the novel submitted to Godey’s Lady’s book at first. The cask of amontillado genre is detective story novel and horror story also gothic fiction. Especially, the novel showed various types of symbol about gothic fiction genre, such as castle, explain the catacomb, carnival. Gothic fiction produces an atmosphere of terror as the Middle Ages background and shows frightening a horrible mentality of person. The cask of amontillado doesn’t show when the event is happened correctly but the novel’s setting is a carnival season in one city of Italia. The story begins with the narrator as well as main character describing background about determining revenge on his friend, Fortunato who ignore and abuse the narrator in other words, but not detail. The part allows readers to imagine the stories in their heads. To cut a long story short, the novel story line is the process of

The era of gothic literature brought the world a genre full of ghastly content and themes of the macabre. No one is as iconically recognized as the master of gothic literature as Edgar Allan Poe. One of his greatest works, The Cask of Amontillado deals heavily with themes of decay, death, greed and, most noticeably, revenge and power. The story revolves around a sinister plot to a respected Italian sommelier named Fortunato. We learn through the narrator, Montresor, that he plans to kill Fortunato in a way that will draw no legal consequences in his family’s crypt under the city, far away from any prying eyes, for a barb against his character that the reader is not made privy to . It is during their trek through the dark, damp underground that the reader can see the true power Montresor holds over Fortunato. Poe uses imagery, language and tone to demonstrate the power Montresor needs to exert over this elitist figure to obtain his perfect form of revenge.