Suspense In The Cask Of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe was an American short-story writer and a poet. He wrote “The Cask Of Amontillado” in 1846. The story is a mysterious tale. The tale was first published in the magazine Godey’s Lady Book. “Poe’s masterful use of irony and first person narrative combined to evoke a sense of horror in the reader”(Riggs, 22). The tale is about revenge, murder and torture.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the world’s greatest known writers from the era of romanticism and influenced by the Transcendental movement in which derived the sub-genre literature called dark romanticism. Although Poe had a strong dislike for Transcendentalism and deemed its followers as "Frogpondians", many would consider him by way of his dark pessimistic writings to be a dark romantic author. Although Poe’s literary style is considered Gothic, the literary characteristics in The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum share three distinct characteristics by means of horror, allegory, and irony.

In Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe presents a murderous tale of revenge revealed as the confession of a man who murdered another man over fifty years ago because of an insult. During a carnival festival, the murderer led his companion to the catacombs where he buried the man alive. The charter of Montresor lures his victim, Fortunato with the promise of a fine sherry, amontillado. As Poe’s character of Montresor guides the wine connoisseur, Fortunato, Poe symbolically foreshadows the impending murder.

In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor is guilty of the cold-blooded murder of Fortunato and should go to jail for his crime. Montresor speaks of the “thousand injuries” Fortunato caused him and, more recently, the “insult” that Montresor cannot forgive. Vowing to seek retribution, Montresor comments on the importance of ensuring his own innocence throughout the process of revenge. He goes out of his way to be friendly to Fortunato. Other evidence that supports the crime as being preconceived includes Montresor preying on Fortunato’s weakness, his love of wine and his conceited nature. He praises Fortunato on his knowledge of wine and taunts him with the full barrel that he just purchased asking him for his expert opinion. In preparation

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

If a friend had demolished a part of someone, would that someone be able to go to the extent of taking the others life? In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor is aiming to get revenge on another man named Fortunato. It is unknown what Fortunato did to Montresor, however we know it was a great insult. Montresor had made the perfect plan in order to take the life of his Fortunato. Montresor purposely bumped into the intoxicated man, Fortunato, and he begins to persuade Fortunato to come down into his catacomb to taste a wine for him. As he expected, Fortunato followed his way into the catacomb, which later caused Montresor trapping Fortunato and soon letting him die. Through his use of carefully constructed setting, symbolism, and verbal irony, Poe creates a mood that is both chilling and horrifying in “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, The story is told from the view of one of the main characters Montresor who is serving as the narrator. Montresor is dark and plotting and emotionally disturbed kind of guy. The second character is Fortunato a respected man and connoisseur of fine wines perhaps well-educated and cocky. The main theme of the story is revenge and it’s the motive that drives Montresor to murder Fortunato. If there is a protagonist in this story it’s Montresor. The conflict is man versus man. You can also see a conflict of man versus himself that the story is his confession or his boasting to killing this man. The setting is during carnival and the story is told a half century after the deed had been carried out.

On January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the most influential writers of all time was born. This person was Edgar Allen Poe and his works of literature would change the world of writing forever. Edgar Allen Poe was a master of creating a mood of suspense and exhibited this through two of his stories, “The Raven” and “Cask of Amontillado”, where there was much suspense built through many different methods. Poe creates suspense by using word choice, plot structure, and literary elements.

The " Cask of Amontillado" is a story about revenge. To display revenge in this story, Poe uses mood and suspense to display that revenge can lead to negative intentions. Mood is a feeling that is conveyed to the reader through literary work. Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. In the “Cask of Amontillado” Poe uses mood and suspense to display that revenge can make you lose your humanity.

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 often said that revenge is sweet, but that phrase does not hold to be extremely true throughout The Cask of Amontillado. There are various themes and lessons throughout the story, but there is one theme that seems to be shown more than others. The most prevalent theme is that jealousy can lead to vengeance, and ultimately lead to the downfall, or even death, of a person. This theme is clearly evident through the two main characters, Montresor and Fortunato. By looking closer at Montresor’s words and actions toward Fortunato, it is apparent that there is a superfluous amount of jealousy between them. This jealousy that is between them ends up playing a major part in Montresor ultimately killing Fortunato, someone who was thought to be one of his best friends. The author uses the characters and their actions to develop a solid plot line and prove the point that jealousy and revenge can destroy a person, both figuratively and literally.

This story tells about premature murder. Poe uses first-person viewpoints because in a first-person view human weakness is apparent. The action and dialogue of the charters add a great deal of value to the plot. Montresor tells the story of the night when he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow nobleman. Angry over some vague insult, he plans to murder his friend during Carnival, a celebration like Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Montresor chooses to wait until Fortunato is drunk and cannot understand what is going on. Montresor attracts him into the catacombs to try a cask of amontillado and then seals him away to die there. The story's setting adds to the atmosphere of horror, as Poe's usage of time and place cause the readers to predict the next action. The festival gives Montresor an excellent opportunity not only to appear in disguise, but to

You are on the edge of your seat, trying in vain to get the pages separated to see what happens next. This is what readers do when reading a suspenseful story. Because it is a suspenseful story, this is also what readers do when reading “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe creates suspense in his story by talking about the main character’s actions and the setting details.

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe tell of a man going to great extents to get revenge. Montresor holds a grudge against Fortunato because he has insulted him several times causing pain inside him to form and builds up day by day. Fortunato has a talent of tasting wine but needs to find a way not to express his feelings that much. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe creates events in which he builds suspense. The author keeps his readers on their feel by having a surprise at every corner. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates in “The Cask of Amontillado” how he uses the conflict to show the build of suspense, change of mood of the reader, develop the theme, reflect a change in the character/characters.

Could you keep a gruesome and murderous secret to yourself for 50 years? A good horror story should contain suspense and fear but also should include a well-produced plot, setting, and should include literary devices. Well, the author is able to successfully accomplish this in the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Due to its dark, eerie and crowded setting like the catacombs, the riveting plot that makes the story suspenseful, and the intriguing point of view that helps the reader understand what Montresor is feeling make this story clearly a prime example of a quality horror story.