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The Cask Of Amontillado Quote Analysis

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The mood that, the author, Edgar Allen Poe sets in “The Cask of Amontillado” is considered ominous, sinister, and even gruesome. The story starts off the reader with the main character, Montresor, explaining that he will get revenge on his enemy with the words "At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity". This sentence explains that Montresor is certain that he will get revenge on Fortunato by making him suffer in a very painful way. The factor of creepiness increases when Montresor gets Fortunato to follow him into a catacomb described by Poe with "We had passed through long …show more content…

as Michael, a researcher on often asked questions, put it, "Creepy things are kind of an ambiguity but they're also kind of not, so our brains don't know what to do. Some parts respond with fear, while other parts don't, and they don't know why. So instead of achieving a typical fear response – horror – we simply feel uneasy. Terror. Creeped out. Between the mountains of safety and danger there is a valley of creepiness, where the limits of our trust and knowledge and security aren't very clear." This explanation applies to the quote from the story as the crypt was full of, although harmless skeletons, they imply death which is unnerving since Edgar Allen Poe wrote the line with such detail that the reader would feel as if in the story themselves. Towards the end of the story, the story reaches the climax when Montresor implements his plan that the rest of the book was leading up to with "In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He was too much astounded to

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