The Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado

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

Most who have read Edgar Allen Poe’s poems, short stories, and other writings, would come to the general consensus that he has a very dark, cynical, mind. Not only is Poe known for his twisted texts, but for using many literary elements within his writing. One main element that he uses is irony. Irony is “a figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs” (The 3 Types of Irony 1). There are also three types of irony, which includes verbal, dramatic, and situational. Poe offers multiple examples of irony in the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”.

To help characterize the martians, Wells makes them unforgiving and cruel in their treatment of humans while giving them complex motives. The martians slaughter humans they come

<br>The way the narrator treats his enemy is one of the clearest examples for ironic elements. When the characters meet, Montresor realises that Fortunato is afflicted with a severe cold, nevertheless he makes a point of him looking "remarkably well". Montresor acts in the most natural and friendly way towards the man object of his revenge, and even praises his "friend's" knowledge in the subject of wines. Also upon their meeting, Montresor begins a psychological manipulation of Fortunato. He claims that he needs his knowledge to ascertain that the wine he has purchased is indeed Amontillado. Furthermore, he acknowledges that Fortunato is engaged in another business (i.e.: the celebration of carnival), so he would go to Luchresi, who, one is made to believe, is a competitor of Fortunato's. To these words, Fortunato is forced by his pride to accompany Montresor to the vaults (where the Amontillado is kept), dissipate his doubts and also to prove his higher status than Luchresi as a connoisseur of wine. In fact, during their way down under in the catacombs, the twisted mind of Montresor, dares to give Fortunato the chance to go back, due to the almost unbearable dampness and foulness rampant in the vaults and Fortunato's state of health. The narrator clearly knows about the stubborn nature of Fortunato, and is

Conflict: This is where I ran into a little bit of an issue. Technically the main conflict of the story would be man vs. the Martian society or simply man vs. aliens. However I believe there to be a certain element of man vs. himself or his own mind. The earth crew was desperately trying to figure things out, scrambling for ideas and rationales. If they were hypnotized or brain washed the aliens were responsible, but the aliens more than likely fed off feelings and wants that already laid within the minds of the crew. The desire to see them again, the memories and thoughts of the families and friends and what not, but that is just my opinion.

In the novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Martians and their tripods are the presentation of “monster”. Humans in the story show different feelings towards the monster in different stages, from curiosity to emotional detachment and denial. The paper aims at discussing those different reactions towards the monsters by dividing them into three stages. The first one is about the human’s curiosity and fascination towards Martians, while the extreme fear towards them will be discussed in the stage two. The final stage will discuss the emotional detachment and denial to the existence of the Martian.

Fortunato even claims, “‘... I shall not die of a cough.’” (89). Montresor agrees with Forunato’s statements and says, “‘...and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily; but you should use all proper caution.’” (89). Montresor knows that his victim will not die from a cough because he will be the one to kill Fortunato.

Most science fiction authors write about extraterrestrial characters coming to our planet earth in a dangerous way. Reading both the science fiction graphic short story “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury and, the novel expert The War of the World's by H. G Wells portray life on earth while martians attacks. These stories have the similar outcomes on the reader, both “Zero Hour” and The War of the World's include martians who uses magic and cause events that destroy life on Earth.

Some of the irony used on this story can be seen when Montresor asks Fortunato about how he's feeling with the nitre and Montresor warns him by saying "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, and beloved. You are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill and I cannot be responsible." This phrases show all the irony necessary for a story to be ironic: first, Montresor saying that Fortunato's health is precious; second, when he says that Fortunato is a man to be missed; but after that, saying that to him it doesn't matter if he dies; and finally, saying that he will not be responsible.

In The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury there are many differences between humans and martians. One of the biggest ones, aside from the obvious being from different planets, physical appearance, and telepathy is that the humans want everything to do with the martians while the martians want nothing to do with the humans. This is shown by the humans knocking on doors constantly and even just walking into a martians house in “The Earth Men” and by the martians ignoring or even killing the humans before they even interact with them much.

Throughout analysis of Edger Alan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” the readers are able to infer the intentions of the characters through Poe's use of irony. The character Montresor has been insulted by another character, Fortunato. As a result of Fortunato’s insult, Montresor vows to seek revenge on Fortunato by punishing him with impunity during the carnival season. To carry out his plot of revenge, Montresor creates a plan to sneakily rope Fortunato into examining a pipe of Amontillado because Montresor knows Fortunato prides himself on being a wine connoisseur. The Amontillado is supposedly located deep in Montresor's family vault which is where Montresor plans to bury Fortunato alive. Poe implements various examples of verbal irony throughout his story in order for the readers to see Montresor’s devious plan be carried out in a unique way.

They come to Mars with intentions to peacefully settle and undermine part of the society the Martians have built. Many Martians have hallucinations of this rocket and its humans. On page 20, the Martian woman is distraught of this dream she keeps on having and consults with Mr. Iii who is forced to put an end to this colonization. At this point Ray explains how each Martian has a different view and hallucination of the colonizers. Also, how the humans can communicate with the Martians by telepathy. This is just another way Ray communicates his thoughts to us.

If the author were instead celebrating the British colonial rule, he would have portrayed the aliens in a better light and allowed the ending to finish much more differently than it did. Instead, Wells chose to paint these able bodied ideal Europeans as “…something resembling a grey little snake... ”(Wells, 21) to emphasize their deception and treachery. He also describes the Martians having a “…lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. The whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively” (Wells, 21).

They could see the martian surface, the Hab and notes from Mark. One saying “I’ll write questions here--Are you receiving?” and another one saying “Point here for yes.”.

Short stories are just what they sound like, short stories that build up to the point with no unneeded information. In various cases, short stories continue a book series or is a continuation of a book when the characters’ are years older. In other cases, short stories are stand alone stories that get right to the point and do not leave people hanging. Edgar Allan Poe is an author of over thirty short stories and around sixty-nine poems. These short stories are what has helped to create a legacy for short stories for over forty years and still are. Most of Poe’s stories have an eerie feeling due to him suffering from depression from all of his family members passing away. The story “ The Cask of Amontillado” is referred to as one of the best