The Most Dangerous Game And The Cask Of Amontillado

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.

One noticeable similarity between “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell, and “The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, is the deceptive and deceitful mood that accompanies the text. For instance, both of the story’s plots are based off of trickery to achieve what one of the character yearns for. One of example of this in “The Most Dangerous Game” is when General Zaroff welcomes Rainsford into his home, and captivates him in his conversation of hunting, while his real intent is to get Rainsford to engage in his game to the death. A specific example of this is when Zaroff says, “’Here in my preserve on this island,’ he said in the same slow tone, ‘I hunt more dangerous game’” (Connell 25). When Zaroff says this, his

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

Montresor is an effective enemy to Fortunato as he knows “his weak point,” his love for wine. Throughout the story, our narrator claims to be a friend and unaware about the authenticity of the wine he has purchased. As he plays on Fortunato's ego, the ill man is self-forced to

Furthermore, Montresor is very prepared or tactical. He plans to get Fortunato drunk; it works. In the falling action of “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato’s drunken state wears off, but comes to see that it isn’t in his favor. “I had scarcely

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

As they both seek into the catacombs, Montresor speaks of the Amontillado, which interests Fortunato into going farther into the catacombs. Montresor makes sure Fortunato is heavily drunk so that his plan goes smoothly. Montresor brings Luchesi into the mix manipulating Fortunato.

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.

Montresor tricks Fortunato into coming to his house by telling him that bought a pipe of Amontillado. He wanted to get Fortunato in his house therefore he could get his revenge and get away with it. He used his expertise in fooling to get Fortunato to come over. “He prided himself on his connoisseur-ship in wine”.

“He had a weak point – this Fortunato – although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared,” (Poe 289). You will enjoy reading “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. In Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor had a problem with Fortunato because he had insulted him. So Montresor decided to get revenge on him and in doing so Montresor would kill Fortunato. So when they met up Montresor was “going to Luchesi to talk to him about the amontillado” but Fortunato insisted that Montresor took him to the catacombs to have some amontillado since he was an alcoholic which was actually part of Montresor’s plan.

After having read “The Most Dangerous Game, and The Cask of Amontillado” I've decided that my favorite out of the two is The Cask of Amontillado. My reasoning for this is that Edgar Allan Poe wrote it and he is my favorite writer and he is one of the few that i've read. I’ve read a good percentage of his work such as, The raven, (Tall, Tall) Hart,and Anabelly, these stories have an element of mystery and twisted sense of humor. They also have murder my favorite type of books are murder and mystery. In this story Fortunato, Montresor are the main characters, Montresor is the one trying to kill Fortunato, so he can somehow get revenge for a reason he hasn't tolled us about. His plan is to escort Fortunato to the catacombs

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, the narrator, Montresor, deliberately misled his “friend” Fortunato in furtherance of seeking revenge with impunity. One example of his many deceptions is when Montresor approached his drunk “friend” Fortunato during the Carnival and said to him, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met […] I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts,” (62) hoping that he would be tempted to sample a glass of nonexistent wine. In this scene, he pretended to want Fortunato’s judgment whether the wine was legit Amontillado, so he could lure him to his burial site inside the catacombs. Moreover, Fortunato was no friend to Montresor considering that he wanted retribution. Because he said

It had been only 3 months since Montresor sealed Fortunato's fate in a dark, tenebrous cell down in his catacombs. Montresor now often finds himself woken up from his slumber, in a pool of sweat, with the guilt of his past. Sometimes he could hear the terroristic screams and wails in his mind, other times, though, he could see Fortunato lying in his motley, still wishing for just a taste, of a cask of Amontillado. Montresor could not go through his daily activities without being reminded of what he had done. It had haunted him.

     Montresor relies on Fortunato’s knowledge of wine to lure him to his wine cellar. When Montresor finds

From the moment of birth every human has a seed of evil imbedded inside of them and sometimes this seed festers and grows into something horrific and truly evil. For the characters in Richard Conel’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “ The Cask of Amontillado, this evil growth has indeed occurred. However, even though both characters are evil; their reasons for villainy are different and their actions differ from one another. Both characters, Zaroff and Montresor, can be classified as evil but with different motives; one bent on revenge the other addicted to to a vile game.