Writers are ghosts that influenced the future while living in the past. Many great writers had a great influence on people in the past, present and future. Two of the greatest in the west and the east were Edgar Allan Poe and Najeeb Mahfouz. Two of their phenomenal books are Hekayat Haritna (Naguib Mahfouz) and The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe). Edgar was born in America in 1809 and Najeeb was born in Cairo in 1911.
In “the tell-tale heart”, the narrator is without a doubt insane. The first reason the narrator is considered insane is that he clearly lets his emotions take over. The only reason he had for killing the old man was because of his eye. He described the eye as of a “vulture”.
Pride is commonly understood to be a great virtue, but it can slowly transform into an indestructible force of arrogance to the point of a person’s downfall. Edger Allen Poe’s short story, “A Cask of Amontillado” shows how pride can be detrimental because of the arrogance it can produce. In this bone-chilling story, Poe describes how Fortunato’s pride leaves him stranded and walled deep in the catacombs of Rome. Pride is a significant cause of downfall as seen in The Cask of Amontillado, because it produces arrogance, it can mislead you to a false sense of dominance and it can mislead you to blindness of personal flaws. The first reason that pride causes a major downfall in someone’s life is because it can cause someone to do something
Edgar Allan Poe incorporate his own life into his stories and poems. Three of his poems that are related to his life are “Alone”,”Tell Tale Heart” and Cask of Amontillado”. They are all related to his own life. Alone is related to his life by his childhood. In his poem it states “From childhood’s hour
Too much pride can lead to one’s downfall. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is riddled with the underlying theme of pride that the narrator, Montresor, and his victim, Fortunato, experiences throughout the narrator’s deliberate plan of revenge. The theme of pride plays a role in Fortunato’s affection with his wine and in Montresor’s emotions leading up to killing Fortunato. During the events leading up to Fortunato's death, pride plays a role in Montresor’s emotions.
Betrayal; to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty. (Dictionary) In our lives we may have been betrayed or have betrayed someone that ended in a way we didn’t expect or may have because we planned it. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montressor is a betrayer and his experience is extremely similar to my experience with betrayal. Edgar Allan Poe wrote this story to bring out the theme of betrayal.
The Romantic literature period was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement in the the beginning to mid eighteen-hundreds. Two famous writers for this type of writing was Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving. Washington Irving wrote the short story of “The Devil and Tom walker.” Edgar Allen Poe wrote the short story of the cask of Amontillado. In this essay these topics will be touched on, theme, gothic elements, similar literary devices and characteristics of romanticism.
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “ A Cask Of Amontillado” the, quite possibly, insane protagonist, Montresor, grisly murders his antagonist, Fortunato. Montresor alluded, at the end of the vengeful tale, that he never faced any repercussions for the ghastly crime he committed. Many homicidal criminals aspire to escape all possible consequences of their brutal crimes. The rate at which these harsh murders are solved today, is far less than the rate at which they were solved several years ago. Murder clearance rates might be going down because culprits of manslaughter have changed their devious methods of the past.
Edgar Allen Poe was an American writer, from the early 19th century, whose horror and mystery themed stories made him one of the most popular writers of his time. Poe’s stories were not only horror but they were known for their macabre horror. Macabre is when something is disturbing because it involves an element of death.
Three days after the carnival I went out to lunch with Montresor. He is constantly coughing as though he is about to cough up his organs. I hope he is alright, as he is that one that provides me with tastings of the most exquisite wines in the world. The cough eerily sounds like Fortunato’s that could be heard a mile away at the carnival. It is quite odd that Montresor has been quiet lately.
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” tells the story of a madman who murders his elderly neighbor. The Reason behind this callous crime being the extreme discomfort brought to the narrator by his neighbor’s eye. The narrator/murderer, describes the neighbor’s eye as “a vulture, pale blue…with a film over it,” and claims this eye possesses him. With his mind in a craze, the narrator’s feelings toward the old man change, causing him to act irrationally and shaping the whole story.
These stories focus on obsession and madness of some kind. In the Oval Portrait, a painter paints the soul out of his wife, and In the Tell-Tale heart, a guy gets scared and obsessed with an old man´s eye, kills him and buries him under the floor. In the Black Cat a man goes from liking animals to killing his cat and at the end, his wife, and he becomes mad. In the Tell-Tale heart and the Black Cat the police come in the end and they find out, and all of them include murder of some kind. Edgar Allan Poe was a Writer born in America in 1809.
Poe and Byron are masterful at using vivid, descriptive language to develop the elements of Gothic Literature and instill a sense of fear in the reader. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the setting was in a Crypt. In Gothic Literature the setting is usually in an uncomfortable location, like for example a creepy old mansion. Byron's, “The Prisoner of Chillon” the location was set in a dungeon, which today would be considered a creepy or Gothic location. Gothic Novel’s have a history of having a plot that would make most people cringe or look away, Gothic novels are best kept away from children until they like scary movies.
The tell tale heart is very creepy in many ways, and that is just relevant to the style of writing. Beneath the artifice of his story is a hidden rage is what it may seem. All that there is left to do is to over analyze the entire story down to the very last letter of the very last word. The key to the story is the fact that the protagonist is a madman who can’t keep his stuff together.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest authors in American Literature. His literary gift is confusing and difficult to understand. Edgar Allan Poe often uses fear and death to create haunting and dismal tones for his stories. He had a very somber and harsh life, filled with tragedies and depressing events. Poe grew up without his biological parents.
