Cask Of Amontillado Romanticism

Romanticism is a literary art, not anything like a romantic picnic under a beautiful whopping willow tree. This literary art shows many characteristics of dramatic themes in stories and emphasizes the idea of the writer's imagination. Fiction has what fulfilled readers most in the Romanticism era. A popular author in this era was Edgar Allen Poe who was a unique writer because of the dark grotesque style he added in his stories. One famous short story he wrote is The Cask Of Amontillado which is about a vengeful character that obsesses over the want to murder a man who is believed to have wronged him numerous times. He plots a precise plan to kill him for his injuries, but only to be disappointed in the end. Throughout the short story, Edgar

This is an idea we simply can not pull out of our heads once it has entered. Longing for another man’s death, Edgars main character states in the first paragraph that he is going to avenge himself because this man has given him a “thousand injuries”. Then he “vowed” his revenge, meaning he solemnly promised to achieve this desire. Further into the paragraph he says, “At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled-but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not punish, but punish with impunity” (Poe 3). Very clear the reader can make out the narrator’s idea that revenge is his way to resolving his problem. At the beginning of the quote he uses italics to emphasize that he will go great lengths for this obsessed idea of revenge. The writer also uses numerous consonance to show the reader that the main character wants to get his revenge but also does not want to get in trouble while doing so. At the end of the paragraph, the main character continued to say “ A wrong is unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong” (Poe 3). The main character wants his vengeance but doesn’t want to get caught in the act of doing it. The writer used consonances again to show the reader that the main character has this obsessive idea with revenge. Trying to kill the man who has insulted him many times he

Planning in advance must mean that it is important not to disrupt the arrangement the person has made for the future. In the story the main character takes advantage the other characters need for wine and uses it against him. In the following paragraph, he gives the readers a sense of how his plan is going to be played out through the story by telling us “He had a weak point—‒ this Fortunato— although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine” (Poe 3). Fortunato is a man to be respected and honored for what makes him content. The writer puts Fortunato's name between two dashes giving the reader a sense to pay close attention to him. Fortunato uses the wine as a remedy to satisfy himself and to gain control however when he is under the influence he becomes vulnerable to the manipulation of others even though he feels more