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Comparing The Cask Of Amontillado And The Necklace

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The cask of Amontillado and The Necklace teach about how you should be aware what you get yourself into, but in The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunato gets himself into a situation where he doesn’t think before, which impacted the story a lot more than in the Necklace where only a piece a jewelry was lost. First, The Necklace is a story about how Mme. Loisel lost a fake necklace which she lost and made up enough money to buy a brand new one which as real and it put her in debt for 10 years but in The Cask of Amontillado Fortunato goes into the Catacombs of Paris without being aware of what he was getting himself into, and he ended up getting walled in alive and left to rot which had a bigger impact on the story then a lost necklace. The Necklace was involved with dramatic irony and so was The Cask of Amontillado, in The Necklace, Mme. Moisel was invited to a dance and she didn’t have a dress or jewelry so she bought a dress and borrowed a necklace that was fake and after the dance she had …show more content…

Moisel doesn’t know the necklace is fake so when she founds out 10 years after paying off her debt she is impacted a great amount “"I brought you back another exactly like it. And it has taken us ten years to pay for it. It wasn't easy for us, we had very little. But at last it is over, and I am very glad. “Madame Forestier was stunned. "You say that you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine?” (Maupassant 217), but in The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunato doesn’t know about how Montresor wants revenge for all the damage Fortunato did to him so Montresor Lures him into the Catacombs of Paris and chains up Fortunato and paves a wall to basically bury him alive which was a big ordeal and impacted the story a lot more than a lost necklace. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” (Poe

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