A Murder of Two Kinds “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “The Utterly Perfect Murder” by Ray Bradbury, share a single concept, death. Both of these bone-chilling stories are based on two different men that are unable to let go of things that happened in the past. These stories have two very different people who have a common goal. These two men are hungry for revenge and will go to extremes in order to bring their tormentors to justice. The two main characters are related because the both want revenge for something executed against them in the past. In “Cask of Amontillado”, the main character, Montresor, wants revenge for the crime Fortunato committed against him. Similarly, in “The Utterly Perfect Murder”, Doug wants revenge for being bullied by Ralph in the past. The difference between the two characters comes in the way they express their suffering. Doug has flashbacks to the years when Ralph Underhill was still in his life and the many terrible things Ralph did to him. This major provocation drove him to the murder he is about to commit “For what he did to me when I was twelve.”(Bradbury 1). On the other …show more content…
Although they both plan how they will go about their murders, Montresor and Doug are very different, and so their actions will reflect their differences. Doug simply awakes one morning and out of nowhere thinks “I will arise and go now and kill Ralph Underhill.”(Bradbury 1). He barely plans anything, simply buys a gun and starts his trek to the house of Ralph Underhill. In contrast, Montresor seems to undertake how he will lure Fortunato into his trap very carefully. Montresor meticulously plans every detail about his encounter. Going so far as to find out as much as he could about his target, “He had a weak spot -- this Fortunato”(Poe 1). He finds the most out of the way spot he could and tricks Fortunato into going to that very spot, risking everything to take down his