Essay Comparing The Most Dangerous Game And The Cask Of Amontillado

Both authors, Richard Connell and Edgar Allan Poe, use imagery extensively in their stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” respectively. Connell’s story in particular is very thrilling by describing in considerable detail the setting, surroundings, and sensations encountered by the main character, Mr. Rainsford, each moment of his anguishing encounter which began with a fall into the sea from a yacht and led to encounters in a scary remote chateau and through a marshy island jungle while being hunted by two ominous individuals and their ravenous hounds. Poe’s story focuses on the sinister, evil, vengeful mind of the main character, Montresor, and vivid descriptions of the dark, damp, musty catacombs with eerie walls

The story begins with the first night on a boat out on the sea. As the main character Rainsford fell off the yacht, Connell used vivid imagery to describe how he fell. Connell gives the reader a clear image of what a man lost at sea might see in the water as his ship drifts further away. He revealed that the island setting contained full of thick, rugged foliage. Later examples of the marshy, swampy quicksand areas, the trackless wilderness, and screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry describe a setting that resembled a combination of what one might expect to see on a tropical island or the swamplands of Louisiana or the jungle depths of the Amazon Forest in Brazil. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe uses imagery to describe the catacombs as a dusty, dark eerie place. Poe describes the catacombs as to add suspense to make it an eerie mood. Poe used his imagery in a way to express how the remains were piled so

According to “The Motive for Murder in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’”, “The carnival setting is also important because the traditional carnival symbolism helps Montresor undermine Fortunato's position. The ‘madness of the carnival season’” (Baraban). Symbolism is very important to the imagery in this story, not only for the use of imagery, but also for the suspense and mood. However, Connell far exceeds in bringing the imagery to life by creating a better mood and setting that makes the story stand out; such as when the author wrote, “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head” (pg. ). Also, according to “Overview: “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Zaroff describes his hunting of men to Rainsford and justifies it by saying, ‘I hunt the scum of the earth—sailors from tramp ships—Lascars, blacks, Chinese whites, mongrels—a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them’”(Wilson). Also In all, Connell gives a certain tone that stands out far more than that in Poe’s story, “The Cask of