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Analysis Of The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe has become a famous writer and poet with his classics like, The Tell Tale Heart, The Fall of The House of Usher, Cask of Amontillado, and many more. Poe is the one of the best at creating stories of horror and mystery. He has a very intricate writing style where he embeds many hidden aspects of the story in the words to create a greater meaning and make the reader truly think about what they are reading. He uses his words cleverly to add humor and imagery to paint a picture in the reader’s mind to grasp them into the story and make them want to read more and more all while still keeping the dark tone of murder and evil. Poe’s writing style more than likely came from his own personal life. His life started with his dad leaving …show more content…

In the short story, Cask of Amontillado, Montresor plans to kill his friend Fortunato by trapping him in his family catacombs. When Montresor is leading Fortunato down, Fortunato tests to see if Montresor is a Mason. He responds by saying “It is this’ producing from beneath the folds of his roquelaire a trowel. The way Poe embeds a hidden meaning and the fate of Fortunato is very clever. A mason has two different meanings. Fortunato was thinking of a Freemason, a person part of a secret society of the same name. Montresor, while not part of the masons responds with the trowel because a mason as an occupation is a person who lays bricks or stones. This is not only clever irony by the author but it also alludes to the death of the character, …show more content…

In the short story, The Tell-Tale Heart. A man is watching a man in the night until he kills him. When the police come, he tries not to give in but the sound of a heartbeat makes him fall under the pressure and turns himself in. The heartbeat he hears at the end of the story becomes to irritable to bear and turned himself in. He said, “I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!” Poe uses this to have you think of the sanity of this man who has just killed this man. In the beginning of the story. The killer is calm and collected and makes the murder seem normal, but at the end he is going crazy and hearing things. However, the heartbeats are probably just his own heartbeat getting faster and

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In the “Cask of Amontillado” Montressor is a very angry and vengeful man. He says that he was insulted by Fortunato, but fails to give a reason as to why or how. He begins to enact his revenge by luring Fortunato in with the rare wine and when his “friend” Fortunato is drunk, he t proceeds to bring him deeper and deeper underground, while telling him to turn around repeatedly. Once he reached a place where no one can hear them, Fortunato walked into what he thought was another corridor, but it would turn out to be his grave! For as soon as Fortunato hit the wall, Montressor chains him against it.

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What ways are Poe and Ray Bradbury similar? What ways are they different? In Poe’s and Bradbury’s stories there is foreshadowing, foreshadowing is a warning or a hint that something is going to happen. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe made the killing of the old man recognizable early in the story. Ray Bradbury made the house “dying” clear because the house had no purpose anymore, so eventually it died in a fire.

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The author writes, “The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them.” (Poe, 1843) This text describes that the killer has a mental disorder. Poe also writes, “‘Villains!’ I shrieked, “dissemble no more” I admit the deed! - tear up the planks - here, here!

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Clearly we can't hear a heartbeat beating unless we lay our head on the person's chest or we could use the proper medical tool to hear someone's heart beat. While Mr. Poe is claiming that he was able to hear the old man's heart beating with his bare ear from far away. He is clearly

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I reechoed – I aided – I surpassed them in volume and in strength.” (Poe 1112-1113) Not only does Montresor bury Fortunato alive, but he mimics his screams as he entombs, taking sheer delight in Fortunato 's terror. Montresor is also an unreliable narrator, which, as defined by our text, is “a fictional character... whose knowledge or judgment about events and other characters is so flawed or limited as to make him or her a misleading guide to the reader.” (Charters 1745)

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The quote shows the author's details create a shocking mood in the readers because he describes a detailed image the helps the reader envision what is going on. This action takes the audience by surprise because they know Montresor is getting revenge, but they aren’t told what it will be so they are as clueless as Fortunato. Montresor threw a torch in the niche where he tied Fortunato up and he finished closing up the wall, killing a man who considered him a friend. “I thrust a torch to the remaining aperture and let it fall within… I force the last stone into position; I plastered it up.” (pg7)

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He refers to himself as Death, implying he has all knowledge and power over the old man. The reader becomes filled with dread as the man patiently waits to kill. The imagery portrayed in “The Tell-tale Heart” increases the demented tone that the narrator projects as the main character waits to strangle the old man. Every night, for a week, the murderer would “look in” upon the victim as he slept.

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The theme of evil is also one important theme to analyze which is significantly pronounced throughout the story. The presence of evil manifests further as the story goes on, with Montresor demonstrating more and more evil acts as he lures Fortunato deeper into the catacombs. The author amplifies the suspense by describing the coldness, darkness, and bones that surrounded the characters. With this intention he plays out his act of revenge of eventually burying Fortunato alive, which consequently drives Fortunato to express fear, desperation, and disbelieve of his current situation. By the same token Montresor takes some time piling rocks to bury Fortunato thus he takes time to enjoy the cries coming from him while he urges Fortunato to leave the catacombs, knowing that he had chained him to the wall and was also buried, making it impossible for him to leave.

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Fortunato has wronged Montresor, but his ignorance leads him to think Montresor is his friend. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “A Cask of Amontillado” portrays the symbolic meaning of Fortunato’s death through some examples of instances where Poe symbolizes the Montresor motto, the laying of the bricks, and the jingling bells. First and foremost, the

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It has so many different characteristics within it and makes it irresistible to read. The way he uses suspense to confuse and scare the reader increases the strength of his writing. Edgar Allan Poe has a very distinct way of writing because of his drive to scare, confuse, and intrigue the reader. First, Poe uses disturbing topics and rich vocabulary to really scare the reader at times.

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In many stories and poems; such as the Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The House of Usher, and so many more timeless works, Edgar Allan Poe has been captivating his audiences with spine tingling thrillers through the words and style of his own twisted ways. The only way to describe where Poe’s writing belongs in history, would be classified as gothic genre. From the start of the 1800’s to present day and the future of literature, through irony, repetition, imagery, and symbolism Poe has been bewitching readers with his gore and insane writings. Poe’s life inspired so many of his poems, from focusing on taboo topics, such as death, revenge, love and loss. Poe’s life was painful and heartbreaking that

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The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843 is about a man who claims he is not insane but only nervous. In turn, he tells a story to defend his sanity, in which he confesses to have killed an old man. He claims that his ambition was neither passion nor greed for money, but actually uneasiness of the old man’s pale blue eyes. He continues to insist that he isn’t mad because of his calm and collected actions. Even though he is a murderer, he claims that his composed actions aren’t ones of a psychopath.

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Down in the catacombs, Montresor is teasing Fortunato. Then Montresor is starting to put the wall up with Fortunato in it alive, “I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh ; there remained, but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight ; I place it partially in its destined position.” (page 4) Montresor was killing Fortunato alive, by putting him in the wall and covering it up so that no one will be able to find him. He wanted him to suffer and die a long, slowly death.

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In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” and Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” the two characters are consistently belittled by the antagonist in the stories. In “Sweat” Delia is an average housewife, but unfortunately she is in an abusive relationship with her husband named Sykes, who has a tendency to degrade Delia. Throughout the story, Sykes treats Delia horribly and towards the end of the story, Delia finally realizes that she has had enough of her abusive husband because he makes her feel as if she is not worth anything. Due to Sykes’ tendency to degrade her, Delia is considered to be a sympathetic character. The same kind of conflict affects the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado.”

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        In "The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor was the one that narrated the story. During his narration, it is known that he has a grudge against Fortunato and he never explained on why he had that grudge or what even caused it. Montresor eventually ends up chaining Fortunato to a wall and left him there to die. He also had built a newer wall to seal Fortunato in.

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