Poe creates Montresor’s character cunning, secretive, and evil which helps create the suspense in the story. Poe is able to create and sustain a suspenseful mood in “The Cask of Amontillado” using setting, foreshadowing, and the characterization of Montresor. One way Poe creates suspense in his
Unfortunate Fate in “The Cask of Amontillado” From the beginning of the of the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator, Montresor, opens the story stating that the “thousand injuries” and irreparable insult caused by Fortunato won’t stay unpunished, and he seeks for revenge (Poe 467). Poe creates a sense of terror while he guides the audience to the unexpected revenge. The terror that Poe creates in the audience is only successful due to the use of literary elements. The use of symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony are essential to build the suspense that guides the reader throughout the story to a tragic ending.
He had to suffer from the mental aspect of the descending pendulum. In another one of Poe’s works death is also present. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor, the narrator, plots a revenge against his secret enemy Fortunato. Montresor feels Fortunato has insulted him one too many times. Part of Montresor’s plan is to lure Fortunato down into the catacombs.
“The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, has a very suspenseful mood and it is portrayed with various key details. Some scenes that prove suspense is the theme are, when Montresor explains to the reader that he is seeking revenge on Fortunato, when Montresor captured Fortunato, as well as, when Fortunato sobers up while chained to the rock. In the first sentence of this passage, Poe writes this, “...I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” What did Fortunato do to make Montresor so mad, what is Montresor going to do to Fortunato--these are only two of the many questions that the reader inquiries. This creates suspense because it hooks the reader and makes the reader want to continue reading.
In his short story, The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe creates the suspense by using his narrator Montressor who opens up the story by telling us about his hatred towards Fortunado for the wrong and insults he has inflicted upon him without disclosing any detail so taking his reader by surprise. After this Poe creates another suspense about his costly and rear wine. Montressor entices Fortunado by tell him about the wine knowing his weakness and making him prey for it and fell in to the trap and suspense created by him about the rear quality of wine and takes him to his house. Poe also creates suspense through the settings describing the details about the inside environment of his wine cellar, when they reach the wine cellar.
The fictional short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe takes place in the catacombs of Montresor’s palace, during the carnival’s climax. The story begins when Montresor, the villain of the story, vows revenge on Fortunato. Throughout the story, the author doesn't tell us what the revenge will be, but his choice of words in the details creates a mood in the reader. The author’s detailed description in the short story creates different moods in the reader like anger, satisfaction, curiosity, and victory because the chosen words connect with the audience.
The reader’s experience of a piece of literature is affected by the mood of the work, or the feeling it instills in the reader. Authors apply various methods to help set a specific mood, including various sensory details, or imagery, as well as other descriptions. A common type of mood found in literature is an anxious, suspenseful mood.
Gabriel Ferguson Professor Matsen ENGL-2035-W01 9 April 2023 Sociopathy & Psychopathy in Literature Empathy. Just like any mental illness there are series of assumptions that are made against those who have psychopathy or sociopathy. This fear of both sociopaths and psychopaths has been commonly reflected in literature over the past several centuries and even continues to this day. People fear the darker aspects of themselves, and many pieces of literature reflect this ingrained societal fear of what lurks both within and without. “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allen Poe, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, and “I Hold Your Hand in Mine,” by Tom Lehrer each convey characters that exhibit signs of sociopathy,
Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for the gothic themes he presents in his writings, this was no exception for Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”. A straight-forward story that focuses on the theme of revenge. Poe brings up some important ideas about revenge which can be broken down into 3 parts: the incentive for getting revenge, the extent one is willing to go for revenge, and the reaction of the person after the act. This reasoning is essential in recognizing the act of revenge while reading the story. It provides the reader the ability to question their view on revenge as well as compare it to Poe’s ideas.
In Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” it has plethora numbers of symbolism that conveys to us, how the story is about a man that is determined to fulfill his vowed revenge. When Montresor encounters with Fortunato, the way that he was described by the narrator, he “had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (248). Fortunato is dressed like a fool, a symbolism given by Poe, in the sense that through the whole story he is going to be under the control of the psychological games by Montresor. Other characteristic of Poe gothic way of writing is the use of symbols like human corpses piled up, darkness, deepness, humidity. This is a presentation very appropriate for what is going
"The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allen Poe shows much about the themes of revenge and karma from the setting of the story. In this story, one of the main characters named Montresor wants to seek revenge on Fortunato, because he has wronged him. So to seek revenge they both were at a carnival and Montresor lured him down into his catacombs where he buries him and leaves him to die. This shows that Montresor got his revenge and Fortunato got bad karma for wronging him.
Before reading the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” the class was asked to come up with a character analysis while choosing to focus on the character Montresor, who is the protagonist of the wicked tale. The narrator of the short story is Montresor, who tells the readers how he was able to get away with murdering Fortunato, who was a former friend of his. Many times throughout the short story Montresor expresses himself and allows the readers to know his thoughts while he relives what had happened on the day he murdered Fortunato. By knowing the narrator’s thoughts, readers can easily make a character analysis by using characters words, actions, and thoughts. After conducting a character analysis on the character Montresor in the short
Edgar Allan Poe remarked in The Philosophy of Composition that he believed that “poetry, even more than fiction, provides the possibility of taking the reader out of body, in effect out of time…” (“Edgar Allan Poe” 734). Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and his parents were Elizabeth Arnold and David Poe Jr. Both his parents presumably died in their early 20s and lived with The Allans, a foster family who took him in. Poe had a troublesome relationship with John Allan, his foster father because Poe would accumulate $2000 in debt, which got him kicked out of university.
Justice is, the quality of being just, we all know that justice is when we are the ones who receives it. The author of “The Cask of Amontillado” is Edgar Allen Poe. In the story of “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor is angry at Fortunato for insulting him. Therefore he seeks justice. Montresor wants Fortunato to know that nobody insults him and gets away with it.
