Imagery In The Cask Of Amontillado And The Most Dangerous Game

The two stories “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” both show great uses of imagery. But one of them, “The Most Dangerous Game,” shows the most detail, that helps you almost see the story in your head while you are reading it. These two stories get you suspensefully hooked as soon as you start the book. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford, a hunter, has fallen overboard a ship and is lost on Ship Trap Island. He has a eery feeling about this island all before he meets General Zaroff, who ends up being a psycho hunter who hunts him as one of his fun games. In the other story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor plots revenge on Fortunato by taking him into the catacombs while he is drunk, to later turn on him and kill

His intense scenes of Rainsford fighting for his life made me create an images in my head as I read. On the other hand, Poe’s story was interesting in some ways, but wasn’t as intriguing as Connell’s story. The article, Overview: “The Most Dangerous Game,” explains, “Writing mostly short stories and screenplays, Connell's most famous story, ‘The Most Dangerous Game,’ established him as one of the premier writers of fiction in the early 1920s” (Moss). This statement doesn’t include another person’s opinion on his use of imagery, but they explain how Connell was a very skilled writer. In The Most Dangerous Game, “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree” (page 231). His story does not only use imagery, but it also uses suspense, and that contributes to a great deal of

“The Cask of Amontillado” was one of his greatest pieces of work because of the plot was very well explained, using suspense that later on built up imagery. Poe was very talented at making his stories very dark and eerie. His stories all use suspense, which leads up to imagery. Once you start one of Poe’s books, he reveals good sensory detail that puts a picture in your head, and now you won’t stop reading because of the suspense. A huge turning point in Poe’s life affected his works. His loved one, Virginia, died of an illness. According to the article Poe, Edgar Allan, “After Virginia Poe’s 1842 hemorrhage, Poe published two tales reflecting his darkened mood and situation” (Kennedy). His stories became more depressing, but the people still loved his works. They had more suspense that also contributed to more