The Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe was an extremely prodigious and ingenious writer of both poetry and prose.Throughout the history of his works, Poe has taken numerous different approaches to the pictures and ideas that he intended to convey through each and every one. Namely, The Cask of Amontillado is a story that involves crime and deceit and the point of view of the criminal. Through The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe once again effectively displays himself as a groundbreaking artist through the world of prose by showing a story through the perspective of the murderer, thereby giving readers a view on those who are depicted as morally evil.

Born on January 19th, 1909, in Boston, Massachusetts, Edgar allan poe's life was one that was filled with hardship,

This was represented such as when he jumped from describing his happiness from his targets “immolation,”to when the murderer starts to describe fortunato's “weakness” in his “connoisseurship of wine.(Poe, Edgar Allan)” This jumping between the present and reasoning helps give the reader a sense of understanding as to why the murder is being committed, and, soon after, Poe chooses to take the story fully to the present, initiating conversation between the two. This quick switch allows the reader to feel the oncoming doom for fortunato, and feel the tension as it finally builds up to the death of

Babaran then brings up that the lack of reason for Montresor’s motives shows that the time period may have been the Middle Ages or early renaissance, but that, due to the clothing of montresor, this leads her to believe that the story takes place in the “18th or 19th century.”(Babaran,