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The Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

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Literary Analysis “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809 in Boston. Poe was found dead under suspicious circumstances in the year 1849, in Baltimore, Maryland. Poe’s suspicious death has been speculated to be everything from alcohol abuse to suicide. Poe is known as a master of the horror genre. For generations Poe’s Story, “The Cask Of Amontillado”, has horrified readers with it’s irony and dark humour. The story, written in 1846, has continued to bring up questions about Montresor’s mental state at the time of Fortunato’s murder. One of the most famous questions asked, is why Poe wrote the story. There has been speculation by researchers that it was in retribution to another writer he was suing at the time, Thomas
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