The Cask Of Amontillado Mood Essay

“I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick”(Poe lines 214-215). “The Cask of Amontillado” is about a man who has endured enough and finally decided to get revenge on another man, he lures him underground and kills him. The story's author uses many different techniques to keep the readers entertained. In “The Cask of Amontillado '' Edgar Allen Poe conveys a mysterious mood through verbal irony, setting, and character action. The verbal irony in some of the scenes helps enhance the mysterious mood. Early on in the story, Fortunato and Montresor make a toast to Fortunato’s long life. Montresor makes a toast to Fortunato. “And I to your long life”(197). In this quote, Montresor does not want Fortunato to live a long life. When the author wrote “And I to your long life”(197). It adds to the mysterious mood because it gives you a sense of not knowing what will come next.

Around the end of the story, Montresor traps Fortunato. “Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it.”(159-160) This helps create a mysterious mood because it implies that Montresor is going to try to do something bad to Fortunato. It makes the readers excited and ready to know what happens next. Another example of when Poe uses character action to enhance the mood is when Montresor trapped Fortunato in a little area and built a wall around him. “I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.”(214-215) When Poe says “I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.” it implies that Montresor killed Fortunato. This enhances the mysterious mood because Fortunato thinks it's all a joke but he slowly realizes what happens. If not for the creepy character actions, the mysterious mood would not have been as