“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.” - Ken Kesey This quote is saying that if a person seeks revenge then they are not only hurting the person they are going after but themselves too. After all, evil never wins. We see this all the time in Disney princess movies, the “villain” goes after the protagonist but it ends up the villain dies or lives in misery the rest of his/her life. We see this in our own lives, when we try and get back at our siblings or a “friend”. This quote relates to The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. In the Most Dangerous Game it is about Rainsford, the protagonist and General Zaroff, the antagonist. Rainsford gets trapped onto an island only to find it is ruled by a “villain”, General Zaroff. Zaroff uses the island to hunt….humans. He wishes to hunt Rainsford, like a game. Three days later after Zaroff announced Rainsford had won; Rainsford felt the need to go after Zaroff. Seeking revenge. Rainsford ends up killing Zaroff, hurting (physically) Zaroff and himself. He killed someone. He has to live with this guilt for the rest of his life. The Cask of Amontillado is about Montresor and Fortunato. Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato …show more content…
Clearly that is an overstatement. Poe uses quite a bit of imagery in this writing, for example when he says “The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled” you can see Fortunato’s eye, hear the bells, and smell the wine. Another example is when he wrote “Ha! ha! ha! --he! he! he!” Can’t you just hear that evil and hoarse laugh? Poe uses large words such as unredressed and redressed, his writing is in long sentences and very detailed. Edgar Allan Poe wants first gets us caught up in The Cask of Amontillado by saying things relating to revenge for instance, he says “I must not only punish but punish” and “At length I would be