A Prose Criticism The Cask of Amontillado Elaborately designed masterfully crafted and macabre to an astounding degree The Cask of Amontillado is an example of Poes typical horror short story setting A combination of irony and pure terror strewn with subversive eerie elements allow the reader to enjoy the tale on a wide range of levels Powerful and recurring themes are often attributed to Poe claiming that it is his style Some of these themes are in themselves an orb of mystery and imagination
Montresor tells this story about the day he took his revenge on Fortunato a fellow nobleman after years of insult He plots to murder his friend during carnival when the man is drunk and wearing a jesters motley The story takes place at dusk in the streets of a nameless Italian city around the 18th century during the supreme madness of the carnival season Montresor is in route to see a friend seeking advice and verification of a recently purchased wine He sees Fortunato and starts to discuss his
A Cask of Amontillado A Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is the story of a young man named Montresor who is seeking revenge on a wine connoisseur named Fortunato because Fortunato insulted Montresor Montresors plan for revenge includes taking Fortunato down into the catacombs beneath his estate and leaving him there to die But in the end rather than being happy Montresor questions what he has just done In this story Edgar Allen Poe use foreshadowing and irony to prove that while revenge m
Sweet Revenge When looked at for the first time Montresor in Edgar Allan Poes The Cask of Amontillado may seem disturbing Montresor has plans to murder a man Fortunato for insulting him and plans on doing so by walling him up in the catacombs under his home Montresor devises a clever plan that will leave Fortunato clueless as to what his intensions really are Upon a closer look Montresors character is admirable Montresor carries out his plan successfully without being caught Montresor is Poes m
2 17 11 Essay I Attacks With Punishment Nobody attacks me without punishment those are not words to live your life by if you are a normal forgiving person In the story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe that is just how his main character acts For Montresor he believes revenge is a dish better served cold He stays quiet for some time and lays low He struggles with this wrong doing that Fortunto had done to him in the past And he makes his choice to take his revenge upon him by knowing o
Revenge is a scary thing Take Edgar Allen Poes The Cask of Amontiado for example In the story Montresor a cynical yet organized man seeks revenge upon Fortunado an arrogant wine enthusiast because before the story started Fortunado insulted him Apparently the insult was so harsh that it drove Montresor to homicide because he devised an intricate plan to exterminate Fortunado in the harshest way possible Due to the fact that Montresor is cunning vengeful and a good talker he is able to successfu
Anything not taken in moderation can be damaging In one of Edgar Allen Poes best known tales of horror The Cask of Amontillado he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing when one is overwhelmed with it Through the use of foreshadowing irony and symbolism Poe presents a horrific drama of two men One who will stop at nothing to get the revenge that he deems himself and his family worthy of and another whos pride will ultimately be the fall of his own death Fortunato falls prey to Montre
The Tale Within the Tale An analysis of the Cask of Amontillado When a man is pushed to his limits or goes to extremes in the sake of pride disaster can ensure Edgar Allen Poe explores these dilemmas in his short story The Cask of Amontillado Poe who is known for the dark and murderous short stories and poems he had produced in his lifetime starts the story off by introducing the reader to Montresor a man who is more than fed up with his friends disrespect The leader never learns how Fortunato
The Fall of Fortunato When Edgar Allan Poe wrote his short story The Cask of Amontillado little did he know that it would easily become one of the most criticized works in literary history A gripping tale of a hatred stemming from countless usurpations it would be hard to not see an obvious motive for murder However as Graham St John Scott discusses in his brief criticism the death of Fortunato by the hands of Montresor may delve much deeper than a lust for revenge He argues that an essence of