Why do people love horror movies? Is it the feeling of your nerves on edge, or is it the thought that there Might be something else out there? People just seem to enjoy the horror and suspenseful movies that are produced in this day and age. But its not only the movies that have caught people's attention, but the horror story. Now they are preserved in books and are all over the internet. And yet, movies seem to be the best at displaying horror and catching the observer's attention. However, there is still one story that all successful horror writings and producers come back too, one that was written by Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask in Amontillado has three things that help it to be a successful horror story, these are: (1) he has a twisted main character, (2) the reader starts to put together the pieces in the story, (3) The main character kills another character.
The first reason why The Cask in Amontillado is extraordinary is because it has a twisted main character. What good is a Horror story of the character isn’t a nutjob? In The Cask in Amontillado, it says on page 61,” It must...
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a mystery that offers great suspense and interest. This is because of the irony that Poe creates and the setting that makes a dangerous mood and foreshadows the victim’s death. In the beginning of the story, the narrator meets a man named Fortunato at an Italian carnival with the intentions for murdering him in the foreseeable future. The narrator talks with Fortunato saying, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met,” (1). These first words spoken by the narrator show verbal irony because the narrator is not really saying that they met luckily. In fact, as I stated before, the narrator was planning this encounter, with the plan ending with Fortunato’s death. This proves to be suspenseful for the reader because they want to discover Fortunato’s actual fate while wishing they could tell Fortunato of the
Baraban, Elena V. "The Motive for Murder in 'The Cask of Amontillado'." Rocky Mountain Review 58.2 (Fall 2004): 47-62. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 111. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 7 Dec. 2010.
Symbolism is something that represents more than what it really is. It is often by authors in their writing to give it more emphasis. For example:" In life there will always be peaks and valleys" meaning in life there will be ups and downs but we should enjoy the peaks and fight through the valleys. Objects can also be a form of symbolism such as The Bible, it represents more than just a book. It represents Life, Church, Religion, and the life of Jesus Christ and what he stood for. Irony is like a twist or words or the opposite of what is intended. For example: Laughing at someone that just slipped and fell, then later you find yourself slipping and falling is a form of irony. Irony is found in real life situations as well as writings. Symbolism is a technique that gives authors a better story and shows objects as more than what they are. They use techniques like this to catch the reader’s attention.
“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allen Po is a compelling short story bursting with suspense and horror. Many consider the story one of the most macabre Po has ever written. The basic plot line is about a psychotic man who traps his friend in a catacomb and walls up the exit. “The Cask of Amontillado,” is an extremely suspenseful story because it combines foreshadowing, expert character development, and skilled word choice into a riveting tale of horror.
"The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories. In this story Poe introduces two central characters and unfolds a tale of horror and perversion. Montresor, the narrator, and Fortunato, one of Montresor's friends, are doomed to the fate of their actions and will pay the price for their pride and jealousy. One pays the price with his life and the other pays the price with living with regret for the rest of his life. Poe uses mystery, irony, and imagery to create a horrifying, deceptive, and perverse story.
How could the author express death without clearly saying it? The short stories “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe both use foreshadowing in similar and different ways. Firstly, in “The Scarlet Ibis” the author writes, “It’s so calm, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a storm this afternoon.” (Hurst 321). He is foreshadowing that the storm that will come, which represents bad things like Doodle dying. In addition, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the author also foreshadows a bad event taking place, “And I to your long life.” (Poe 235). Allen Poe wrote referring to Montresor making a toast to Fortunato’s long life which is foreshadowing a bad event or the death of Fortunato. In contrast, in “The Scarlet Ibis” the author presents the foreshadowing by saying a storm is coming, and in “The Cask of the Amontillado” the author is using a toast declared by one of the characters.
In the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator named Montresor seeks revenge on a character named Fortunato for hurting and insulting him. The author uses many different types of literary devices to give off a careless and hateful tone. Some of the main literary devices he uses are irony and foreshadowing.
The first –person narration style of “The Cask of Amontillado” is vital in creating the quality of the story. The story allows one of the main characters in the story Montresor, to tell the story from his point of view which gives the reader intimate yet disturbing look into the mind story teller thinks and feels which the reader doesn’t normally get from other narrative styles. The narrative style of this story is important because it sets the tone of the story. The reader become more familiar with the thoughts and intentions of the main character and this allows the reader to slightly figure out the outcome of the story and further understand the ironies throughout the story. If this story was told from a different angle I don’t believe it would be as powerful. First person narration
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Gothic literature is known for captivating readers by bringing to light the dark side of humanity. The Gothic possesses many key elements such as paranoia, anxiety, death, etc. It strikes fear and suspense in the reader not by creating fictional monsters, but showing the reader the types of monsters that lurk within human beings. In “the Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, various themes of the Gothic are present throughout the short story such as gloom and doom, darkness, and madness. These elements are used to enhance the central theme of the piece: revenge. I will argue that Poe uses a number of the Gothic elements to craft an intense dark tale of revenge: an unreliable narrator, madness, darkness, a haunted setting, and evil/devil
Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and revenge, “The Cask of Amontillado”, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, because the reader knows very little about the thoughts of the antagonist, Fortunato. The setting of “The Cask of Amontillado”, in the dark catacombs of Montresor’s wine cellar, contributes to the story’s theme that some people will go to great lengths to fanatically defend their honor.
The first-person narration style of "The Cask of Amontillado" is essential in creating the original quality of the story. The reason this is so important in this particular story, is because when a sane killer, Montresor, is allowed to tell the story from his point of view, the reader gets a unique, disturbing look into the calmness of his mind. The audience can more clearly see how he thinks and feels, which the audience does not normally get in mainstream, commercial literature. The reason the narration style is so important to the tone of the story, is because it lets the reader become personally acquainted with the thoughts and intentions of the main character, and since the reader somewhat knows the outcome from the beginning, it allows certain ironies to make sense to the reader. Furthermore, were it told from a different perspective, I do not believe the story would have been as psychologically powerful.
Edgar Allen Poe creates suspense within “The Cask of Amontillado” by foreshadowing events, using irony and withholding information to influence the reader to continue on reading and to recognize the secrets of the story. Foreshadowing is an essential part of suspense that is widely used by Poe to give a brief insight of the outcome of the story to the reader. At the beginning of the story Montresor is presented wearing “a mask of black skill”(5). In contrast, Fortunato perceives to be wearing a “conical cap and bells” (4). The difference between the two characters foreshadows what kind of personality they posses and their true intentions. Considering that the reader is already given evidence that Fortunato will be harmed: “I will not only
Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer in writing detective stories and horror stories. One of his horror stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” was talking about how a man took his revenge to his friend. However, to look deeply in this story, I found that this story was not just simply a horror tale about how a man gets his revenge in the safest way. Instead, it also demonstrates much irony in several areas: the title, the event, the season, the costume, the environment, the characters’ personalities, a man’s dignity and cockiness and at the end, the public order. he are
Poe starts out with a man, by the name of Montresor, wanting revenge on another man, named Fortunato. Most of the story takes place deep in the Montresor family catacombs. As Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs, he chains Fortunato up to a small hole in a wall, bricks it over, and leaves Fortunato to die. Even through the traits of anger, hatred, and revenge, as the story progresses on, Montresor, the main character in “The Cask of Amontillado”, starts to show signs of feeling guilty for wanting to murder Fortunato.