Comparing Cask Of Amontillado And Night Of The Hunter

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Today I am going to be comparing the article “Cask of Amontillado” by Poe to the film “Night of the Hunter” by Laughton. This is the first time I compared an article to a film, and I feel very interested to do this. Both movies share scary scenes, and I will be trying to compare their similarities and differences. So, let’s begin. Both the story and the film had many uses of irony in them. Poe and his short story of “Cask of Amontillado” use more dramatic irony, while the film “Night of the Hunter” uses more verbal irony. When Poe uses verbal irony is when he makes Montresor say “And I to your long life.” (Poe, 3) to Fortunato when the audience knows that he is going to be murdered. This is also an example of verbal irony because Montresor does not mean what he is actually saying. An example of verbal irony in Laughton’s film “Night of the Hunter”, is when Harry Powell says, “I am not an evil guy.” This is verbal irony because Harry Powell has killed 25 widows before this, and he is also using his handsome looks to lull women in so he can kill them without an outside influence. …show more content…

Poe likes to use imagery to give the reader an image of what is really going on while Laughton likes to use darker scenes, music, and angles to show the audience that danger is up ahead. In “Cask of Amontillado”, Poe explains to the readers how the catacombs really are by narrating this, “Deeper into the ground we went, past still more bones.” (Poe, 4) This makes the scene dark because if you go deeper into the ground, the area would seem more dark, and don’t forget the use of bones! Laughton makes the scene very dark by using canted angles and stairways to make other people seem smaller and weaker while Harry is ether looking for them, or trying to kill them. While Willa Harper was being killed, she was encased in a coffin because of the outside lights, and that told the audience that she is about to

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