Many readers will be entertained by the sinister and frightening settings, characters, and foreshadowing used in both stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game”. In both Richard Connell's “The Most Dangerous Game” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the setting is very unappealing and frightening. However, the authors do this to engage readers and make them want to hear more about this creepy place. By looking at each creepy setting that each author includes throughout the story, readers can chose which seems more enjoyable to them.
To begin, even though each setting shares similar traits, they play different roles in each story. To explain, in “The Most Dangerous Game,” the narrator explains the setting by saying, “He saw no sign of a trail through the closely knit web of weeds and trees…”(219). This setting is described to be like a jungle or forest. While the setting is a big part of the story, readers can use their knowledge of the characters and events to get an idea of what will happen next. On the other hand, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor describes the setting by saying, “The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with niter” (63). The setting is now described as a damp, dark, and cold, place. Also, the readers recognize the scary settings and they apply this to the story’s mood.
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Ultimately, readers are more engaged by “The Cask of Amontillado” because Poe wants readers to understand the creepy location versus the jungle in “The Most Dangerous Game.” End of Bod 1 After seeing the similarities and differences of the setting, readers can examine how characters, specifically protagonists, entertain readers. To explain, in “The Most Dangerous Game,” the protagonist, Rainsford, departs on an adventure where a conflict comes up leaving him in a bad situation. This situation is mentioned in the story when Rainsford falls off of the boat and the narrator explains, “ There was a chance that his cries could be heard by someone aboard the yacht, but that chance was slender, and grew more slender as the yacht moved on. He wrestled himself out of his clothes, and shouted with all his power” (218). Although this conflict is external, readers also know about who Rainsford is and what he sometimes thinks. On the other hand, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” the protagonist, Montresor, also seeks out on an adventure but, this time to kill the antagonist, Fortunato, for revenge (61). Again, this conflict is external but, readers know who Montresor is and what his reason of revenge is. Therefore, End of Bod 2 How each author uses foreshadowing early in the story to show upcoming events of death or killing is the final part for readers to examine and determine which story is more engaging.
To explain, in “The Most Dangerous Game,” foreshadowing is used throughout the story to show a dangerous place called “Ship-Trap Island” (215). This also occurs when Rainsford falls off the boat and washes up on a strange island (217-218). ADD ANALYSIS 1. On the other hand, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” the foreshadowing is used to show the revenge of Fortunato which then occurs of his death (61,68) REVISE ADD ANALYSIS 2 AND CONCLUDING
SENTENCE End of Bod 3 In conclusion, both authors help the readers understand and connect with the characters which helps with the readers be more engaged in the story. Between both stories, Poe does a better job at engaging readers. Poe does this by telling a story of brutal revenge which makes readers question these actions and want to know more. Whereas, Connell forces readers to expect the unexpected by throwing in many plot twists throughout the story.
The setting is an important part of any story, whether it be a poem or a novel. The setting consists of all the places and/or things surrounding the character at any moment through any literary or visual media. A literary setting is often full of details and vivid imagery due to the lack of visual aids that are present in videos and movies. These details often take paragraphs to describe single settings to give the reader an imaginary vision of what the area would look like. Edgar Allan Poe is no exception to these rules and he clearly writes out the setting for his short stories and poems. Poe does an excellent job of using details to describe the setting of his stories and shows great care in choosing the wording of each description he makes to display his exact intentions for each descriptive setting. In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Poe, the setting has a direct correlation with the mood in the story. The further into the story you read, the deeper and darker the surroundings of the two main characters get, just like the main plot of the story.
The mood established by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," plays a crucial role in conveying to the reader his underlying theme. For example, when Montresor, the narrator, st...
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” utilize character responsibilities to create a sinister plot. For Hawthorne, protagonist Young Goodman Brown must leave his wife at home while he partakes in a night journey. For Poe, ancillary Fortunato covets a pretentious manner towards his wine tasting skills, and after being ‘challenged’ decides to prove his expertise by sampling Amontillado. Hawthorne and Poe showcase a theme of darkness but differ in their approach to the setting, characters, and fate of entrapment.
The Case of Amontallido In a psychological perspective, the author’s life is linked with the behavior and motivations of characters in the story. The author’s name is Edgar Allan’s Poe who portrayed his self in his writing. The miserable life of Poe can be measured through “The Cask of Amontillado” in which character named “Montressor” showed indifferent feeling towards his victim. After burying Fortunado alive, Montressor felt bad after burying his victim alive but then he attributes the feeling of guilt to the damp catacombs.
Another example of foreshadowing is the clues to the death of the Marquis St. Evremonde. The people that want a revolution hate the Marquis. “That I believe our name to be more detested then any name in France” from Charles Darnay to the Marquis (113). The Marquis hears this and reply’s “’A compliment’, said the Marquis, ‘to the grandeur of the family’”(showing that he is completely oblivious to what is going on in France)(113). This is foreshadowing that the people will probably punish the Marquis. The final event is when the Marquis’s coach ran over a child and he replied “’It is extraordinary to me, said he ‘ that you people cannot take care of yourselves and you children’”(102). Then Defarge throws his coin back into the carriage, showing his anger. This event angers the people, and is a key part in the foreshadowing of the Marquis’s death.
The setting of a story sets the tone for the entire piece. Without the appropriate setting, what the author is trying to express is lost. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses the setting as a way to set the stage for the events that will come. Poe’s settings make his stories interesting, as well as easy to understand because of his descriptiveness and writing techniques. His use of vivid details and symbols in his settings intrigue the readers and set a particular tone. Each and every setting has a direct meaning and reason attached to that of the story and time.
An important element in any story is setting. Authors use setting to convey certain feelings brought on by the character’s surroundings. It also subliminally serves to illustrate the character’s intentions. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe uses the dark, imposing setting to do just that, communicate the underlying theme of the story, being death, revenge and deception.
Edgar Allan Poe has a style that is dark and morbid. His tone is very gloomy and obscure. The tone of “The Cask of Amontillado” is almost tame compared to the tone of “The Black Cat”, his other work we covered. The tone of that work is almost maddening. “The Cask of Amontillado” tone is very sinister and methodic. Whereas “The Black Cat”, has a pulse to a cadence and rhythm though no clear pattern is established. Poe’s style of writing seems so personal, as a reader I had to remind myself this was fiction. His first-person style of writing is so detailed and intricate it is very easy to become invested in the world he creates. “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Black Cat” both have themes of revenge where the supposed victim is untimely
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is a frightening and entertaining short story about the severe consequences that result from persistent mockery and an unforgiving heart. Poe’s excellent use of Gothicism within the story sets the perfect tone for a dark and sinister plot of murder to unfold. “The Cask of Amontillado” simply overflows with various themes and other literary elements that result from Poe’s Gothic style of writing. Of these various themes, one that tends to dominant the story as a whole is the theme of revenge, which Poe supports with his sophisticated use of direct and indirect factors, irony, and symbolism.
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Edgar Allan Poe's strong use of symbols throughout "The Cask of Amontillado" is what makes this story worthy of examination. The clever use of these devices by the author to shape this horrifying and gripping short story has made this piece be regarded as a classic American horror story, which revolves around the theme of vengeance and pride.
The disposition of Edgar Allan Poe, which is crucial to the development of a reader’s understanding, can be identified and interpreted in all of his texts. We see present his unnatural relation between the orders of things that are usually separate like rationality and madness. His representation of events which are uncanny, or melodramatically violent, and often deal with aberrant psychological states that get the reader and protagonists to question their senses. Poe’s use of pathos to develop his characters and the emotions of the readers are evidently critical to his stories as well. As we see in “The Cask of Amontillado” resentment is what drove our narrator to commit the cynical act of entombing his enemy alive then burning him. Emotions like fear, anger, and sadness are emotions that are also evident his other stories. In “The Cask of Amontillado” our phenomenological experience occurs right when the story begins as we see the story develops in the first-person point of view. Poe