The Cask Of Amontillado And The Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell

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Everything and everyone revolves around conflict, and that includes writing. Without conflict there’s nothing exciting or suspenseful, sometimes there’s not even a story without it. “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allen Poe, and “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, have the same conflict that’s carried out differently. These short stories, based on man vs. man conflict, show there are various ways to use one type of conflict.
It all starts off with one man, one man that has a lust for blood. In “The Cask of Amontillado” this man is Montresor. Montresor is seeking revenge and he isn’t the type of man to just slap his enemy on the wrist and let it go. He makes this clear stating “ I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”(174). …show more content…

This is obviously accurate because without any prey or victims in this situation there would be no conflict. Starting off with “The Cask of Amontillado” it goes to show that the victim of this story is Fortunato. Montresor claims that Fortunato had “ventured upon insult” (174) and vowed revenge on the poor fool. Fortunato, being the drunk he is, more than likely never even to have noticed the vile words dripped off his tongue, and had now put himself in the most awful situation. Furthermore, in the other story “The Most Dangerous Game” there is also a victim that happens to be the polar opposite of Fortunato. This man is Rainsford, a skilled hunter who took a devastating fall off the side of a ship and ended up on the General’s island. On this island he’s not really seen as the victim, but instead as the prey. Rainsford also differs from Fortunato by knowing exactly how he’s going to get out of this alive, “I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable” (18). As previously stated, Rainsford is a skilled hunter, so he is his hunter’s equivalent unlike Fortunato and Montresor. Fortunato is an oblivious drunk and any sober man could have the best of him, including Montrestor. Each man’s life is in danger and yet they are in different situations in which they handle

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