The Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

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The Cask of Amontillado
“Nemo me lacessit,” translates to “no one attacks me with impunity”. The Cask of Amontillado; A short story of revenge, pride, and deception. Ultimately, power over another individual by finding the thumbscrews of people strategically plain in a formless manner. Many powerful laws are included to extract the result of careful planning and execution to not place the narrator, Montressor, at risk of facing consequences of his own for the optimum crime against another individual. Mr. Edgar Allan Poe alludes the audience through many visual interpretations in the specific attire of the characters, and the route taken leading Fortunato down the dark path of deception perceived as a friendly encounter.
Mr. Poe gains the audience’s sentiment by placing the audience in the narrator’s vision for justice. Details are withheld, as the trial and execution of revenge have already been visualized and established en route to Fortunato’s final …show more content…

blue collar, and the shame caused for slander and insult. The formlessness of the narrator allowed the audience further into speculation as we are led through the catacombs containing the remains and marks of the Montressor family. Mr. Poe specifically describes physical damage to the Montressor family remains fallen from a wall laid in honor of the family tradition. Honoring the family name plays credence to the disregard of a human life. The audience is led to assume and allude to the possibility of what may have occurred through indignity of Fortunato’s behavior in many instances of the short story. Sarcasm and veiled conversation allows the audience into the mind of the narrator whom the events play out in his favor from the first word to the last and final comment. The hidden details tell a deeper story as it allows the audience to wonder about the prefix to the events

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