The Cask Of Amontillado Research Paper

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“Cask of Amontillado” The Cask of Amontillado is a 1846 short story written by Edgary Allan Poe. Poe is very know for his dark and cryptic fictions stories. Most of his fiction stories are about revenge, they all have some sort of twist to them. I think that most of his stories also include and incorporate his life detailed within them. With some research Edgar Allen Poe dealt with sickness, death and addiction. If you read most of Poe’s stories most of them have a death in them, he makes it known that he is scared of death as he seen it throughout his whole life. When critically analyze the settings, “The Cask,” he was developed by the story line showcasing movement from freedom and confinement. Poe used tone and significant devices to deliver precise information that the readers couldn’t understand. While reading the short story I came across Poe using a lot of literary devices to present understood information that the readers would not predict would happen next. Verbal irony presented within the story, I see this when Poe names a victim Fortunato (Poe,1846), which if it was a real seen would mean “fortunate” in Italian; in this case he adds and …show more content…

I see this when Fortunato started making fun of and insulting Montresor, and then all the sudden agrees to conform to his trust and accepts his offer to drink with him. For someone who was also making fun of and insulting people with insults and ad words, I believe it is difficult for someone to ever trust or even believe a word that someone can say. I myself do not think that after someone did that to a person how someone could ever forgive or even forget that. To not only go and have drinks with him but to be within the same distance and house is absurd. Montresor someone convinces Fortunato to go father, “the most remote end of the crypt.” He is misguided by trust that he is then buried alive under a wall of bricks, this was all brought on by the trust he gave

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