The Cask Of Amontillado Suspense

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Paying someone back for their harmful actions can feel quite rewarding at times. In “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe creates a mood of suspense and eeriness to accompany his theme of revenge.
First of all, Poe develops his suspenseful and eerie mood through his imagery. The setting of the story is in the catacombs of the Montresors at Montresor's palazzo. His description of the catacombs as Montresor and Fortunato walk past “walls of piled bones”(Poe 348) and notice the niter hanging “like moss”(Poe 348) in the vaults, gives the reader a very uneasy feeling. When Poe describes a deep crypt with walls that were “lined with human remains”(Poe 348), It makes you wonder what will be ahead of them, or what will be coming up as they descend deeper into the catacombs. As they arrive at a deep crypt Poe describes how the air smelled, which made Montresor and Fortunato’s torches “rather to glow than to flame.”(Poe 348) What makes the mood even eerier is when he says how the bones “lay promiscuously upon the earth”(Poe 349)How Poe gives details about the setting adds …show more content…

Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato and makes an elaborate plan to do that, which makes the reader wonder how he is going to get his revenge. He knows what he has to do when he says that Fortunato has a weakness, “He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.”(Poe 344) Montresor is pretending to be Fortunato’s friend to get him to follow him further into the catacombs, saying things such as “ we will go back; your health is precious”(Poe 347) and “We will go back; you will be ill.”(Poe 347) This lets the reader know that Montresor's plan is elaborate and gives a sense of suspense to what Fortunato’s fate will be. Montresor is making sure that Fortunato gets something to drink and will stay drunk, allowing him to be unaware of what is happening. All of Montresor’s actions add to the suspensefulness of the

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