Bitter Sweet Revenge A friend is someone that should be trusted, but what happens when that trust no longer exists? In “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe, Fortunato is going to discover the answer. In the beginning of the story, Montresor seems quite affable, but later on the reader endures many twists and turns. Could all of the abomination be something that only Montresor understands? In divergent ways, both of these men are connoisseurs, yet both endure disposition that will
The Cask of Amontillado has an eerie and dark mood, throughout the entire story. The author uses this mood to provide mysterious imagery and to help the reader visualize an accurate setting. “Indeed it is very damp” (Poe 63). Here Poe presents the setting and sets the mood, by describing the feeling and smell of the crypts. If you have ever been in a cave, you can remember the feeling of enclosure and panic as you feel like the walls are closing in around you. This is exactly what Poe wants you to
spread throughout, causing people to do actions that under normal circumstances wouldn’t. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, an out-of-mind former noble seeks revenge by killing the person who brought him down, even though they were friends. To get the theme across to the reader, the author used tools like unreliable narrator, symbolism, and dramatic irony to show his message that revenge corrupts the minds of people, causing them to do unimaginable actions to each other. One of
he wrote to relieve his pain and frightening thoughts that possessed his mind. This man portrays his gothic style of writing through the masterpieces he wrote; this man is Edgar Allen Poe. In Poe’s writings irony is used to express his gothic style. In the short story The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato. Montresor gets Fortunato to follow him through the catacombs so that he
guilty disobedience and Montresor’s revenge upon Fortunato in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” These can all be seen as possible outcomes to what Dante defines as "love of self-perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor." Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” revolves around two characters, Montresor and Fortunato. The story starts by stating