2 17 11 Essay I Attacks With Punishment Nobody attacks me without punishment those are not words to live your life by if you are a normal forgiving person In the story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe that is just how his main character acts For Montresor he believes revenge is a dish better served cold He stays quiet for some time and lays low He struggles with this wrong doing that Fortunto had done to him in the past And he makes his choice to take his revenge upon him by knowing o
The Cask of Amontillado The narrator Montresor opens the story by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance Fortunato and that he seeks revenge He wants to exact this revenge however in a measured way without placing himself at risk He decides to use Fortunatos fondness for wine against him During the carnival season Montresor wearing a mask of black silk approaches Fortunato He tells Fortunato that he has acquired something that could pass for Amontillado a light Spanis
Montresor tells this story about the day he took his revenge on Fortunato a fellow nobleman after years of insult He plots to murder his friend during carnival when the man is drunk and wearing a jesters motley The story takes place at dusk in the streets of a nameless Italian city around the 18th century during the supreme madness of the carnival season Montresor is in route to see a friend seeking advice and verification of a recently purchased wine He sees Fortunato and starts to discuss his
Edgar Allen Poe Just the name itself conjures up images of the macabre of the horrific and of death Edgar Allan Poe was a master of suspense and seldom disappoints a reader who is looking for trepidation in his relaxation Perhaps no other author has been called upon in film as has Mr Poe with over 40 films having been adapted based on his works High praise indeed but it has been said by his critics and there have been a considerable number that many of Mr Poes works are similar of character and
A Prose Criticism The Cask of Amontillado Elaborately designed masterfully crafted and macabre to an astounding degree The Cask of Amontillado is an example of Poes typical horror short story setting A combination of irony and pure terror strewn with subversive eerie elements allow the reader to enjoy the tale on a wide range of levels Powerful and recurring themes are often attributed to Poe claiming that it is his style Some of these themes are in themselves an orb of mystery and imagination