Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

Edgar Allen Poe, poet and short story author during the Romantic movement, is notorious for his dark and twisted plots, “examining the depths of the human psyche”. Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” is a short story about a narrator who has been wronged and insulted too many times by a man named Fortunato. The readers first meet Fortunato during Carnival when he dressed as a jester and was intoxicated off of wine. The narrator entices him to follow him to his vault with the promise of tasting his impressive Amontillado alcohol and determining its authenticity. Eventually, when they arrive at the end of the catacombs, the narrator chains Fortunato to the wall and begins building a brick structure around him. Upon completion, Fortunato calls out the