Compare And Contrast Poe And The Cask Of Amontillado

In modern day life today people adjust in different situations they are put in. Their mood or personality sometimes changes due to the situation they were in. In literature today and from the past people change throughout the story. Man can change from good to bad or vice versa. Past american writers used dark romantics characteristics in there story, authors such as Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” is about two business associates that have been acquaintances for many years now. Montressor became greedy and decided to poison and bury alive his old friend fortunato after fortunato insulted him badly for too long. Montresor had enough and took action in the wrong way. In another one
In Edgar Allan Poe’s first story “The Cask of Amontillado” the main character Montressor turned from a stand up businessman to a murder and killing an acquaintance of his. Then in Poe’s second story “The Black Cat” the main character the narrator went from being a normal guy to becoming an alcoholic and a murder killing his own wife and his cat. Then Lastly, in Washington Irving's story “Tom Walker and The Devil” the main character Tom Walker goes from being an average day man to becoming a man making deals with the devil and doing his work. This dark romantic characteristic is seen in modern day books, movies and in people's personal life. In Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith Anakin Skywalker goes from being a young trained Jedi Knight who does good. Anakin though becomes a strong with the dark side and becomes evil. He kills young in training Jedi children and other Jedi Knights. Anakin then becomes part of the dark side making him pure evil and eventually making him a sith lord by the name Darth Vader. In conclusion, the dark romantic characteristic of changing from good to evil is used in past literature and modern day movies and other pieces of