Essay On The Cask Of Amontillado

The author of the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe is known for writing dark and disturbing stories. Many of his characters are murderers who are completely and utterly insane. This fact is also true in the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. A man by the name of Montresor decides that he has had enough with another man named Fortunato so he decides to kill him in a quite gruesome way. Throughout the story Poe conveys a dark disturbing mood through the use of terrifyingly realistic dialogue and frightening sensory details that would make anyone think twice about trusting even their closest friends.

One way that the author, Poe, uses his terrifyingly realistic dialogue is when the main character, Montresor, constantly uses reverse psychology on people to do what he wants them to do. “As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If anyone has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me-” “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.” “And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own.” From this section it is easy to tell that Montresor is using Fortunato's pride to his advantage. After this it was Fortunato who
The author Poe knew exactly how to convey that feeling of darkness across to his readers using many sensory details. Poe also knew precisely how to make the dialogue in this story also seem dark. Montresor may have been a crazy psychopath, but he sure knew how to play at people’s pride and emotions as shown by his frequent use of reverse psychology. It was not Montresor who led Fortunato to his doom it was Fortunato himself and his pride. The dialogue between the two characters conveys just that. The story “The Cask of Amontillado” had very realistic dialogue scenes and frequent use of vivid sensory details that all conveyed that message of a dark and disturbing mood