Sacrifice Mood In The Cask Of Amontillado
Imagine in the woods with no flashlight all alone no one to help no one to call. Wouldn’t that be creepy? Well in the cask of Amontillado creepy is used a lot in different settings. Also characters in the Cask of Amontillado create creepy moods by what they say and what they do. This essay will show you how creepy The Cask of Amontillado is to people.
In The cask of Amontillado there is a very creepy mood. This mood is creepy because you’re walking through the catacombs of montresor's. Walking underground in a hallway of bones and skulls of humans. I know that they’re in a catacomb of montresor's because on (pg60) it says “ stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the montresor’s. This whole setting would just give me the creeps. Also in the cask of Amontillado there is a creepy mood because montresor wants to kill …show more content…
There is a lot of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something the character does not. Well montresor want to kill fortunato & fortunato doesn't know this. Montresor wants to kill fortunato because fortunato insulted montresor. Montresor has created two elements of dramatic irony here. On one hand, we understand that Fortunato, because of the unidentified "insult," has been fooled into believing that Montresor has not been offended by Fortunato's action. Also Montresor appears unaware that he has disclosed a serious character flaw. He appears to the reader as a man consumed by hatred and whose nature is deceitful--he smiles in the face of his friend even tho he is planning to destroy him. Verbal and dramatic irony combine again when Montresor "broke and reached him [Fortunato] a flagon of De Grave," which Fortunato drinks until it's gone. Poe is, of course, playing with words--the wine has a name that can be translated as "of the grave," another instance of verbal irony but, more important, another signal to the reader that Fortunato is an unaware walking dead
In The cask of Amontillado there is a very creepy mood. This mood is creepy because you’re walking through the catacombs of montresor's. Walking underground in a hallway of bones and skulls of humans. I know that they’re in a catacomb of montresor's because on (pg60) it says “ stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the montresor’s. This whole setting would just give me the creeps. Also in the cask of Amontillado there is a creepy mood because montresor wants to kill …show more content…
There is a lot of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something the character does not. Well montresor want to kill fortunato & fortunato doesn't know this. Montresor wants to kill fortunato because fortunato insulted montresor. Montresor has created two elements of dramatic irony here. On one hand, we understand that Fortunato, because of the unidentified "insult," has been fooled into believing that Montresor has not been offended by Fortunato's action. Also Montresor appears unaware that he has disclosed a serious character flaw. He appears to the reader as a man consumed by hatred and whose nature is deceitful--he smiles in the face of his friend even tho he is planning to destroy him. Verbal and dramatic irony combine again when Montresor "broke and reached him [Fortunato] a flagon of De Grave," which Fortunato drinks until it's gone. Poe is, of course, playing with words--the wine has a name that can be translated as "of the grave," another instance of verbal irony but, more important, another signal to the reader that Fortunato is an unaware walking dead