The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

As I read about different types of literary criticism, I felt compelled to apply the Marxist school of literary criticism to Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” The Fortunato appears to have a rising distinguished social status a nobleness forming an equality or possibly surpassing the Montresor. This to me demonstrates a symbolism of status the Montresor and family used to have but its declining. The success of the Fortunato creates the thousand injuries that aggravates the Montresor to plot and commit murder for revenge of the Fortunato’s success. The story has subtle clues of how the grotesque conclusion will end.
The short paragraph biography ahead of reading “The Cask of Amontillado” gave a brief background on Edgar Allen Poe. The biography states he was adopted by a wealthy business man as a result of being an
It is easy to conclude the narrator is about himself to die. You can come to this conclusion because he was not very young when he committed the murder. Fifty years later would be a very long lifespan especially during the 1800’s or prior. From the text you could argue this is an old man, easily in his seventies or eighties. What is motive to confessing such a horrible atrocity? The Montresor confesses, but he does not think of the murder a crime. From a religious view one could pose the argument that the confession is for the character to clear his conscious, a method of getting something of his chest, a hope he will rest in peace because he confessed his sin. The text has enthusiasm the Montresor is proud of his accomplishment. The calculated timing of the carnival and the cunning reversal of the victims love for wine suggest achievement. I think he confessed for to boast about his achieving moment in life, an accomplishment he knew society would not accept, but now in his old age irrelevant. On or near his deathbed, he lay free from repercussion, immune to any punishment society could