The Cask Of Amontillado Compare And Contrast

Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest and Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado, are two very different, stories, authors and genres written in the 1800’s. Both of these stories explore the realm of immoral actions, but contrast with the endings . In Wilde’s play, he depicted how lying is immoral, then used the protagonist Jack as a negative example, to show why one should be honest. In Cask of Amontillado, the reader is told a story where the main protagonist Montresor, plots,plans and performs the murder of his acquaintance Fortunato out of revenge.
The main place The Importance of Being Earnest and The Cask of Amontillado, contrast in the styles of endings they have. The Importance of Being Earnest ends with a “happy ending”,