Theme Of Situational Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado

Poe in his story, the cask of amontillado brilliantly uses situational and verbal irony to establish his signature disturbing mood. Irony is a contrast between an expected outcome and an actual outcome. During the first part of the story, Montresor the protagonist character came across Fortunato the antagonist character, “during the supreme madness of the carnival season”(6 Poe). This is a prime example of situational irony because at a carnival the reader is expecting the event to be full of fun and enjoyment, but this did not happen because Fortunato was savagely murdered by Montresor. The situational irony also causes the mood to be one of disturbance because Poe creates a joyous setting of a carnival, but then stripes the happy connotations