What Does The Cask Of Amontillado Represent

As Edgar Allen Poe described the use of colors in the Cask of Amontillado, he also shows details of the specific places. While Montresor is one of the few character involved in the story, another character, who is the one that eventually died at the end is Fortunato. The places Fortunato encounters with Montresor does included specific Gothic views. One of the places Edgar Allan Poe shares in the story would be the time both characters are in the catacombs. Catacombs are normally a place for many people in the medieval era to be buried. The catacombs are introduced in the novel as a place where Montressor is using to seek revenge on Fortunato. But, as they walk thought these catacombs, it tells us in the novel that it gets darker and darker the further you walk. Showing that it is death all around both character walking in this
Throughout the entire novel, The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor seeks to get revenge on Fortunato. This has a significant meaning as there are chances that mental illness could also involve with Poe himself, but also Montressor. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor gets away with murder. There have been a lot discussed opinions of details about whether Montresor should have gotten away with the murder of Fortunato saying it as “Capital Punishment”. During the story, laws are not ever discussed. As punishment was not enforced at this time, it only shows how murder was involved. As it states that, “not only did Montresor feel no guilt, but he perceives his murder of Fortunato as a successful act of vengeance and punishment” (Baraban 49). Edgar Allan Poe