“Amontillado” book questions pg.181 #1-12 1. Montresor admits that “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge‚” was the reason that motivated him to commit that crime. 2. According to Montresor‚ he says that the perfect crime “ must not only punish‚ but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who
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Insanity in a Sane World Holden Caulfield is an insane person in a sane world. What is insanity? Insanity is when you’re in a state of mind that prevents normal perception‚ behavior or social interaction. This state is mental illness. Insanity is when you do things in deranged or outrageous ways that could frighten people‚ or make people feel uncomfortable when around you. It’s when you do things out of the ordinary; yet feel as if they are ordinary. Insanity could come about when you’re depressed
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Contrasts of Fortunato and Montresor Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories always attract our attention by the images of murders‚ terrors‚ madmen‚ and mysteries. “The Cast of Amontillado” is Poe’s famous short story‚ which presents us a cold-blooded murder and two persons with personality flaws. This essay will make a contrast between the two characters by analyzing their characteristics and their psychological changes as the plot develops in order to understand the theme of this story. First
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Oliver Clothesoff Mr. Freud ENG 4U1 January 9‚ 2008 Is Billy Pilgrim Sane? Billy Pilgrim plays a very influential role as the main character in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5. Since the novel is based entirely on Billy Pilgrim’s interaction with the environment around him‚ pinpointing Billy’s state of sanity on the scale of normality helps the reader determine what is really happening‚ and what is a figment of Billy’s imagination. Before making the decision regarding Billy’s state
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Montresor the True Murderer In the story "the Cask Of Amontillado" Montresor proves to be a killer of many skills. The story begins when Montresor is seeking revenge upon Fortunato for an unknown reason. Although through out the story Montresor acts to be his friend. Throughout the story Montresor expresses many qualities of a stealthy and accurate murderer. Montresor later tricks poor Fortunato into going into a vault with him because Fortunato trusted him and he was most likely drunk. Montresor
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have been a success. Just as in “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ Poe utilizes irony to amplify the horror and tension in “The Cask of Amontillado”. In “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ a murderer‚ Montresor‚ plans a clever revenge scheme using many small parts to bring the plan together. Montresor’s plan is to make the person he is avenging to feel guilt and die in pain‚ but in the end‚ Montresor is the man feeling guilty and living a life of pain. In both those stories‚ Poe uses irony against the protagonist
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Hamlet: A Sane Man Hamlet was indeed a very sane man. He was only feigning madness to further his own plans for revenge. His words were so cleverly constructed that others will perceive him as mad. It is this consistent cleverness that is the ultimate evidence of his complete sanity. Can a mad person be so clever? No‚ a mad person cannot. Hamlet is sane and brilliant. After Hamlet‚ Horatio‚ and Marcellus see the ghost‚ Hamlet tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness". If Horatio
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and Theme Compared Through the Stories “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Scarlet Ibis” In “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Scarlet Ibis” dark symbols and tones shape the plot‚ which allows man’s inhumanity to man‚ as a theme‚ to be expected. Both authors use imagery to allow readers to paint a picture of each setting in their mind. Also‚ each author adds in many symbols to make a concrete object into an abstract idea. In “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Scarlet
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The missing person was reported by one of the victim’s friend‚ Mr. Montresor. We are currently specking to his wife Lady Forunato. She says she last got into a fight with her husband about carnival and not drinking in large amounts as usual. She later stated that he left angrily stating that he works for the money this house for every damn thing and if he wants to drink wine he will drink as much as he desires. She later states that she felt a great disdain for her husband at that time. I was waiting
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Hamlet: Insane or Not? The story of Hamlet is undoubtedly one of the most famous stories in the whole wide world of literature. It features everything one would wish for in a tale: death‚ love‚ injustice‚ revenge‚ doubt‚ and eventually‚ (in)sanity. How is it with the latter‚ though? Was the main protagonist of Shakespeare’s most famous play a real madman? Was he faking lunacy to baffle the others? Or did periods of sanity and insanity fluctuate throughout the course of the story? These are the
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