brown‚ padded-less chairs‚ with an acrid smell swarming in the air Security Guard: Montresor‚ do we have a Montresor? Montresor: We have a Montresor‚ but do we have an angry security guard? As the security guard looked up at the puny Montresor‚ he took him by the back and pushed him aggressively into the interrogation room. Montresor: Wow‚ looks like someone has an acute temper Interrogator: Take a seat Montresor: Very well‚ may we begin? Interrogator: I have been
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world‚ there are two types of crazy people: there are the persistent kinds‚ where they show their insanity as much as possible whether they know it or not. Then there are the kinds like Montresor‚ where you can never tell until they have finally snapped. Edgar Allan Poe uses Montresor’s kind and symbolism in “The Cask of Amontiado” to show situational irony. The beginning of the story starts with a paragraph on Montresor’s vividly detailed hatred for Fortrunado and how he’s achieved in alluding Montresor’s
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Eduardo Urdaneta Montresor and Fortunato are best friends who also work together. Montresor has been traveling a lot lately due to his recent promotion in his position. He has just received a notice from his boss that he must go attend several conferences in Spain for a month. Upon receiving the undesirable news‚ Montresor’s wife‚ Chardonnay gets very upset but eventually acknowledges that traveling this much is essential to the new position that he holds now. Montresor knows that these four
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In our current day and age‚ our society has been unsuccessful in dealing with the mentally insane and the mentally challenged. Our current legal scholars focus on debating the legal rights and challenges of the inhabitants of mental institutions. Obviously‚ those deemed insane in medieval England did not fare much better and in fact encountered even more difficulties by the very nature of society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The king claimed jurisdiction over crimes and felonies
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Watch as Macbeth drives himself insane trying to claim the throne. He hears that the Thane of Cawdor died and he could become king. The Thane of Glamis develops an ambition to be king and kills Duncan‚ who is already the king. Killing Duncan drives Macbeth insane‚ and eventually‚ he loses all feelings towards life or death and goes numb. Since Macbeth’s ambition is to become king he is willing to do anything‚ but because of this‚ he begins to go psychotic by the end of the play. Macbeth’s ambition
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In the story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” my theme for this story is that it doesn’t take an insane person to kill another person. This is the theme for this story because the main character may seem insane‚ but there is a chance he might not be. One the other hand‚ some people might not agree and think he is insane. One possibility people would agree with is where he says he isn’t mad. In the story‚ the narrator says‚ “... but why will you say that I am mad? I heard all things in the heaven
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* Discuss the speaker’s attitude towards their victim. What kind of attitude will trigger a murder? Insane as it may sound‚ a negative attitude might actually induce a man to kill. Indeed‚ attitude determines destiny. In Edgar Allan Poe’s two short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ both speakers illustrate malicious and secretive attitudes towards their victims who both end up dead in a brutal way. First of all‚ a malicious attitude can be sensed in the two
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and wanted to commit suicide. These things that have happened to him‚ or people around him‚ have created a mental freak out of Hamlet. Infact‚ since the very beginning‚ Hamlet has acted like a mad person. No point during this play has he not been insane. In the early couple of stages during this play‚ Hamlet sees a ghost. One would think that this is real and just part of the story‚ until you find out that his mother does not see the ghost (the mother is mentally stable.) This is a sign of
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The Cask Of Amontillado The story was written by Edgar Allan Poe and took place during carnival season in Italy in 1846. In the story the author used the first person narration style and this keeps the originality of the story. The reader get to know exactly what the protagonist was thinking because he was telling the story. So the effect is that he let the audience feel the main character which was Montressor. And this gives a better understanding of the story. We see that Montressor revenged
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Hamlet Insane or “Antic Disposition”? Is Hamlet mad? This is a question that has plagued the minds of generations of readers and critics‚ and is one that has drawn various analyses and theories. Hamlet’s sanity is not just an academic debate‚ but also one that is contemplated by every reader and viewer of the play when he plays the play again and again in his mind since the fact whether he is sane or not affects the perceptions of the reader in many significant ways. However‚ before
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