* 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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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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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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Gualtieri 1 The story tells the murder that is committed by a man named Montresor‚ who wanted revenge on Fortunato‚ a man who had insulted him several times and would not withstand another insult anymore. The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him; even worse‚ Fortunato has insulted him. The narrator must get revenge. The narrator mentions he’s found a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado‚ and in a very suspicious and intelligent attracts his victim‚ taking it more
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Lying in bed‚ staring at the ceiling‚ sensing the minutes tick by for what seemed like the hundredth night in a row; Cassie knew the feeling well. Every few minutes or so her eyes would flick over to the glowing red numbers as they crawled towards the time her alarm would go off‚ signalling a new day. The demonic red numbers switched to 3:00 am; the time for sleep fell to four hours. Cassie forced an inhale‚ and then breathed out slowly. It had been hours since she had persuaded herself to lie down
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In the short story The Cast of Amontillado‚ Edgar Allan Poe shares a story about insults and revenge in action. Montresor is the protagonist who holds a grudge against the antagonist‚ Fortunato. The first sentence sets the stage for the murder of Fortunato. “The thousands injuries of Fortunate I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe‚ p. 108). It does not say what the “injuries” Montresor is referring to are‚ but in his book they were enough to murder Fortunato
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To begin‚ Levana is insane. The text exemplifies that by saying‚ “It has been ages since Levana could remember feeling such contempt...Her annoying stepdaughter was dead and she would never again have to listen to her mutterings and indulge her inane wishes too.”(Meyer) This shows that Levana is insane because she wanted her step daughter‚ princess Winter‚ dead because she was a bit crazy from lunar sickness and
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animal abuser; a cruel‚ misanthropic sociopath” (01:12-01:19). Mario is a staple of video games and has been since Nintendo created him back in 1983‚ so most people when hearing he is evil or insane would immediately disagree. I’m here to tell you why he is most definitely insane‚ Mario is clinically insane because he is a cold-blooded killer‚ he doesn’t care about his family‚ and he is abusive to the animals and the people of his own kingdom. Toads‚ these weird humanoids with a mushroom attached
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