Brittany Bohman Ms. Green English 12 9/17/14 “The Cask of Amontillado” 1. Montresor comes off as unreasonable and a brutal killer. He starts off by presenting himself as kind of knowing his motivations and his strive for good will. Since he mentions positive characteristics‚ Fortunato indicates the care for his death. Fortunato could have done something so awful that it merits the action that Montressor takes. 2. As the story goes on‚ the setting changes profusely. The setting changes
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A Worn Path by Eudora Welty illustrates a woman making a journey through the forest where she is in tuned with nature‚ but slowly becomes confined when she arrives at the city. A Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe shows how characters go back and forth from feeling free or trapped. In both “A Worn Path” and “The Cask of Amontillado” the authors describes the emotions of the characters by using the setting‚ “A Worn Path” the setting of the story is the actual path she was taking through the forest
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In everyday life‚ we see many examples of the flaws of humans and narrators. For example‚ CNN and Fox News are both news channels who usually have the same stories that they report on. CNN could report on the story from a more Liberal standpoint but Fox News could report on the same story but from a more Conservative standpoint. Whose story would you trust? That is the main flaw about our society and about people in general‚ is that we lie or re-write a story to fit what we believe or what we want
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1. Holmes and De Burger identify 4 types of serial killers. Which type do you consider the most dangerous to society and why? Identify a serial killer of that type and explain why he fits into that particular category. The type of serial killer I find to be the most dangerous to society is the hedonistic type‚ because I have noticed that they are in the category of killers most likely to kill slowly‚ and to drag out the pain their victims feel. John Wayne Gacy was one such serial killer‚ as a
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the nervousness which had dominion over me” this shows that he was fear full of Madaline death. In the story “The cask of Amontillado” Poe shows the conflict when Montresor traps fortunate in the catacombs “unsheathing my rapper I began to grope with it about the recess I but the thought of an instant reassured me” this shows how Montresor is afraid of killing Fortunato. In the story “The Masque of The Red Death” Poe shows the conflicted by saying “and one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed
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die in the vault‚ although it may not have buried ancestors of Montresor’s. Fortunato is coerced into the small opening and chained to the wall. The tiny vault represented his finally loss of freedom. The setting could also represent the mind of Montresor. It is revealed that he was retelling the story‚ so his mind is trapped along with Fortunato’s corpse. It is possible he felt guilt and could not get over his misdeeds or it was just a madness festering in his
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Marvin Garantoza Liz Smith English 1B 26 September 2014 The Eerie and Bizarre of Poe Through all the deaths and fatality of his stories‚ Edgar Allan Poe is a man of stories that are eerie and bizzare. Poe is best known for his dark and gothic fiction where it seemed very uncomfortable to read but yet pleasing to the reader. His themes in his stories would deal with death that would include physical signs‚ effects of decomposition‚ and premature burial. In the book Literature: An Introduction
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life is a fair trade for the life of your son? No‚ of course not‚ your son was an innocent‚ just starting out in life and had done no wrong. But the killer was a lifetime criminal‚ convicted of many crimes of similar nature. So the life of that sociopath is no fair trade whatsoever. Do you feel better about your son’s death now that he will die too? Again‚ no you don’t‚ not at all. Any decent human being would not feel justice was served. But you would have closure
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and or what you do. In both “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ and “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ Richard Connell‚ the main characters suffer from hubris‚ which has tragic consequences. In “The Cask of Amontillado” this theme is apparent with Montresor when he says “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚
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There are many psychological disorders that we have studied through the years. The categories for most of them are anxiety‚ personality‚ and dissociative disorders. The one that has helped identify the majority of criminals is antisocial personality disorder. This disorder is one that develops early in people‚ as early as the age of three‚ and as stated before can lead the person to become a criminal. However‚ if the person who has this disorder is raised well he could end up being a hero of
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