Psychological Analysis of Rashomon Psychological Analysis of Rashomon Rashomon‚ by Ryunosaki Akutaguya provides great insight into the psychological discord that the Japanese culture was undergoing in the early part of the twentieth century. Japan was in the throes of a societal transformation‚ from a traditional‚ religious-based society‚ to a newly adopted weternized culture. Japan was rapidly assimilating industrial and scientific techniques and philosophies that were in conflict with‚ and
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her hands. Creasy and Montresor clearly display similar actions through their desire for revenge‚ their course of action‚ and their vindictive outcomes. In “The Cask of Amontillado” there is no justification as to why Montresor wants to seek revenge on Fortunato. He describes his personal reasons in the well known first line of the story‚ “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe‚ 1.). Montresor mentions that he had been
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Montresor did not understand Fortunato’s hand gesture‚ but he says he is a mason. When Fortunato does not believe him‚ Montresor shows him a trowel. Fortunato says that Montresor is jesting‚ and they continue walking. They walked into a crypt‚ where its walls had been lined with human remains. Fortunato and Montresor see a little niche‚ where Montresor tells Fortunato that the Amontillado is there. Fortunato walks into the niche and a few seconds later‚ Montresor chains up Fortunato
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Mind After the murder‚ Montresor started to feel bad about what he had done to his friend. In the story‚ the “Cask of Amontillado” Poe creates a mood using vengeance‚ desperation‚ and severity. These moods all show that the story is disturbing. In the story‚ it shows that Montresor wants vengeance on Fortunato because he made fun of his family. When Montresor takes him to his house to kill him‚ Fortunato reveals a cough that sounds like "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!"(Poe 868). Then Montresor lets them still go farther
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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
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In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe the main character in each story‚ Mathilde from “The Necklace” and Montresor from “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ seek revenge. In “The Necklace”‚ Guy de Maupassant takes the reader through the story of a woman who is invited to a ball but does not have a fancy ensemble like the other women attending the ball. Mathilde turns to her friend‚ Madame Forestier‚ and beseeched her to let Mathilde borrow one of her elegant
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Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe’s application of “negative capability” is defined in the ambiguous motives that Montresor possess in the murder of his old friend‚ Fortunato. Negative capability is defined in the way that an author can pursue a deeply compelling vision of artistic meaning‚ yet the work of art leads to a vision of confusion or uncertainty. In this manner‚ Montresor never really reveals the motives of revenge that he actualizes in the death of Fortunato‚
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Amontillado‚” a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ follows a revengeful man named Montresor and his calculated quest against an unsuspecting man called Fortunato. The story‚ told from Montresor’s point of view‚ takes place surrounding the jubilant celebration of carnival. Montresor lures the naive Fortunato into the ominous catacombs. Montresor proceeds to intoxicate Fortunato and lead him to his death‚ resulting in Montresor fulfilling his revenge. However the reason for it remains unidentified. Through
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ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge‚” Pg. 1612). But what exactly is it that has infuriated Montresor to the point of “punish(ing) (Fortunato) with impunity?” Montresor was obviously insulted in some way by Fortunato‚ but how? The first thing that he mentions when he is planning his revenge is Fortunato’s weakness‚ and that is that‚ “he prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.” (1612). Montresor informs us that in everyday life Fortunato is a “quack”‚ but when it comes to wine he really
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review First and foremost the title of Poe’s story‚ the cask of Amontillado means “en tønne med en halv tørr sherry” and is an expensive wine from Italy. This short story is a psychological horror or gothic fiction about two men‚ Fortunato and Montresor. This sarcastic anecdotes setting is dark and mysterious‚ however the mood is tense and hair-raising. Further out in the short story you get the feeling that something horrendous is going to happen and Poe uses an enigmatical element to create an
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