pledged vengeance. It must be an immaculate vengeance‚ one in which Fortunato will know completely what is going on to him and in which Montresor will be perpetually undetected. To achieve it‚ Montresor holds up until jubilee season‚ a period of "preeminent frenzy‚" when Fortunato‚ officially half-smashed and costumed as a fool‚ is especially powerless. Montresor then educates him that he has acquired a funnel of Amontillado wine yet is not certain he has gotten the real thing. Having counseled Fortunato
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vision of “[dusk] one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season.” (Poe page 2) By using words like “dusk” and “madness” Poe takes away from the light atmosphere of the carnival season‚ and gives it a dark twist. Even the narrator‚ Montresor‚ is given an air of madness when described as “putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely.” (Poe page 2) This gives us the sense of how mysterious he is‚ and takes the story even further into the suspense. We also begin to see
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Allan Poe is about a murder and revenge. The story is told in first person so we don’t learn the name until the end. The protagonist ( Montresor ) is seeking for a revenge from the antagonist ( Fortunato ) who has insulted him. These two are very close friends and at the end of the story the Montresor leaves Fortunato to die in a vault. At the very end‚ Montresor tells us that the whole affair happened fifty years ago‚ and nobody has found out. . The story consists of several ironies such as time
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The short story‚ "The Cask of Amontillado‚" written by Edgar Allen Poe reveals the nature of revenge throughout the story. He writes about the narrator‚ Montresor‚ seeking revenge over Fortunato because he insulted his friend. Poe keeps the reader following along‚ as he gives hints to the readers from beginning to the end of the story. The outcome does not come out until the conclusion. His universal theme of revenge is being used in the entirety of the piece to help unveil the ending. Edgar Allen
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Araby By: James Joyce I. Elements of Fiction A. Settings The year is 1894. The place is North Richmond Street in Ireland’s largest city‚ Dublin. The street dead-ends at an empty house of two stories. Araby - the name of the bazaar B. Characters * Boy (Narrator) – the protagonist of the story‚ an adolescent who is in love with her friend’s sister. * Mangan – the boy’s best friend‚ who is about the same age with the narrator. * Mangan’s sister – the boy’s crush‚ who lives
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The first-person narration style of “The Cask of Amontillado” is essential in creating the original quality of the story. The reason this is so important in this particular story‚ is because when a sane killer‚ Montresor‚ is allowed to tell the story from his point of view‚ the reader gets a unique‚ disturbing look into the calmness of his mind. The audience can more clearly see how he thinks and feels‚ which the audience does not normally get in mainstream‚ commercial literature. The reason
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Amontillado‚" by Edgar Allan Poe and "A Rose For Emily‚" by William Faulkner the use of irony‚ symbolism‚ and imagery are used to show readers what pride‚ revenge‚ and power will do to people. The irony in "The Cask Of Amontillado" is indicated when Montresor states‚ "I continued‚ as was my wont‚ to smile in his face‚ and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation" (217). Fortunato has no idea that his "friend" is going to kill him and Fortunato
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The Darkness and Gloom of the Theme of Death Edgar Allan Poe lived a life filled with loss‚ grief‚ and suffering. It is no surprise‚ then‚ that many of his works share the theme of death. “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ “William Wilson” and “The Cask of Amontillado” all explore the theme of death; however‚ in each of these works Poe shows a different aspect of it. In “William Wilson” death is presented in an ambiguous and mysterious way‚ as the audience does not know whether William Wilson’s
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semicolons‚ before continuing on to the determining part of the sentence. One example is in line 77 where Montresor answers Fortunato’s curiosity about the pipe. Poe starts a quote by Montresor‚ then separates it with a‚ "said I‚" then continues on with the quote with a semicolon instead of a comma. He wanted to add an extra long pause because he wanted to make it obvious that Montresor was changing the subject about where the pipe was. Poe does something
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renowned hunter‚ kills the smartest prey in the world: humans. On the other hand‚ Montresor from "The Cask of Amontillado" plays the evil character as he kills Fortunato‚ a fellow member of a secret organization. But between the two‚ Zaroff is the more evil character because he kills people for entertainment and feels no remorse for his actions The first way that General Zaroff is a more evil character than Montresor is because of his motives to kill people. In "The Most Dangerous Game‚" Zaroff explains
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