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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In “The Cask of Amontillado” he writes about the coat of arms for the house Montresor. He describes it as “A huge human foot d’or‚ in a field azure‚ the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.” (Poe 99). This image is underscored with the inscription of the family motto‚ "nemo me impune lacessit‚" which
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Ripley‚ a film about a sociopath who is sent by a man’s father to retrieve his son from Italy after his son left the country and his family behind. This story takes a turn when Tom Ripley‚ the sociopath‚ kills the son‚ Dickie Greenleaf‚ and assumes his identity. Some of Hitchcock’s ideas can be uncovered in this film‚ but not all of them. The first key concept is
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Acting on revenge can either be bittersweet or deadly. Revenge is the act of “getting someone back” who has done another person wrong. The emotion one feels that could lead to revenge is anger‚ as a replacement of grief. Normally‚ the person taking revenge lets the one who has done him wrong know that he is vengeful. Other times‚ the person would act upon his revenge without letting the victim know what he is getting revenge on. Although‚ sometimes‚ an individual would just forgive the other person
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For many centuries crime is what keeps the world in order but how can people understand crime? In Criminology we are taught to understand the aspects of crime. It is very important that people crime and the different perspectives. To understand the broadness of Crime we must understand the different theories and sub-theories of crime. Throughout criminology there are many theories that help to understand crime. The theories of crime give a more intimate perspective on why people commit the crimes
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will be waiting for him at the Palazzo‚ and "Let us be gone" and Montresor’s response is "Yes." "Let us be gone." They both say the same thing‚ but to each of them it has drastically different meanings. Fortunato wants to go home‚ go to his wife. Montresor wants him to simply be gone‚ be gone from his life‚ and be gone from the world. It is an ironic play on words. However this verbal irony also can be taken as the dramatic irony as well‚ because the character Fortunato is finally beginning to see
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