“The Cask of Amontillado” and “Annabel Lee” were written by Edgar Allan Poe. “Annabel Lee” is a poem about love that turned into an obsession. The speaker was never able to get over Annabel Lee and continued to sleep in her grave. On the other hand‚ “The Cask of Amontillado” is a short story about revenge and how it’s pursued. Montresor takes vengeance to the extremes when he basically kills his offender by locking in a niche in his catacombs.Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery and amorous word choice to
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“Amontillado” book questions pg.181 #1-12 1. Montresor admits that “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge‚” was the reason that motivated him to commit that crime. 2. According to Montresor‚ he says that the perfect crime “ must not only punish‚ but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who
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After reading "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Cask of Amontillado‚" I believe that Montresor is the least sympathetic out of the characters in both stories. In Flannery O’Connor’s story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find‚" we are introduced to The Misfit‚ who obviously has a few loose screws. His actions and the little empathy that he shows towards human life leads us to believe that he is a sick man. A sick man with no motive for his wickedness. In O’Connor’s short story‚ The Misfit claims the lives
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Edgar Allen Poe’s short story "The Cask of Amontillado" is about a man named Montresor‚ who is seeking revenge on his so called friend Fortunado. Montresor did not achieve a perfect revenge. Montresor had two rules on how to achieve a perfect revenge. The first rule was to not get caught. The second was to let Fortunado know why he was doing it. In order to find out why Montresor did not achieve a perfect revenge the reader will have to read the story. To start with‚ Montresor had two rules on how
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe the father of the detective genre wrote a multitude of stories with ironic twists and turns the three I have chosen to write about are The Cask of Amontilado‚The Tell Tale Heart‚ and The Masque of The Red Death. Each of these has specific points of irony and other more subtle parts. The Cask of Amontilado is of course about a man who murders another by convincing him he has a rare wine and convincing his victim that they are good friends and he should trust him only
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Pauline Faivre Ec‚ Spring session Teacher : Philip Lindholm 21th April 2013 the cleverness of words Verbal Irony in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” The protagonist of “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ Montresor‚ appears to be friendly and trustworthy although he actually manipulates Fortunato in an extremely clever way in order to take revenge on him.Thus‚ Montresor’s technique consists in hiding his real intentions using the ambiguous and manipulative power of rhetoric‚ by telling
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had been done‚ and Montresor was out for revenge on Fortunato. Not a soul but Montresor knew what the insult may have been‚ but this is what makes the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about a man‚ Montresor‚ who receives a wine that Fortunato‚ the wine expert‚ is looking for. During a carnival‚ Montresor persuades Fortunato to take him to his personal wine cellars‚ located in the catacombs. Fortunato became impaired‚ Montresor takes this opportunity to chain
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A person is defined by their character‚ is it right for another person to define your character for you? After reading “Hard Rock Returns to Prison”‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ and “The Cask of Amontillado.” I was against the use of permanent‚ irreversible‚ intrusive behavior modification through surgery or chemical/medication in cases of the criminally insane. I was a believer of no one should be changed from the way they were created. Then I realized that different acts should have different
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