ipl-logo

Analysis Of The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

974 Words4 Pages

Edgar Allan Poe has become a famous writer and poet with his classics like, The Tell Tale Heart, The Fall of The House of Usher, Cask of Amontillado, and many more. Poe is the one of the best at creating stories of horror and mystery. He has a very intricate writing style where he embeds many hidden aspects of the story in the words to create a greater meaning and make the reader truly think about what they are reading. He uses his words cleverly to add humor and imagery to paint a picture in the reader’s mind to grasp them into the story and make them want to read more and more all while still keeping the dark tone of murder and evil. Poe’s writing style more than likely came from his own personal life. His life started with his dad leaving …show more content…

In the short story, Cask of Amontillado, Montresor plans to kill his friend Fortunato by trapping him in his family catacombs. When Montresor is leading Fortunato down, Fortunato tests to see if Montresor is a Mason. He responds by saying “It is this’ producing from beneath the folds of his roquelaire a trowel. The way Poe embeds a hidden meaning and the fate of Fortunato is very clever. A mason has two different meanings. Fortunato was thinking of a Freemason, a person part of a secret society of the same name. Montresor, while not part of the masons responds with the trowel because a mason as an occupation is a person who lays bricks or stones. This is not only clever irony by the author but it also alludes to the death of the character, …show more content…

In the short story, The Tell-Tale Heart. A man is watching a man in the night until he kills him. When the police come, he tries not to give in but the sound of a heartbeat makes him fall under the pressure and turns himself in. The heartbeat he hears at the end of the story becomes to irritable to bear and turned himself in. He said, “I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!” Poe uses this to have you think of the sanity of this man who has just killed this man. In the beginning of the story. The killer is calm and collected and makes the murder seem normal, but at the end he is going crazy and hearing things. However, the heartbeats are probably just his own heartbeat getting faster and

Show More
Related

  • Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

    960 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the “Cask of Amontillado” Montressor is a very angry and vengeful man. He says that he was insulted by Fortunato, but fails to give a reason as to why or how. He begins to enact his revenge by luring Fortunato in with the rare wine and when his “friend” Fortunato is drunk, he t proceeds to bring him deeper and deeper underground, while telling him to turn around repeatedly. Once he reached a place where no one can hear them, Fortunato walked into what he thought was another corridor, but it would turn out to be his grave! For as soon as Fortunato hit the wall, Montressor chains him against it.

    Read More

  • Comparing Poe And Ray Bradbury

    635 Words  | 3 Pages

    What ways are Poe and Ray Bradbury similar? What ways are they different? In Poe’s and Bradbury’s stories there is foreshadowing, foreshadowing is a warning or a hint that something is going to happen. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe made the killing of the old man recognizable early in the story. Ray Bradbury made the house “dying” clear because the house had no purpose anymore, so eventually it died in a fire.

    Read More

  • Symbolism In Cask Of Amontillado

    997 Words  | 4 Pages

    Fortunato has wronged Montresor, but his ignorance leads him to think Montresor is his friend. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “A Cask of Amontillado” portrays the symbolic meaning of Fortunato’s death through some examples of instances where Poe symbolizes the Montresor motto, the laying of the bricks, and the jingling bells. First and foremost, the

    Read More

  • The Cask Of Amontillado Comparative Essay

    580 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the story “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man named Montresor who is trying to kill another man named Fortunato. In the story Montresor lures Fortunato into his catacombs by the rumor of a cask of Amontillado (wine). In the catacombs Montresor kills fortunato. He kills him by chaining him to a wall in the farthest reaches of the catacombs, he also builds a wall between himself and Fortunato. This causes a slow and painful death for Fortunato.

    Read More

  • A Literary Analysis Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

    560 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Style of Poe Analysis In “The Tell-tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, the demented, arrogant and dark tones reflect the man’s guilt and insanity that eventually leds him to admit to the crime he committed. Poe’s diction heightens the arrogant tones which is seen as the man plans the murder and carries it out in a careful, organized way. He goes “boldly” into the chamber, “cunningly” sticks his head in the doorway and feels “the extent of his own power”. Poe’s use of diction shows how cocky the man actually is.

    Read More

  • Edgar Allan Poe Argumentative Essay

    713 Words  | 3 Pages

    Poe is the following “Oh God! What could I do? I roamed-I raved- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased.”

    Read More

  • An Analysis Of Edgar Allen Poe's Vocabulary

    1590 Words  | 7 Pages

    It has so many different characteristics within it and makes it irresistible to read. The way he uses suspense to confuse and scare the reader increases the strength of his writing. Edgar Allan Poe has a very distinct way of writing because of his drive to scare, confuse, and intrigue the reader. First, Poe uses disturbing topics and rich vocabulary to really scare the reader at times.

    Read More

  • The Cask Of Amontillado Essay

    712 Words  | 3 Pages

    I reechoed – I aided – I surpassed them in volume and in strength.” (Poe 1112-1113) Not only does Montresor bury Fortunato alive, but he mimics his screams as he entombs, taking sheer delight in Fortunato 's terror. Montresor is also an unreliable narrator, which, as defined by our text, is “a fictional character... whose knowledge or judgment about events and other characters is so flawed or limited as to make him or her a misleading guide to the reader.” (Charters 1745)

    Read More

  • Interprettive Essay: The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

    728 Words  | 3 Pages

    The author writes, “The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them.” (Poe, 1843) This text describes that the killer has a mental disorder. Poe also writes, “‘Villains!’ I shrieked, “dissemble no more” I admit the deed! - tear up the planks - here, here!

    Read More

  • What Is The Mood In The Cask Of Amontillado

    1054 Words  | 5 Pages

    The quote shows the author's details create a shocking mood in the readers because he describes a detailed image the helps the reader envision what is going on. This action takes the audience by surprise because they know Montresor is getting revenge, but they aren’t told what it will be so they are as clueless as Fortunato. Montresor threw a torch in the niche where he tied Fortunato up and he finished closing up the wall, killing a man who considered him a friend. “I thrust a torch to the remaining aperture and let it fall within… I force the last stone into position; I plastered it up.” (pg7)

    Read More

  • The Cask Of Amontillado Short Story Analysis

    710 Words  | 3 Pages

            In "The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor was the one that narrated the story. During his narration, it is known that he has a grudge against Fortunato and he never explained on why he had that grudge or what even caused it. Montresor eventually ends up chaining Fortunato to a wall and left him there to die. He also had built a newer wall to seal Fortunato in.

    Read More

  • Literary Elements In Edgar Allan Poe

    1208 Words  | 5 Pages

    In many stories and poems; such as the Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The House of Usher, and so many more timeless works, Edgar Allan Poe has been captivating his audiences with spine tingling thrillers through the words and style of his own twisted ways. The only way to describe where Poe’s writing belongs in history, would be classified as gothic genre. From the start of the 1800’s to present day and the future of literature, through irony, repetition, imagery, and symbolism Poe has been bewitching readers with his gore and insane writings. Poe’s life inspired so many of his poems, from focusing on taboo topics, such as death, revenge, love and loss. Poe’s life was painful and heartbreaking that

    Read More

  • Point Of View In Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado

    1004 Words  | 5 Pages

    Poe’s focus on the thoughts and emotions surrounding the protagonist, while providing few physical details of the events, gives the reader a psychological thrill as they are drawn into the mind of a

    Read More

  • Edgar Allan Poe's Tales Of The Criminal Insanity Analysis

    1395 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843 is about a man who claims he is not insane but only nervous. In turn, he tells a story to defend his sanity, in which he confesses to have killed an old man. He claims that his ambition was neither passion nor greed for money, but actually uneasiness of the old man’s pale blue eyes. He continues to insist that he isn’t mad because of his calm and collected actions. Even though he is a murderer, he claims that his composed actions aren’t ones of a psychopath.

    Read More

  • Conflict In The Cask Of Amontillado

    924 Words  | 4 Pages

    In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” and Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” the two characters are consistently belittled by the antagonist in the stories. In “Sweat” Delia is an average housewife, but unfortunately she is in an abusive relationship with her husband named Sykes, who has a tendency to degrade Delia. Throughout the story, Sykes treats Delia horribly and towards the end of the story, Delia finally realizes that she has had enough of her abusive husband because he makes her feel as if she is not worth anything. Due to Sykes’ tendency to degrade her, Delia is considered to be a sympathetic character. The same kind of conflict affects the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado.”

    Read More

More about Analysis Of The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

Open Document