Use Of Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado

Although Mahatma Gondie believes that an eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind Montresor, in Edger Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” clearly disagrees. In contrast Montresor lures his supposed friend Fortunato to a gruesome death deep in the catacombs. Poe creates a horrific effect through the use of three literacy techniques. To begin Poe employs irony in order to develop a frightening atmosphere. For example at the carnival Montresor acknowledges that “there are no attendance at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time. I had told that I should not return until morning and, had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house,”. Montresor knows his servants very well and by giving them certain demands and knowing that’s they would do the exact opposite. This was a thought out plan on Montresor’s part. In addition deep in the catacombs when Montresor offers

As Fortunato sees the wine “it sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled,”. By the way he is gleaming into the wine the sparkles just makes it taste and look like perfection. The description is very well executed that maybe even the smell of the wine is brought about. Walking along “had passed through long walls of piled skeletons with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost of the catacombs,”. All the different elements to the catacombs gives off a creepy and place to be roaming around. Having all of the Montresor family down there with their spirts still wondering makes a lonely area. Looking across the catacombs Fortunato spots “the niter hangs like moss,”. The catacombs are appeared to be uncomfortable and spooky. It is almost like feeling, seeing, and smelling the niter which is frightful. By enhancing the functions of touch, taste, sight, and smell through the use of descriptive writing, Poe obtains a dreadful effect to his short