The Cask of Amontillado
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Edgar Allan Poe
The story is based on the revenge of an
insult. The narrator Montresor tells the story of his brutal revenge with his
friend Fortunato. He was his friend but when he started insulting Monstresor he
vowed revenge. As he said in the beginning of the story,
“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne; but
when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge”
We can interpret the story with the help
of two themes, Insult and revenge and self ego. The narrator has planned everything
and then murdered Fortunato so it is a coldblooded murder. They were friends
but their emotions were shallow. There was a violence but with planning and
coldblooded. As narrator has told the victim,
“Come, you are rich, respect, admired, beloved; you are
happy as once I was”
Poe’s characters are psychologically
ill sometimes. In this story we can consider the narrator as psychopath. There are
many ways to take revenge or solve the problem. Murder is not the ultimate solution
of any problem. The sense of guilt can be considered as the major element of
the story as after fifty years he confesses his crime. The Gothic elements can be felt by the
setting of the story, the images of castle and basement with darkness.
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