The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allen Poe Brenden shy 1st hour
The cask of Amontillado-Summary
The Cask of the Amontillado is a story written by Edgar Allen Poe about a powerful tale of getting revenge. The narrator of this tale pledges revenge on fornutato. Montresor (the narrator of the story) intends to seek vengeance on fornutato. The story is set around dusk in some kind of unnamed European city.The main characters of the story are Montresor and Fornutato. When your reading the story you completely become aware that montresors is not a reliable narrator and has tendency's to hold grudges and exaggerates terribly.
Point of View-The cask of Amontillado
The point of view for the cask of the amontillado is 1st person. Poe writes the story from montresors point of view because he is the main character besides fornutato in the short story. This plan is really good in 1st person because if it was 3rd person then the story wouldn't have dramatic irony and this story has to have dramatic irony because it tells you things that you the characters don't know like how fornutato will get revenge. The story was definitely well written in first person POV and effects the short story in a big way.
Comparing the story
The Cask of Amontillado and another short story written by Edgar Allen Poe have the same type of theme and both have the same type of theme to it they both in the short story's are plotting revenge on someone for a dumb reason in tale tell heart its because of the old mans eye and in the cask of the amontillado its because of an insult. Both of the Story's the main character is a bit crazy and knows who he is trying to kill and has a reason. Plus both of the story's main conflict is the main character trying to murder the other main character in the story
Suspense-The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of the Amontillado is a very suspenseful story that has a lot of weird things in it. In the story they're is a lot of suspense in the story like the dramatic irony that creates suspense because we know what the main character is going to do to to fornutato but fornutato doesn't know what is going to happen to him. Plus there is situation irony in the story because he suspense makes us think that something suspenseful will happen and it really does happen and in the ending of the story there is a lot of suspense.