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his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
century, Gothic literature is a type of fiction that combines both horror and romance. Its writing is intended to stimulate the em...
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...
of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...
he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...
stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...
of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...