Short Story Analysis Of: The Cask Of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe

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chains Fortunato up and starts to wall him in “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious… A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite. In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it… With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche” (Jerome B et al. 73). The falling action begins as the Montresor finished walling up Fortunato “I forced the last stone into its position” (Jerome B et al. 74). After walling up Fortunato the reader is led to the conclusion in which Montresor wishes that Fortunato rest in peace. Then leaves implying that this story had been eating at him for half a century “Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat” (Jerome B et al. 74)!

Romanticism is defined as neo classicism or the rejection of intellect in which emotions must be use to express thoughts or ideas. These works like “The Cask of Amontillado” are very dramatic pieces that are set in erotic and in an awkward places. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a murder based on emotions hence defining the story as romantic “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Jerome B et al. 70). Furthermore, the setting is a pre-Lenten carnival in an Italian city, sixth thr...