Edgar Allen Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado”

Introduction

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short narrative, typed by Edgar Allan Poe, first issued in the November 1846 subject of Godey's Lady's Book. The narrative set in a nameless habitation in an unspecified year Italian (possibly in the 18th century) and worries with life menacing revenge, taken by the narrator on a acquaintance, who he allegations has affronted him. Like numerous of Poe's narratives, the narrative spins throughout a person-Being Buried Alive in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe passes on the narrative through the murderer's perspective.

Discussion

The Gothic short story called "The Cask of Amontillado" (The Cask of Amontillado, 1846) is a perfect example of art posca because there are all the elements associated with the grotesque and artistic principle of arabesque. Grotesque element will trace the derivation of the cave which dovetails the ambience of the story set in a cold cellar, used as well as a catacomb from the damp walls; we read a meaning related to the icy darkness of the abyss with its deformed and monstrous depth. So, the short story expresses a vein at the same time enigmatic and arcane and ritualistic to induce the reader to careful and painstaking exegesis in order, to fully understand the semantic importance within a hard to weave the symbolic. Indeed, it is exactly in that context, the grotesque and arabesque known as the author has developed a style designed to penetrate the mysterious atmosphere to the plot. That is, the content located in a dark basement, the story becomes, in turn, cryptic symbols and phrases with double interpretations (Cervo, pp. 155).

It takes a deep understanding of the human psyche to weave a tale of fight in such a way that the collective fears of all people captured upon the pages. Edgar Allen Poe is widely recognized as a master of the grotesque, and rightly so, his short story, The Cask of Amontillado, channels a phobia that is as common as it is alarming. He deftly incorporates a historical climate and linguistic trickery around this foundation of fear, creating one of literature's admirable and symbolic works of fiction.

The narrative describes a vendetta by the outrage caused premeditated and executed with clear and cold cruelty of the demon in the underground palace of abyssal Montresor, and human remains littered with barrels of bones piled up. The most brilliant work is just as Poe symbolically cast environment and psyche in a horrible story full of suspense and irony. The descent into the dark labyrinth of the underground is a descent into the underworld where the soul emerges all the horror of mental delirium and death. The torch in your hand by the characters of "The Cask of Amontillado" that not only illuminates a dark place but it seems almost want to express through a red light and reveal the drama of events. Montresor is calmly one of the lot of circuitous characters in any abbreviate adventure ...