The Cask of Amontillado (1846)

Introduction

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story set in a nameless city in an unspecified year Italian (possibly in the 18th century) and concerns with deadly revenge, taken by the narrator on a friend, whom he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, the narrative revolves around a person-Being Buried Alive in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story through the murderer's perspective.

In this essay, the argument of personal morality of Montresor discussed after elaborating the text, with the help of reviewing the three literary articles on The Cask of Amontillado. The three article used here “The Mysterious Vengeance in The Cask of Amontillado” by Sandro D., “Fear and Psychology in The Cask of Amontillado” by Daniel Appel, and “The Cask of Amontillado - Analysis of Montresor” by Ktolman.

The Mysterious Vengeance in The Cask of Amontillado

By Sandro D.

"For where your treasure is, your heart will be also." (Mt 6.21)

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 (White, pp. 550). That is, the content located in a dark basement, the story becomes, in turn, cryptic symbols and phrases with double interpretations.

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.

Poe often uses just a few symbols as a means to go beyond the apparent limits of events with ...