The Cask of Amontillado & Reunion

Introduction

In this paper, we are going to analyze two different stories named as “The Cask of Amontillado and Reunion” The Cask of Amontillado is a gothic fiction whereas reunion is a rite of passage.

Summary of The Cask of Amontillado

The story told in first person by Montresor, begins with the exposition of the events that decided to take revenge. The narrator addresses the reader in the plural, introducing them into the story, maybe there comes the unsettling feeling that leaves us. In developing the story, Montresor is manifested as an individual calculating, cold and meticulous, which is completely devoid of feelings of guilt for their actions. By contrast, decides to exploit the weakness of his opponent for the wines, and structure his revenge around her. While plans for a long time revenge, the opportunity will come during Carnival (the story takes place in Italy where this celebration is very important), there is a street encounter with Fortunato (the victim) is drunk and dressed Jester, which is a guarantee that no one will know who was in his company. Tend his trap, using the pretext of consulting with a competitor of Fortunato, said more wine connoisseur than this. And the network is stretched to catch the naive.

Montresor had anticipated the success of your business, and had given free to the servants, which ensured the absence of possible witnesses. Venture into the cellar of the family, a place to commit a crime, and the humidity contributes to undermining the health of Fortune, which is have the flu. Montresor helps its plans with a bottle of Medoc, on the pretext of helping with your cough, but actually conceals its intentions to fully intoxicate, to facilitate its work. Continue deep into the vast catacombs, to a niche where the chains and Walls without pity the prayers of his friend. During the task, Fortunato begs and cries until he falls silent for a while. Then, perhaps delirious and talks about a joke, and Montresor continues his work, not to talk. Completes its task and leaves. Fifty years have passed since the event when Montresor makes his story.

Genre of The Cask of Amontillado

This story is in the horror genre, although careful readers will note that the story contains a great deal of subtle humor. Poe was one of the developers of the short story as a literary genre. The Cask” is Horror or Gothic - the whole story is about two guys walking through a vast underground graveyard, in the middle of the night, getting drunker and drunker. They are present in the story, typical elements of the Gothic novel of the eighteenth century which was a great admirer Poe himself. The darkness takes over everything in the catacombs as symbol of death, death that approaches to Fortunato, and the death of any other human that might subtract from Montresor, who for his cruelty, could well represent the devil. In short, Poe plunges us back into the complex mazes of the ...