In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, the story is written in the first person through the eyes of Montresor, a man looking for revenge on a man named Fortunato. ... (pg. 263 Poe: Kelly) This is another reason why our main character is "unreliable" Poe always seems to have psychotic main characters and really goes into the human psyche, deep emotions that are kept deep inside and the external person that the world sees. If one reads a lot of Poe we might better understand the mind of the truly insane....

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"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe all show this idea. ... In "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor gets revenge on Fortunato in an inhumane way. ... When the two gentlemen go down to the basement, Montresor " had fettered him to the granite Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it"(Poe 92). ... "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe al...

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Death is certainly a positive thing because it can bring a conclusion to a person who was a threat in the past. For kids, the death could be of a monster like the Bogey Man or Roseanne. Death is not always a bad thing if it is only seen only through the negative perspective. Death is a good thing in...

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What nudges someone so close to the edge, and then allows him or her to make the leap? In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", one character crosses that invisible line. He commits the murder of one who wronged him. Montresor's motivations for the crime are fueled by his incredible intellect...

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Edgar Allen Poe takes the reader through a journey of deceit as the lead character, Montresor, leads Fortunato, a drunken, arrogant man, through a maze of enticements and ultimately to a premature death. ... Regardless of Poe's reasons for scribing this story, it serves as an example of delusion as well as imagination. ...

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Literature often has themes and lessons about life. It's all around us, and whenever we read a story, we often relate to it. Three stories that I've read that relates to life are The Interlopers written by Saki, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. These ...

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