Getting To Know A Madman’S Brain
GETTING TO KNOW A MADMAN’S BRAIN
People have always been trying to explore human mentality, to figure out how the brain works. They have been particularly interested in psyche of madmen. Many writers also share that interest and one of them is Edgar Allan Poe, who, in his “The Cask of Amontillado”, presents a character, whose insanity leads to a murder. His name is Montresor. Vowing revenge, because of some insult, which one of his acquaintances, Fortunato, ventured upon, he tells him, that he has bought a cask of what passes to be Amontillado, but, not being sure, whether it is really it, he wants his advice. He leads drunken Fortunato, who does not suspect anything, to his vaults where he fetters him to the wall and then bricks him up in that niche. After fifty years, unpunished and probably not even suspected to be able to do such a thing, he tells this story. Montresor’s insanity is cause, by his inability to control emotions, which results in excessive sensitivity,......
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