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The Cask Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado
One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado is revenge. Firstly a brief summary of the short story: the story is supposed to happen more than a hundred years ago during Italian Carnival festivities. The main character, a man called Montressor, feels terribly offended, even insulted by a friend named Fortunato, and firmly decides to take this friend's life. In order to achieve his aim, Montressor elaborates a plan which consists basically of two steps: first, to take Fortunato to the catacombs of the Montressors, and second, to arrest Fortunato down there forever. It is Edgar Allan Poe's intense use of symbolism and irony throughout the Cask of Amontillado that establishes the short story as an indeed interesting candidate worthy of thorough analysis. The skillful uses of these devices are utilized by the author to create this horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. The Cask of Amontillado is a horror short story, which......


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