How does the author want the reader to feel while reading "The Cask of Amontillado”? Poe wants to feel the unreliableness of Montresor and wants to create the gothic and spooky thrill of stories like his. What techniques does the author use to help you visualize the place, the people, and the events that are taking place within the story? Imagery was used throughout the story to describe the catacombs so that you can picture how dreary and a terrifying place it must be. As well as when Montresor describes Fortunato especially with “the wine twinkling in his eyes”.
Furthermore, Telemachus’ cunning is outstanding even for a man of his time. This astuteness is especially prevalent in Book 20. He said, “Sit here among these heroes and sip your wine./ I myself will protect you from their insults/ And keep their hands from you. This house/ Is not a public inn, but the palace of Odysseus,/ Who inherited it to pass on to me…” (317).
Fortunado having already been drinking readily agreed to follow who he assumed was a friend but little did he know that he was following a man with a plan. The final thing that shows that Montressor had a plan is how well he orchestrated it. All of the utensils he would need to put Fortunado in a tomb of death were already placed along the way of the catacombs. The wines that Montressor more than willingly accepted from Montressor had been placed, as well as the chains, stones, and mortar. Montressor also willingly displays the foreshadowing item that would be the tool that would forever entrap Fortunado, a trowel.
After the two check into the room, they decide to have a night on the town, while inhaling large amounts of ether. “The main advantage of ether is to make you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue-severance of all connection between the body and brain” (44). As Dr. Gonzo and Duke continue their insane journey through the Circus-Circus, things only get increasingly
Catherine Gomez, Lesson 3.09 The Narrative Essay Final Draft In the dark, cold, insufferably damp vault Montresor was leading Fortunato to the Amontillado; but in truth, Fortunato was about to meet an unfortunate and cruel end. While Fortunato was a respected, feared man, Montresor was not. Montresor was in secret, an angry fellow, and when Fortunato had insulted him, Montresor vowed that he WOULD get his revenge. But Montresor and Fortunato were not all different. Both men had a connoisseurship in wine, and would buy large amounts whenever possible.
In light of his gesture he completely revealed his character and his true self. Cyrano’s gesture in Act 1 shows off many characteristics of himself. First, he is proud because he stood up for what he believed in and didn’t let Montfleury continue on with the play. The only reason he threw away the money is because he had got himself into something and there was a need for pay. Furthermore, he doesn’t let others persuade him that his actions are wrong.
Another approach that Poe showed the readers that the story is foreshadowing Fortunato’s death is the use of the title itself. The title has the word “cask” in it which suggests a casket (Freehafer). This even further suggests that the Amontillado may actually be a barrel ground that the Montresors’ family has used for ages. Finally, the Montresors’ family crest is a form of foreshadowing within this story. Montresor states that his family crest is, “A huge human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel” (Poe 192), which the readers can see that this is foreshadowing in that Fortunato would be the heel that gets bit and that Montresor would be the serpent who will eventually bite him or in reality murders him
I dreaded the first glance at objects around me. It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be NOTHING to see. At length, with a wild desperation at heart, I quickly unclosed my eyes. My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed.”(59-64) This is an example of sensualism because the narrator is just waking up and in a groggy state of mind. An example of sensationalism would be when they take the narrator into a torture chamber because its over the top and in a gothic excessive nature.
Among those insults are ignorance towards others opinions, disrespect to others family and superiority of ones status. The author describes Fortunato as a man with a social acknowledgement whose opinions were highly regarded, but the men himself was an ignorant person. Fortunato considered himself as a connoisseur of wine, a quality that made him proud. Poe writes “How?” said he. “Amontillado?
The public-houses were just closing, and dim men and women were clustering in broken groups round their doors. From some of the bars came the sound of a horrible laughter. In others drunkards brawled and screamed.” The unexplained supernatural is a regular theme in gothic novels and in A Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian’s bargain with the devil and the magical effect of this on his portrait is the novels most important gothic element. In the first chapter when Henry manages to convince Dorian that beauty and youth is everything and that without these two things a man is worth nothing, Dorian’s subconsciously, in the pursuit of absolution says ‘I would give my soul’ . And for the next eighteen years his wish is fulfilled, not a hint of a crease marks his face.