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Making It Right Good will always triumph over evil. Even the smallest light will shine in the darkness. Who is to say what is good and what is evil? Is the light and the darkness anything more than personal perspective? "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar allen Poe, leaves questions like these in the minds of most of it's readers. The story follows Montresor, a narrator hell bent on getting revenge on the man that has wronged him, Fortunato. At the brink of revenge, a small hesitation in Montressor strikes up and underlying sense of guilt, eventhough he believes he is doing the right thing. A similar moral connundrum can be seen in "The Tell-Tale Heart" also written by Edgar Allen Poe. The unnamed narrator has the burning urge to kill a man for no other reason than the fact that the man's eye is glossed over. Like in Poes's other story, the narrator is sure what he has done is the right thing but, the paronoia of the still beating hart drives the narrator mad with guilt. The two stories are full of Poe's attempts to leave lasting effects on his readers. The similarities and differences of the narrators are strong eveidence. It is hard to figure out who is crazeier, the paroniod schizophrenic or the revenge seeking phsycho. Either way, both narroators are extremely unreliable. When Montressor says things like "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could"(Poe 190), he is attempting to manipulate the readers view of the antagonist to a negative perspective. Manipulative speaking, and adressing the reader can be taken as Montressor not only trying to convince the reader that what he is palnning is justified but, an attempt to reassure himself that he is not in the wrong. Simlilarly, the unnamed narrator also uses a realtionship with the reader to give his actions merit. He uses phrases such as "Now this is the point. You fancy me mad"(Poe
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