He is admired by the public, “For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name...”. as well as his wife, Lady Macbeth who convinces him to kill in order to achieve his goal of becoming king. When the witches tell Macbeth that he will become king, he becomes obsessed with gaining power. He will stop at nothing, not even the murder of the current king, on his road to becoming king. Like all tragic heroes Macbeth demonstrates he is doomed to make errors in judgment when he allows Lady Macbeth to convince him to commit murder in order to gain the crown.
The need for wine betrays him, and the Amontillado signals his downfall. The Montresor family motto and coat of arms embodies the reason behind Montresor choosing to murder Fortunato.
Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or for what he has been arrested. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish. He is condemned to death and finds himself in a pitch black compartment. At first the prisoner thinks that he is locked in a tomb, but he discovers that he is in a cell. He decides to explore the cell by placing a hem from his robe against a wall so he can count the paces around the room; however, he faints before being able to measure the whole perimeter.
This man's murder reminds me of the narrator's killing in "The Tell-Tale Heart". The narrator believed if he killed the old man, it would "rid myself of the eye forever". By the narrator talking to himself in the beginning of the story before the killing, you would of assumed that he was insane. On the other hand, he showed he was a little sane, because he had guilt after his gruesome murder. The narrator's nervous, jumpy, and jittery actions with the cops illustrated that he did in fact have a little remorse for what he had done.
An author may utilize many different methods in order to convey major themes to readers in his or her work of literature. Aspects such as the point of view, simplicity, and the setting can aid the author in conveying messages to the readers. Edgar Allan Poe uses these aspects to tell a story of murder and the paranoia that accompanies that crime in his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Not only do the methods enhance the story, but they also aid in the reader being able to connect with the tale. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” opens with the main character, who is also the narrator, describing how he had decided to take the life of an old man with a peculiar pale blue eye. The narrator, who is nameless, explains how the man’s pale, blue, vulture-like eye made his blood run cold and haunted him until he eventually came to the decision to kill the man.
Montressor, the stingy and the shady My impression on Montressor is that he is a very stingy and shady person throughout the entire story. He is offended by Fortunato’s insult, and Montressor suddenly has the urge to murder Fortunato for making such insult. Montressor is shady because he used wine to trick Fortunato to go into the wine cellars of the latter’s palazzo, where they wander in the catacombs, which is deep below the ground. Then Montressor used reversed-psychology to lure Fortunato to proceed further down to the catacombs of the palazzo to reach the pipe of Amontillado, which happens to be a rare and valuable wine. Montressor is stingy because he purposely showed Fortunato his family’s coat of arms, “a golden foot crushing a snake whose fangs are embedded in the foot’s heel,” this imply that though the person attacking him and his family may be venomous and dangerous, but they will not get away without being punished severely.
They encounter the satyrs, who are the chorus and their drunken father Silenus, who has been enslaved by a Cyclops. Odysseus offers to trade wine to Silenus in return for food for his hungry crew. Being a servant of Dionysus, Silenus cannot resist obtaining the wine despite the fact that the food is not his to trade. When the Cyclops arrives, Silenus is quick to accuse Odysseus of stealing the food, swearing on all the gods and the satyrs' lives that he is telling the truth. His son, a younger and more modern Satyr, tries to tell the truth to the Cyclops in an attempt to help Odysseus.
Besides, George knew that Lennie would not understand the reasoning behind Curley lynching him, he could have gone crazy and killed the whole ranch staff. George knew that, so he tricked Lennie into his own comfortable death. The fact that Lennie died next to his lifelong friend, imagining an unattainable dream that George and
Is Macbeth Responsible For His Downfall? Who is responsible for the downfall of Macbeth? He is manipulated by the witches, encouraged by his wife, but ultimately he chooses to act. His first conference with the witches, Macbeth’s ambition was planted and his mind was overwhelmed with thoughts of murder and betrayal. It fair to say, in addition, that if his betrayal caused this extensive pain that clouded him after he murders Duncan, Banquo and the Macduff’s that it wasn’t a case of fate and was his own doing.
Throughout the story, Montresor tries to convince the reader that Fortunato is a cruel drunk, and his own plans for murder are just. The tale begins with Montresor saying, "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge…” (157). Montresor is basically plotting his revenge and already trying to convince the reader of the gravity of Fotrunato’s many wrong doings, through a blatant exaggeration. The reader can assume that Montresor’s