The Cask Of Amontillado Literary Analysis

Roughly 56,600,000 people die every year, making it no surprise that authors everywhere create stories based around the sport of killing. In the horrific and sadistic stories of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” the authors use literary elements to illistrate nefarious murderers . No matter the motives of these murders, demented people always commit them. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the guile Montresor seeks vengeance on Fortunato, an imprudent man who has an addiction to alcohol by using Fortunato’s desire of Amontillado against him to lure him to his death. In Connell’s amazing short prose “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford, a skillful hunter, falls off a yacht into the Amazon. There he meets the hunting fanatic General Zaroff, who eventually implies that the only creatures that give him a thrill to hunt are humans. Rainsford thought he was being treated well and that him and Zaroff were to hunt other humans together; however, he soon finds out that he is the one who will be hunted. Authors Poe and Connell use tone, metaphores and suspense to illuminate a foreboding atmosphere in their tales “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” ultimately creeping readers out
An example of this is just as Montresor and Fortunato are entering the catacombs and "He (Fortunato) turned towards me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication.(59)" The way that this metaphor compares the eyes of Fortunato to "two filmy orbs." gives readers an astounding visual in their head as they read. Edgar Allan Poe in his melancholic short prose "The Cask of Amontillado" utlizes the element metaphor to add to his already sophistacated main