The Cask Of Amontillado Montresor's Downfall
The Cask of Amontillado
Sometimes, it is not the people that change, but the mask that falls off. Montresor seeks revenge against Fortunato. Montresor has committed a thousand injuries against Fortunato, but no further details are given. Even though Montresor thinks Fortunato and him are good friends, Fortunato is just hiding behind a mask. He has no clue of the deadly plans that Fortunato is planning. Montresor knows that his enemy’s fatal weakness is that he drinks to much, and uses this to cause his downfall, betraying him.
The Lady or The Tiger
Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours glow any brighter. By killing her husband, the princess does not improve herself. Sure, here one and only lover will not get married to her enemy, …show more content…
You can read “The Necklace” as a story about greed, but this is also about pride. Mathilde Loisel is a very proud woman. She feels far above the humble circumstances and she is forced to live with her husband by her common birth. Her current situation disgusts her. She is also vain too, completely caught up in her own beauty. It is pride that prevents Mathilde from admitting they've lost an expensive necklace. After the loss of the necklace makes Mathilde poor, and her beauty fades, she may learn a pride of a different sort: pride in her own work and …show more content…
The Sniper has all sorts of divisions, both figurative and literal. The story happens just before dawn, division between night and day. Until the end, the action takes place on the rooftops of Dublin, where a Republican sniper and an enemy sniper face each other on roofs across the street from one another, a literal division. At the end of the story, when the Republican sniper realizes that the man he just killed was also his brother, the reader understands the full cost of the divisions that have ripped apart Ireland, where even brother might fight brother for political
Sometimes, it is not the people that change, but the mask that falls off. Montresor seeks revenge against Fortunato. Montresor has committed a thousand injuries against Fortunato, but no further details are given. Even though Montresor thinks Fortunato and him are good friends, Fortunato is just hiding behind a mask. He has no clue of the deadly plans that Fortunato is planning. Montresor knows that his enemy’s fatal weakness is that he drinks to much, and uses this to cause his downfall, betraying him.
The Lady or The Tiger
Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours glow any brighter. By killing her husband, the princess does not improve herself. Sure, here one and only lover will not get married to her enemy, …show more content…
You can read “The Necklace” as a story about greed, but this is also about pride. Mathilde Loisel is a very proud woman. She feels far above the humble circumstances and she is forced to live with her husband by her common birth. Her current situation disgusts her. She is also vain too, completely caught up in her own beauty. It is pride that prevents Mathilde from admitting they've lost an expensive necklace. After the loss of the necklace makes Mathilde poor, and her beauty fades, she may learn a pride of a different sort: pride in her own work and …show more content…
The Sniper has all sorts of divisions, both figurative and literal. The story happens just before dawn, division between night and day. Until the end, the action takes place on the rooftops of Dublin, where a Republican sniper and an enemy sniper face each other on roofs across the street from one another, a literal division. At the end of the story, when the Republican sniper realizes that the man he just killed was also his brother, the reader understands the full cost of the divisions that have ripped apart Ireland, where even brother might fight brother for political