The Cask Of The Amontillado And Night Of The Hunter
Montresor and Harry Powell are both two different people in different stories but have something in common which is greed and manipulation.Montresor was a main character in the short story “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and he wanted revenge so he went in the catacombs with his friend Fortunato to kill him.While in the movie The Night Of The Hunter (1955) directed by Charles Laughton the character Harry Powell gets out of jail and married Willa Harper to find $10,000 hidden somewhere inside there house.Later Harry Powell kills his wife in order to search for the $10,000.Both “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and Night Of The Hunter show a very suspenseful and dark mood and both have a theme that can relate to each other. “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and Night Of The Hunter explore the theme which is be careful who you trust.For instance in “The Cask Of The Amontillado” Fortunato trusted Montresor about the amontillado.So they went to the catacombs to get the amontillado but later Fortunato realizes that there was no amontillado so
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From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He was too much astounded to resist. Withdrawing the key I stepped back from the recess.”Line (155-160)As in Night Of The Hunter everybody in the town trusted a man named Harry Powell and turns out that he was actually a killer and they figure this out when the kid John told the judge that he killed his mother.Unlike “The Cask Of The Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe uses literary techniques to reveal the theme.examples from the text are “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.”(Line 1-3).As for Night Of The Hunter Charles Laughton uses framing,camera view,lighting,and literary
From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He was too much astounded to resist. Withdrawing the key I stepped back from the recess.”Line (155-160)As in Night Of The Hunter everybody in the town trusted a man named Harry Powell and turns out that he was actually a killer and they figure this out when the kid John told the judge that he killed his mother.Unlike “The Cask Of The Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe uses literary techniques to reveal the theme.examples from the text are “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.”(Line 1-3).As for Night Of The Hunter Charles Laughton uses framing,camera view,lighting,and literary