In The Cask of Amontillado‚ Montresor and Fortunato explore the cramped‚ death filled catacombs in search for Amontillado‚ creating a claustrophobic mood. In order to accomplish the unity of effect‚ Poe incorporates confined spaces and lack of oxygen‚ which ties into claustrophobia‚ one of the world’s biggest fears. Montresor states‚ “we passed through a range of low arches‚ descended‚ passed on‚ and descending again‚ arrived
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group of healthy individuals and a group of serial killers were given the task of finding which lever out of four turned on a green light. One of the levers gave the subject an electric shock. Though both groups made the same number of mistakes the sociopaths took much longer in learning to stay away from the lever with the electric shock. This higher need for stimulation leads these individuals to seek dangerous situations. In fact most serial killers have a desire to become cops‚ the intensity of
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Edgar Allen-Poe (1809 – 1849) is widely acclaimed as one of the first and greatest gothic writers. His output mostly consisted of short stories and poems for various American magazines in the 1840s. Surprisingly‚ despite his fame and recognition within his own lifetime‚ he lived a life of squalor and poverty. Although best known for his gothic stories‚ he also wrote numerous detective and adventure stories. An alcoholic and an opium user‚ his stories often display a surreal‚ dark and dreamlike style
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used are symbol and mood. Symbol makes this quote true in this story. This is true because montresor’s coat of arms which is the snake biting the foot that is crushing it. This represents montresor getting revenge on fortunato for his supposed insult. When they both walked through the catacombs ‚ montresor describes his coat of arms in a descriptive way. The other literary device that is used in this short story is‚ mood. The mood is very important in the story. It has a lot of terror and fear
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character Montresor and the desire he has to get revenge on his ‘friend’ Fortunato. The plot similarly reflected Poe’s bitterness toward his enemy Thomas Dunn English‚ who indirectly wrote a satire about him. The story begins with Montresor luring Fortunato into his catacombs to drink some wine and ends with Montresor exacting his revenge by burying Fortunato alive. Readers can infer while reading Poe’s short story literature that he imagined Fortunato as English and himself as Montresor; it was also
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The movie that I‚ choose to watch and was related to Psychology was “Girl‚ Interrupted” directed by. James Mangold. The movie is an ardent film that captures the lives of a group of women in a mental institution. To be noted‚ this was a book before it became a movie. It was a book based off of the main character and author‚ Susanna Kaysen‚ who details her life after checking herself into an institution after attempting suicide. The movie is about Suzanna and the relationships she makes while living
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[he] could teach” (304). Clegg is now interested in collecting and comparing woman‚ the same way he used to collect butterflies. Clegg deceives himself and he is not willing to educate himself in order to change this results in him devolving into a sociopath. Some of Clegg’s interests have changed but none of his view on sex and class have changed. He does become an authentic character instead he turns into a
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Preventing Murderous Tendencies in Children Harvard clinical psychologist Martha Stout wrote in her book‚ The Sociopath Next Door‚ that “a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people – one in twenty-five – has an often undetected mental disorder… one in twenty-five everyday Americans‚ therefore‚ is secretly a sociopath” (12). Stout‚ along with other psychologists‚ argues that the development of sociopathy is due half to genetics and half to non-genetic influences. We blame serial killers and murderers
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09/13/12 Period 6 An Easy Target “Nobody attacks me without punishment.” In Edgar Allen Poe’s chilling story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado‚” this was Montresor‚ the protagonist’s‚ family motto. After being rudely insulted by a wine connoisseur‚ by the name of Fortunato‚ this motto came into play. On the night of an event called Carnival Night‚ in Italy‚ Fortunato‚ the antagonist‚ became a target of revenge
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Tristin Gimenez Enc. 1102 Prof. Jacobs 12 April 2013 The Cask of Amontillado Since the beginning of time‚ deceit has brought the fall of man. Deceit has always been a primary trait of evil. In biblical times‚ Cain and Abel (The first children ever born) are a perfect example of the situation in “The Cask of Amontillado”. Cain (the older brother) was jealous of his younger brother Abel‚ because he believed he was God’s favorite. He took Abel to a cliff and tricked him and bashed his head
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