Jacob Wargotz Mrs. Newell Honors English 11 4/15/2014 Edgar Allan Poe: He Who Needed a Punching Bag The writer and poet‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ was not as creepy as his stories portray him to be. He was just full of teenage angst and anger‚ even in his older years. It would be likely that if he were alive today‚ he would have weekly sessions with a psychologist‚ but he did not live in this era. However his stories did act as an emotional outlet in which many of his stories can be attributed to some emotionally
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is about a man going to great lengths to plot a murder. In the beginning of the story the main character‚ Montresor‚ is saying that Fortunato had insulted him and he feels the need to take revenge because of it. He then constructs a plan while the staff and Fortunato was out at the festival. Montresor then tricks Fortunato to go into the cellar and plays along as the friend until he buries Fortunato alive behind a brick wall. Fortunato makes himself an easy
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Of Montresor’s noble family’s honor‚ pride‚ and tradition of perfect revenge and Montresor’s fixation of revenge that led to a downward spiral into insanity‚ neither is greater than the other. To truly find out one would have to ask Edgar Allan Poe himself. Even if one could ask Poe‚ Professor Amper would say‚ “In regard to Poe in particular‚ our understanding has come a long way. Research on Poe tells us that there is a great deal more to Poe than first meets the eye. It certainly provides a picture
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Cask of Amontillado What actions and characteristics of Montresor make him an effective villain one might ask? " I must not only punish but punish with impunity" (Poe‚ 1199). Montresor desires to punish Fortunato for an unknown crime against him. Montresor took his revenge on fellow nobleman Fortunato during a night of Carnival while he was drunk‚ dazed‚ and wearing a jester’s outfit. It would seem that it would be pretty hard to murder a man during a festive occasion. However with the proper
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makes us forget about those around us and focus exclusively on ourselves. It causes a disconnection between us and the rest of the world. This is why pride is often considered to be a weakness that can have unfortunate consequences. In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe‚ pride is what caused Fortunato to continue deeper and deeper into the catacombs and to his ultimate doom. Pride is what caused the men in A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell to overlook major evidence that they could have
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In everyday life‚ we see many examples of the flaws of humans and narrators. For example‚ CNN and Fox News are both news channels who usually have the same stories that they report on. CNN could report on the story from a more Liberal standpoint but Fox News could report on the same story but from a more Conservative standpoint. Whose story would you trust? That is the main flaw about our society and about people in general‚ is that we lie or re-write a story to fit what we believe or what we want
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had later on moved in with his aunt Maria Clemm and married his cousin‚ Virginia Clemm who was not even fourteen (The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe). The horrid story "The Cask of Amontillado" written by Poe is a complex piece of literature that combines death‚ revenge‚ insanity‚ and humiliation all together. "The Cask of Amontillado" consists of a
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Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style The short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class‚ I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe ’s writing style‚ I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said‚ "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. " ( 7) For me‚ this is done
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his dramatic and eerie writing style‚ whose stories are sure to cause a chill to run down your spine while reading one of his short stories or poems. Some of Edgar Allan Poe’s Writings such as “The Masque of the Red death”‚ “The Raven”‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher ” ‚ to name a few of his works‚ along with a host of other poems and short stories‚ all seem to have a common theme‚ death. Edgar Allan Poe became focused on death after enduring a miserable childhood‚ not
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