The Cask of Amontillado vs the Lottery

Title Authors use many different tools to portray and give some(prenominal) fictional world inside the readers mind such as plot, shoot down of view, characterization, symbolism, etc... The Cask of Amontillado and The Lottery are two in truth melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson two use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and liquid body substance of their stories. Edgar Allen Poe is known for using many different artistic elements to create eerie, spooky stories. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses first person point of view to let the reader know how proud the narrator, Montresor, is with his gone impunitistic murders. I must not only punish merely punish with impunity (pg.236). The use of setting and imagery makes the mood minacious and gloomy. The story starts out with Montresor running into Fortunato, his enemy who has irreparably insulted him, at a carnival. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed punish (pg. 236). Carnivals jell on performances, just as Montresor puts on a record for Fortunato by portraying that they are friends when, in reality, Montresor is plotting out his revenge for him.

The setting then moves to the catacombs of the Montresors, where he lures Fortunato with the hope of farmting a flagon of Amontillado. Montresor also puts on a show by endlessly trying to get Fortunato to turn around, saying he can go get Luchesi, Fortunatos competition in the wine-colored business, and by mentioning repeatedly his concern for Fortunatos health. Come, I said, we will go back; your health is precious….Besides, there is Luchesi- (pg. 238) He makes the reader picture the catacomb as dark, never ending, and deathly by saying, The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre (pg. 237). Poe creates this nightmare of the inward recess of the catacombs by describing the bones and intermingled puncheons (pg. 238). Poe does such a... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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