The Cask of Amontillado The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ 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. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when ...
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe – Short Storiy
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That was a difficult and different story.
Full of irony and symbols. Also it had strange leading characters’ name. Moreover, the theme of story was vengeance and jealousy.
As mentioned by you, the plot and theme of The Cask of Amontillado are quite esoteric and hard to follow, but these qualities are characteristic of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems. We’ll do our best to unravel the mysteries of this terrifying short story in our class.
The story was really different from the others and I think you really used your talent and I was thinking that i was watching a film and it was so awesome“Then
you are not of the brotherhood.”
“How?”
“You are not of the masons.”
“Yes, yes,” I said; “yes, yes.”
“You? Impossible! A mason?”
“A mason,” I replied.
“A sign,” he said, “a sign
Specialy this parts in story was really great.
Thank you, Soroosh, for your comment.
As you correctly mentioned, this short story is really different from almost all of the other stories we’ve read so far. We will discuss the details in the class.