Compare And Contrast The Cask Of Amontillado By Sandra Cisneros

“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within” Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros is saying that with revenge only comes violence; it won’t free people from anything. Only acceptance and moving on will unshackle someone from what revenge would only lock them into. Simply put, revenge creates a prison in one’s own mind seeking out that revenge will not lead to freedom. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Kurt Wimmer’s Law Abiding Citizen both storylines reflect on this idea that when a person seeks revenge he or she is really building a prison of guilt. Similarities are best found between the setting and the plot whereas the characters differ throughout each story. The settings from both stories share the idea that revenge creates a prison in a person’s mind. Not only is the prison from Law Abiding

Characters from each story are wronged and seek revenge but come to find out that revenge is not always the right answer. For example, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor says at the end of the story, “Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.” (Poe 214) This simply expresses that he sought out his revenge but eventually was unable to keep it a secret hence why he is sharing this story out of guilt fifty years later. This idea is also expressed in Law Abiding Citizen when Clyde states, “I’m just getting started. I’m gonna pull the whole thing down. I gonna bring the whole diseased corrupt temple down on your heads. It’s gonna be Biblical.” At this point in the movie, Clyde is perceived to be driven crazy with the idea of revenge. This is a perfect example of the idea that people have the ability to develop a mental prison while seeking revenge. However, the characters in both stories reflect differences in their idea of