Amontillado Thesis

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“I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat,and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket. Edgar Allen Poe was a writer of scary poems and short stories with characters wanting to solve a problem but going about it the wrong way, so people died, grief stayed, and someone was caught killing. In Poe’s poems and short stories the theme is to not let angry or sad thoughts/feelings sway you to do something foolish, or get to your heart. Poe uses character to bring out the theme of a story. I “The Cask of Amontillado” the character Fortunato is dressed as a jester in a party and is asked by Montresor if he wanted to go down to his vaults so they could taste a wine. “Come let …show more content…

“The cough is a mere nothing.” Montressor is concerned and ask Fortunato if he wanted to go back but Fortunato says the cough is nothing and wants to go on. This proves thesis by Fortunato being ignorant of, and has no other thought towards the condition of his health, or what the cough is. In Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” the character Fortunato brings out the theme because he is tempted by his thought that sway him into doing something foolish, with the outcome of death. Poe uses setting to bring out the theme in “The Black Cat”.The setting lies in a household with a black cat. “But tomorrow I die...My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of household events.” The narrator tells he will die, so I infer he will die over something he did in “a series of mere household events.”The quote shows thesis because the narrator did something foolish and is going to die for

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