The Cask Of Amontillado, By Edgar Allan Poe And A Rose For...

â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† by Edgar Allan Poe and â€Å"A Rose for Emily† by William Faulkner can be brought together under one common of horror. This is due to the dark nature that is described in both these short stories. They can be compared and contrasted by their use of revenge, betrayal, irony, and societies’ view on how we treat each other as people. â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† and â€Å"A Rose for Emily† are compatible stories that are easy to compare and contrast each other, and with that the stories show the theme of horror in their own separate ways. In â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado†, Montresor wants to get revenge on Fortunato for causing him so much insults and â€Å"injuries†, although he never tells us what Fortunato did to him. Montresor plots his revenge ahead of time although it seems that he is unsure of whether or not he is going to go through with due to him giving Fortunato the option to turn around an d go back before they get to the cask of Amontillado (Sheets, 297). Montresor even gives Fortunato reasons to doubt his motives for bringing him down into the catacombs (Sheets, 297). Once they got to the crypt, Fortunato ran in to get the Amontillado and Montresor chained him to the floor. Montresor then barricaded Fortunato in the crypt by building a brick wall, thus burying him alive. This plays at the theme of horror and revenge in the story. Being buried alive is the worst nightmare of some people and the stuff that horror movies are made of. Playing into theShow MoreRelatedComparison and Contrast: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe929 Words   |  4 PagesWilliam Faulkner and Edgar Allan Poe employ it to achieve distinctly Gothic effects. â€Å"A Rose for Emily† and â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† are very different stories set in very different worlds, and the tone of the narration in each is equally diff erent. Nonetheless, the stories both offer strong symbolism, and they each rely on how the short story amplifies the Gothic, or dark, by virtue of brief presentation. Poes â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† and Faulkners â€Å"A Rose for Emily† both employ a narratorRead MoreMurder in the Novels, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner733 Words   |  3 Pages The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poes and William Faulkners A Rose for Emily are compelling murder stories, full of dynamic characters, vivid detail, and compelling points of view. These two stories encompass the elements of plot, character, setting and point of view among others. Although the elements of the central theme of murder are different, these stories share other elements that make these stories unique. In the short story â€Å"The cask of Amontillado† by Edgar Allan Poe, the basicRead MoreMurder Has Always Been A Fascinating Element In Fiction1102 Words   |  5 Pagesmurder stories, The Cask of Amontillado and A Rose for Emily drive the plots of the stories. Montresor and Miss Emily, the murderers in each story, engage the readers, allowing them to have a different perspective on their actions and similar motives of murder. A close examination of the way Montresor, the narrator of The Cask of Amontillado, and Miss Emily, the protagonist of A Rose for Emily, commit the action of murder towards their victims demonstrates how authors Edgar Allan Poe and William FaulknerRead MoreA Rose for Emily and a Cask of Amontillado1131 Words   |  5 Pages2 In the short story â€Å"A Rose for Emily,† by William Faulkner (79-84), Emily Grierson has no concept of time. She is living in the past and refuses to accept the death of her father. She lives in an isolated fantasy where she convinces herself that her father is still alive. Emily has no intentions of accepting reality. She refuses to acknowledge the death of her father and also the death of her lover, Homer. Her character could be perceived as psychotic because she has lost contact with realityRead MoreANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesthe middle. In still other cases, the chronology of plot may shift backward and forward in time, as for example in William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, where the author deliberately sets aside the chronological ordering of events and their cause/effect relationship in order to establish an atmosphere of unreality, build suspense and mystery, and underscore Emily Grierson’s own attempt to deny the passage of time itself. Perhaps the most frequently and conventionally used device of interrupting