"The Cask of Amontillado" and Irony

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The paper shows how Poe effectively uses irony, foreshadowing and imagery in "The Cask of Amontillado" to tell a story of a cold-blooded, but yet craftily conducted murder. The paper highlights how we see that revenge only causes grief for anyone involved in it.

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The story opens with the narrator, Montresor, telling his idea of an ideal revenge: "I must not only punish, but punish with impunity" He indicates that the cause of an unclearly stated, "thousand injuries" gives him the "utterance to a threat". He introduces the viewers to the redresser - Fortunato, "a man to be respected and even feared" by others, but with a weak point - his connoisseurship in wine - in this case, the Amontillado. Montresor uses the Amontillado as bait to attract Fortunato into the lower depths of his vault, where he buries him alive into the walls, never to be found for half of a century."

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