Compare and Contrast of the Cask of Amontillado and the...

Compare and Contrast of â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† and â€Å"The Black Cat† Today I’ll be comparing the Narration of â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† and â€Å"The Black Cat† by Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe is the author of many great pieces of literature, using his narrators to explain situations that are going on in their life. The narrators of The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat both lead characters love for man’s inhumanity to man and animals through horrific murders. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor is the narrator. He begins by describing very cryptically how he was wronged, The thousands of injuries of Fortunato he has borne as he best could; but when he ventures upon insult, Montresor vows revenge (Poe 528). As the story†¦show more content†¦All this saneness is achieved through a series of household events. In their consequences, these events terrifies, tortures, and destroys the Narrator (Poe 522). The Narrator is married and has pets. They have birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat (Poe 522). The cats name is Pluto, however in contrast to Montresors friend, Pluto, the cat, is the Narrators friend. In The Black Cat the Narrator is an alcoholic unlike in The Cask of Amontillado the enemy is the alcoholic. After several evenings of heavy intoxication, violence against his wife and the other pets, he finally turns on Pluto, his friend. In a slight comparison of the two stories, Fortunato and the cat become the ‘enemy’ over time. He seizes the cat; when in his fright at the narrators violence, the cat inflicts a slight wound upon the narrators hand with his teeth (Poe 523). This is where the narrator allows the alcohol do the thinking for him. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pen-knife, opens it, grasps the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket (Poe 523). Next he goes to sleep and wakes up drinking again. After the cat heals, he decides to hang Pluto. Why? Because screw cats I guess! He slips a noose about Plutos neck and hangs it to the limb of a tree (Poe 523). He did it because he, like Montresor, feels no pain in torturing his enemy. I’d like to say alcohol hasShow MoreRelatedNathaniel Hawthorne s The Mind1900 Wor ds   |  8 Pageswritings the mystical and the melancholy aspects of America s Puritan thought. In their words, â€Å"they examine the conflict between good and evil, the psychological effects of guilt and sin, and even madness and derangement in the human mind. (Compare and Contrast) However, people can never be 100 percent alike so it is in their approach to these aspects that they differ from each other. The areas in where these to differ focus more on the themes and the point of views within their stories. NathanielRead MoreHow Poets of the Eighteenth Century Handled Love2802 Words   |  12 Pageshour. Frost may be commenting on childhood and how it is, in a way, like a flower – fresh, delicate, innocent, yet ephemeral? Frost uses the word â€Å"subside† to describe the leaves as if the leaves have given in to some form of external pressure. He compares this occurrence in to Eve’s failure to resist temptation at the Garden of Eden. Perhaps Frost inten ds for us to realize that it is an eventual certainty that we will also subside as the leaves do each season by yielding to the temptations which surroundRead MoreANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pageselsewhere, most frequently to character or idea. Understanding a plot on a schematic level becomes even more difficult when dealing with works, usually novels, that have more than one plot. Many novels contain one or more subplots that reinforce by contrast or parallel the main plot. Some novels even contain a double plot, as in Thackeray’s â€Å"Vanity Fair†, where we are asked to follow the careers of both the selfish adventuress Becky Sharp and the innocent, good-hearted Amelia Sedley. As Amelia’s fortunes