`` The Cask Of Amontillado `` By Edgar Allan Poe - 1848 Words

Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two American Literature short story writers. Poe’s short stories focused on the gothic and mystery genre while Nathaniel Hawthorne focused his work on the dark romanticism genre. Both of their works, explored the conflicts between good versus evil, madness in the human mind and the psychological effects of guilt and sin on a human being. But the way that these two writers create these effects for the readers is their different approaches in the way they choose to tell their stories. Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are in the first person point of view where the narrator is the main character while Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories are in the third person point of view where the narrator tells the†¦show more content†¦This allows the narrator to talk to the audience as if they trust and already know the reader. This type of narration style allows Poe’s stories to create the madness in the human mind where the narrator is terrorized by his own realizations and the horrors of what human beings are capable of. For example, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. The short story â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado†, is being narrated by the killer Montresor. As the story opens, the narrator talks to the reader as if he already knows him/her by saying, â€Å"You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.† (Poe 289). The reader will now able to look in Montresor state of mind throughout the story and see his thoughts and intentions. Montresor talks about his friend Fortunato and how we wants revenge by saying, â€Å"I must not only punish, but punish with impunity†¦.A wrong is undressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.† (Poe 289). By Montresor saying this the reader can see his intentions on what he wants done with Fortunato for doing him wrong. The reader oversees Montresor’s plan to ask Fortunato to have a drink of wine with him down in his families’ tombs. While they are down in the tombs, the narrator describes the start of the killing, â€Å"In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock†¦.. A moment more and I had fettered him to the