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Publication History and Reception:“The Cask of Amontillado” was originally published inGodey’s Lady’s Book, a widely read magazine, in November 1846. “The Cask of Amontillado” is Poe’s last short story and considered one of his best. Inspiration:The short story was partially inspired by...
In the short story the cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe creates the main characters by the dialogue between them. The dialogue shows how dark and evil the protagonist is. The writer also mirrors the inner change of the main characters by using the conversation between them and some ...
14、 his theory on how to construct a tale: 1. A story should try to achieve a single effect. 2. All incidents and events of a short story should help the author to establish this effect. 3. The very first sentence of the story should bring out this effect. 4. The whole composition...
1、The barrelof Amontillado (1846) by Edgar Allan PoeBackground “The barrel of Amontillado” in 1846. It was his last, and some say greatest, short story. Its a tale of revenge, murder, torture, and addiction set in a vast underground Italian catacomb (underground cemetery). Its also a...
TheBlackCatEdgarAllanPoe1EdgarAllanPoe(1809-1849)EdgarAllanPoewasangreatAmericanpoet,editorandliterarycritic.Bestknownforhistalesofmysteryandthemacabre.PoewasoneoftheearliestAmericanstorywriterandisconsideredtheinventorofthedetective-fictiongenre.Poeandhisworksinfluencedliteratureallovertheworld.2Personallife(1)His...
Although most literary comparisons are futile because of the disparateness of the things compared, the present one seems legitimate in the cases of Poe and Hawthorne, superficially so alike in their short-story work. IV In the romances in which he is, by common consent, our greatest practitione...
Likely influenced by Poe's tales, Doyle also crafted stories of the "locked room" mystery style. Doyle's tale The New Catacomb (1898), parallels Poe's The Cask of Amontillado (1846), where one man is effectively "buried alive" on purpose by his trusted acquaintance after following the ...
Many story suggestions will stand as presented, others will evolve as part of the bigger picture, still others will be supplanted by tales only my characters can reveal. I bring to Boston, the same talents I showed in my collaboration with James A. Michener on his South African novel: "U...
sbehaviorsandcontentsofhisnarrationwecanknowheissoeagertotellthesestories.First,when"I"askedhimtotell"me"somethingaboutW.Smiley,he“backedmeintoacornerandblockadedmewithhischair,andthensatdownandreeledoffthenarrative”.Andduringtheprocessoftellinghisstories,heneverpaidanyattentiontoothers'responsetohisstoryand...