Edgar Allen Poe
There are many techniques that writers use to further develop their literature. Through these techniques a writer chooses how he or she wants the story to be understood, how the characters are perceived, how the place and time of the story are important, and when to twist the plot in another direction. When these techniques are mastered a great writer is born. An example of this is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe uses each technique in each of his stories. I will discuss in the following paper how Poe uses irony and symbolism in three of his short stories, "The Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Tell-Tale Heart". The short story "The Black Cat", written by Poe, has a plot which is based on irony. The biggest contributor of this is the love that the narrator has for animals when he is young. The narrator says that he felt most happy as a child when he was feeding and caressing the animals that his parents had given him. This love for animals stayed with him well into his early manhood. This could be seen by the fact that he and his wife owned birds, goldfish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. Ironically this loved turned into hate. Animals now seemed to annoy rather than comfort him. Pluto, who was a black cat a
This is ironic because Fortunato will soon become part of the buried that surround him and Montresor knows that Fortunato's life will end that night. When the police are talking to the narrator, the narrator hears what he believes to be the heart of the old man. After a period of time that they are talking to the young man he begins to hear a ringing. The cat was walled up with the corpse and was making the crying sound that alerted the police. The thing he loves most, wine, helps end his life. Fortunato was also a major part of the symbolism in "The Cask of Amontillado". I feel that the moral disintegration of the narrator's life is symbolized earlier in the story when that cat's eye is poked out. If he kills the old man and gets rid of the eye than he will no longer feel that he is insane. Thus, the cat itself becomes a symbol for evil, fulfilling the statement that the narrator's wife had stated earlier in the story that a black cat is really a witch. Because of his pride Fortunato had to prove that he could critique the wine the best and because of this he fell into Montresor's trap. The outfit was a symbol that Fortunato was a fool. When the police dug the wall open the corpse fell out with the cat lying on it. Because he's drunk on wine he doesn't see the trap Montresor is leading him into. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**.
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