A Rose for Emily and Cask of Amontillado
The short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, can be compared and contrasted to the short story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner. In both of these stories the main characters get away with a planned murder. Emily, in A Rose for Emily, murders her companion, Homer Barron. She believes that as long as he is dead he can be forever hers. She keeps him in her bed along side of her, despite the rotting body she still keeps his death to herself. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor feels that his friend Fortunado, has insulted him, and so he seeks revenge against him. He leads Fortunado into the catacombs and leaves him there in chains behind a wall to die. The difference in these two murderers is that Emily killed to keep someone whom she loved with her forever, Montressor killed for revenge and to get rid of Fortunado. Emily was a woman who in her earlier years was under severe control of her father. She was forbidden to go out with boys and had very strict rules. Emily had always wanted to be free, and to have a husband, and then when s
Emily dies and then Homer is discovered, there is no way of punishing her if she is dead. Montressor, felt insulted by his friend Fortunado, so he felt he had to get revenge on him, and by taking his life he felt no mercy. She doesn't care about getting away with murder as long as Homer is by her side and with her forever. "I want Arsenic", Emily said as she shopped for a poison to kill Homer Barron. He had felt no sympathy for killing him, only laughter. Fortunado's death goes unheard of as well as Homer's. "It's probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard," in this they are yet to learn that Homer has been murdered by Emily, they just believe it must be something simple smelling, and when they spread lime to cover it up it goes away. Both people take the life of someone else for the sake of their own feeling's, they don't consider that it is a real life they are taking, and it's not just something you can say you are sorry for and give it back, it doesn't work that way. The difference between these two murders are the motives, and the characters reactions. Her father's restrictions on her may have affected her as a woman. She thought she was doing the right thing in keeping Homer Barron dead in her bad, sleeping next to her. "And ten I heard the furious vibrations of the chain", these are the sounds that Montressor hears after he chains up Fortunado. He is so far in the catacombs, he isn't discovered, so therefore it is only easy for Montressor to get away with murder. he got one, she killed him in fear of losing him.
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