Outline
Thesis: The Cask of Amontillado is about revenge.
I. Introduction
II. Psychoanalytical Criticism
A. Poe's Revenge
1. Father
2. Mother
III. New Criticism
A. Irony of Revenge
1. Controlled
2. Structured
IV. New Historicism
A. History's view of Revenge
1. Po...
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