The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allen Poe - 1282 Words

In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, the cask of Amontillado, many readers take the words of the characters at face value. This story is designed and presented in a very different manner and most of the people are not ready to accept the facts that are presented in the story. Due to the structure complex structure of the story many other people explain the thoughts of the story in a very critical way. The main purpose of this paper is to see and analyze the critical reviews of how Frederic Jameson would analyze it. Most of the critical views presented in this story are up to the mark, but most of them are considered very effective and true. As for Frederic Jameson in regards to the Edgar Allen Poe story titled; the Cask of Amontillado.†¦show more content†¦The only thing that is revealed in the story is the plot of revenge towards Fortunato by the narrator. The narrator presents the following statement in regards to the argument, for example, â€Å"I must punish, but pu nish with impunity. (218)† This means that the sins that the victim committed goes on unaddressed based on his deep desire, and carefully cut out plan to execute his revenge on his perpetrator. In this story, the victim ensures that his plan is full proof in and nobody knows the events that took place on that fateful night until he decides to reveal what took place fifty years ago (Poe 15). He does this by charming his victim based on his expertise in relation to wines that were deemed to be of high class, thus the name, â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado.† He had selected a day that would be of festivities and even released his servants so that there would be no witnesses. He had then laid a trap at his house chambers whereby he enclosed his victim and left him to die. The victim as he is about to be enclosed realizes that this was all a plot along in order to trap him at the house chambers. Jameson uses this story and the way the plot of execution was carried out to perfection in order to show Poe’s skills in terms of fulfilling his analytics, carrying out his puzzle-solving abilities and execution of Montresor’s plot in terms of rationality that Poe seemed to value in his books. At the end, when