Perspectives

In what follows, we will add some points for putting “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe into perspective. These points can serve as inspiration for a meaningful discussion about the text, based on the context it was written in.

Literary period

Edgar Allan Poe is considered a forerunner of detective stories. He lived and wrote during the Romantic Age in the United States and his ...

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Works with the same theme by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are two other short stories by the author which share the same themes and motifs as “The Cask of Amontillado”.

The three stories are first-person narratives of criminal narrators, whose sanity is debatable. Furthermore, in “The Black Cat”, the narrator also uses the walls of his cellar to imprison his own wife, ...

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Works with the same theme by other authors

An interesting poem which explores the theme of vengeance is “A Poison Tree” by William Blake, published in 1794. William Blake was a poet belonging to the Romantic Movement in poetry in England.

In the poem, a first-person narrator depicts the way in which he ...

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References to pop culture

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a very popular story in modern times, being adapted into films, animations and radio shows over thirty times from 1950 onwards.

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