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Marina Rovina

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Contrast & Compare Essay - Edgar Allan Poe Short
Stories

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Ian Bagwell

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February 18, 2019.
 Compare and contrast essay: two Edgar Allan Poe stories.

In this essay, I will compare and contrast two short stories by the American author Edgar Allan Poe:
The Mask of Red Death and Cask Of Amontillado. First, I will present the two short stories, giving a brief
summary of the two stories.
In “The Mask of Red Death”, Poe takes the reader to a country whose population is being completely
decimated by the plague relentlessly. Counted from the point of view of an omniscient narrator, we watched
with some regret and contempt, the young Prince Prosper weaving plans in order to overcome his own death.
This utopia that he finds capable of making real follows in parallel to the suffering of a people that forgotten by
its ruler is extinguishing itself in an increasingly voracious way. However, this is only part of the Prince's
apparent madness, since his idea of ​taking refuge with his friends in a castle so fortified that the plague would
never dare to approach becomes increasingly insane when we realize that he really is happy there even
knowing that thousands of people are dying out there. To crown it all more macabre, Prince Prosper organizes
a masked ball and gives vent to his terrifying genius, through the creation of fantasies that mix the dream with
the nightmare, the real with the fantasy, the horror with the beauty, innocence with cruelty in such an
impressive way that the reader begins to question the limits of sanity not only of him, but also of himself, since
we are slowly realizing that in this story death is not the true antagonist, but but the hero who brings justice in a
lethal way to the powerful who dared to think they could triumph over it.
In “Cask of Amontillado”, the tale begins, part of the relored of Montressor, with the following phrase:
support the best that I could as a thousand and one insult of Fortunato, but when it began to enter by the insult,
I vowed revenge. He then concluded that for revenge to be valid, it must be unpunished and recognized by the
sufferer. On a carnival night, Montressor finds Fortunato already embryonated and proposes a study on his
residence to verify if the wine is bought in the past, it is a legitimate amontillado. Fortunato who was reputed to
be a great connoisseur of wine on request and orders for the palace of Montressor. The house was empty
because the owner had dismissed all the employees tonight. The path to the winery is feasible for the future,
several coughing bouts due to saltpeter are present on site and Montressor offers an event that includes some
crises for a few moments. The wines were stored in the catacombs of the palace, which housed the remains of
Monotor's ancestors. When questioned about the coat of arms and motto of his family, the owner of the palace
responds that the coat of arms bearing his family motto was "Nemo me impune lecessit" which means no one
hurts me impunity. When the last crypt of the place arrives, Montressor is the plan of revenge: it chains Fortune
in the cellar and it lives alive, but before it makes its breath know of his revenge, but in no moment the story is
clear why Montressor is getting revenge. The rhythm ends with Fortunato concluding that the crime remained
in stone for half a century and exclaims: In pace requiescat!
It may not seem so, but these two Edgar Allan Poe tales have more smelehances than we can imagine.
For example, both belong to the literacy of the Gothic genre, shared a small theme, and the characters shared
many of the same characteristics. Both happen in a party space, one happens in the carnival and another in a
ball, with fantastically mysterious people, without knowing who is who. Both main characters have a mysterious
and macabre air. The two stories are of terror, like every tale of Edgar Allan Poe, and both speak of death.
It may not seem so, but these two Edgar Allan Poe tales have more smelehances than we can imagine.
Both stories are similar in many ways. For example, both belong to the literacy of the Gothic genre, shared a
small theme, and the characters shared many of the same characteristics. Both stories happen in a party
space, one happens in the carnival and another in a masked ball, with people fantasized mysteriously, without
knowing who is who. The two have similar characters, like the main ones, although they present differences in

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their behavior, their mysterious personalities are compatible. The two stories are of terror, like every tale of
Edgar Allan Poe, and both speak of death.