The Yellow Wallpaper and The Cask Of Amontillado

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is told she needs to rest constantly to overcome her sickness, so she is forced to stay in the old nursery where there is yellow-orange wallpaper with a busy, obnoxious pattern that she hates. She tries to study the wallpaper to distinguish the pattern, and as time goes on she believes she sees a woman moving around in the background of the pattern. Also, during this period of time the character’s condition is worsening, because her husband is causing her mind to weaken by not allowing her to exert herself at all; he says she is not to think about her condition, walk through the garden or visit family. All she can do is sleep and trace the wallpaper, and being cooped up in the room causes her to begin hallucinating. The narrator sees the woman trying to escape from the wallpaper throughout the night, and she ultimately completely breaks down and believes that she is the woman.

The woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is slowly deteriorating in mental state. When she first moves into the room in the old house, the wallpaper intrigues her. Its pattern entrances her and makes her wonder about its makeup. But slowly her obsession with the wallpaper grows, taking over all of

The main characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are both blatantly mad, but what’s of particular interest is how Poe and Gilman portray male and female insanity. The authors are of the opposite sex and come from different backgrounds, therefore, giving very different perceptive on mental illness which is reflected in their character presentation. Unfortunately, the male character created by Poe is portrayed as calculating and psychotic, while the woman invented by Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is labeled meager and fragile minded, a common theme that exist when distinguishing between the sexes.

<br>The way the narrator treats his enemy is one of the clearest examples for ironic elements. When the characters meet, Montresor realises that Fortunato is afflicted with a severe cold, nevertheless he makes a point of him looking "remarkably well". Montresor acts in the most natural and friendly way towards the man object of his revenge, and even praises his "friend's" knowledge in the subject of wines. Also upon their meeting, Montresor begins a psychological manipulation of Fortunato. He claims that he needs his knowledge to ascertain that the wine he has purchased is indeed Amontillado. Furthermore, he acknowledges that Fortunato is engaged in another business (i.e.: the celebration of carnival), so he would go to Luchresi, who, one is made to believe, is a competitor of Fortunato's. To these words, Fortunato is forced by his pride to accompany Montresor to the vaults (where the Amontillado is kept), dissipate his doubts and also to prove his higher status than Luchresi as a connoisseur of wine. In fact, during their way down under in the catacombs, the twisted mind of Montresor, dares to give Fortunato the chance to go back, due to the almost unbearable dampness and foulness rampant in the vaults and Fortunato's state of health. The narrator clearly knows about the stubborn nature of Fortunato, and is

"The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories. In this story Poe introduces two central characters and unfolds a tale of horror and perversion. Montresor, the narrator, and Fortunato, one of Montresor's friends, are doomed to the fate of their actions and will pay the price for their pride and jealousy. One pays the price with his life and the other pays the price with living with regret for the rest of his life. Poe uses mystery, irony, and imagery to create a horrifying, deceptive, and perverse story.

Some of the irony used on this story can be seen when Montresor asks Fortunato about how he's feeling with the nitre and Montresor warns him by saying "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, and beloved. You are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill and I cannot be responsible." This phrases show all the irony necessary for a story to be ironic: first, Montresor saying that Fortunato's health is precious; second, when he says that Fortunato is a man to be missed; but after that, saying that to him it doesn't matter if he dies; and finally, saying that he will not be responsible.

The yellow wallpaper is a symbol of oppression in a woman who felt her duties were limited as a wife and mother. The wallpaper shows a sign of female imprisonment. Since the wallpaper is always near her, the narrator begins to analyze the reasoning behind it. Over time, she begins to realize someone is behind the

An important element in any story is setting. Authors use setting to convey certain feelings brought on by the character’s surroundings. It also subliminally serves to illustrate the character’s intentions. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe uses the dark, imposing setting to do just that, communicate the underlying theme of the story, being death, revenge and deception.

The Cask of Amontillado is short story written by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1846 that focus on a man taking a fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, betrayed him. Because of the plot arrangement I find that this short story was written using a biographical strategy since the similarities between Poe personal life and the characters, misfortunes that Poe had and .

The Yellow Wallpaper is authored by Charlotte Perkins and tells the accounts of a nameless narrator in her summer home with her husband. In the early 1900s mental illnesses were taboo to have or a connection with, in fact the narrator herself had a condition known as nervous depression. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is oppressed by her husband, and by the wallpaper itself.

    "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes a close look at one woman's mental deterioration. The narrator is emotionally isolated from her husband. Due to the lack of interaction with other people the woman befriends the reader by secretively communicating her story in a diary format. Her attitude towards the wallpaper is openly hostile at the beginning, but ends with an intimate and liberating connection. During the gradual change in the relationship between the narrator and the wallpaper, the yellow paper becomes a mirror, reflecting the process the woman is going through in her room.

Throughout the text of The Yellow Wallpaper, one significant moment was when the narrator began to rip down the wallpaper. In the text it says, “As soon as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her” We chose this part because it was a major turning point in the story. The main object of interest that the narrator has is finally being removed. We demonstrated this by having windows on all of the walls of the room. And we added bars on the windows. Behind them we made a night background scene to show that this was occurring at night. One window had a view of a full moon. One had a view of stars and one had a view of the garden. As far as the floor, we painted it white because that

In the short stories “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the house of Usher”, and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, setting has a significant impact on the central ideas and themes that are presented.

The yellow wallpaper in the room shows, symbolically, the narrator was being oppressed. The narrator hated the wallpaper because she saw herself as a prisoner of her own husband. Spending so much time in the room, the narrator studied the wallpaper in details and found the wallpaper somewhat represents her. "There is one place where two breadths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other" (pg280), "Such a peculiar odor, too" (pg 285) etc. The confusing pattern, the bar, the woman behind the bar, and the yellow color of the wallpaper allowed her to feel so helpless, as if she was a bird

Edgar Allen Poe wrote the “The Cask of Amontillado.” It is a short story in which the narrator kills one of the other characters. But what was the reason behind the murder? Was it for revenge or was it for satisfaction? Many people have their own reasons as to the motive behind the murder. The motive behind the murder is revealed through the text of the short story using irony, diction, and imagery.