The Cask of Amontillado :: Literary Analysis, Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is one of greatest American authors and poets. He is well-known as a master of using badinage in his account. The Cask of Amontillado is a annoyance story ab bug out revenge of Montresor upon Fortunato. Fortunato believes Montresor is his good friend, but he ends up with being chained and walled in to the catacombs. There are three qualitys of raillery used in this short story communicatory jeering, dramatic irony, and situational irony. employ these ironies, Poe wants the readers to understand about Montresors friendship with Fortunato.The first irony is verbal irony. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which what is say is the opposite of what is meant. There are many examples of this kind of irony through this story. The first irony is the name Fortunato. Fortunatos name suggests good fortune, or of being fortunate, but he is exactly the opposite, he is killed. Another irony is when Fortunato follows Montresor go to the vault, Montresor acts alike(p) he cares about Fortunatos health, we entrust go back your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved you are happy, as at 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. (1202) merely readers know from the beginning of the story, Montresor only wants to kill Fortunato. And I to your long life, (1202) Fortunato has lived out his life already, it is about to be over. Going deeper into the vaults, Fortunato gets more and more cough outing, and Montresor shows his accomplish to Fortunatos health Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your coughIt is nothing.(1202) But Montresor knows that the more he acts as he cares Fortunato, the more Fortunato wants to reach Amontillado-his dark fate. Fortunato is a man who is being blindly led to his finale by someone who he feels as an admiring friend, but this friend is really a person in searching for his own revenge. The second type of ir ony used in this short story is dramatic irony which irony is when the characters do not know and the people reading the story or watching the play does know. Fortunato appears with an ill-looking He had on a underweight parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted but the conical cap and bells.(1200) He dresses like a jester, and there are a big joke on him soon.