How Sweet It Is

How Sweet It Is

Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Cask of Amontillado,” is an interesting short stories. Poe falls into the literary period known as the Romantic Movement in the United States. The period is known as Nineteenth Century American Romanticism--- a period which extols the remote and faraway, the never-never land of ghouls and goblins. The stories of revenge were intensely romantic. Clanking chains, castles, dungeons and dragons: these subjects became a lush garden of delight for romantic writers, especially after Edgar Allan Poe. Poe delved into the dark psyche of men to record their misdeeds in a way that had never been done before. Poe goes beyond realism and naturalism to produce the exotic tale of spellbinding drama, a world where few people ever trod.
Poe displays a combination of irony, wit, and style. Poe takes us inside the mind of a madman and allows the “readers to vicariously ‘live’ the story through Montresor, the first person narrator who te...