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An 8 page paper which examines how Poe innovatively employed the use of symbolism throughout his last short story. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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more information on using this paper properly! While literary fame eluded Edgar Allan Poe in life, it has surpassed even his wildest expectations in death. While he
was very much a product of nineteenth-century Romanticism, he pioneered a unique style which was all his own, "a forerunner of Symbolism... it stands as a historical example of later,
more extreme forms of Romanticism" (Sucur Thematizing the Subject from Gothicism to Late Romanticism). Nobody understood the powerful tool of symbolism more succinctly than Edgar Allan Poe, whose masterful
use transformed an ordinary story into a truly extraordinary literary work. In "The Cask of Amontillado," Poes final short story, published in 1846, his employment of symbolism not only
gave the tale an added dimension it would not have had otherwise, but also symbolized the authors own tortured life, and is perhaps the only glimpse the world will ever
have of Edgar Allan Poe, the man, not the myth. The story itself appears to be a simple tale of murder, but "yet the subject is not murder but
revenge. It is a study of emotions" (Hamilton VI "Cask of Amontillado"). Through the use of symbolism, Poe chillingly probes the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses
to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narrator is a wealthy Frenchman, Montresor, who seeks revenge (for reasons never fully specified) against
an Italian aristocrat and wine connoisseur, Fortunato. Luring him to his home on the false pretense of introducing him to a cask of Amontillado, a Spanish sherry purportedly stored
in his wine cellar / family burial vault, Montresors cunning enables him to dispose of his rival by literally burying him alive. The symbolism is immediate in the choice
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