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A 5 page comparison of these two tales in regards the techniques used to create an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness. The writer concentrates on the use of these senses to ascribe the soul of insanity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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suspense and hopelessness. As the characters work in the foreground, all that is not character works to create the desired tone that supports the ideal of hopeless terror. Edgar
Allan Poe was the master of building fear through the movement of characters in an atmosphere dark and eternal. His genius resided in building the tale through internal realities of
helplessness. For example, Poe begins The Cask of Amontillado with the mention of a "thousand injuries" against "the nature of my soul" (Poe
154). These injuries must be avenged and "punished with impunity," but there is no such reality (Poe 154). Immediately, the soul has entered the dark tunnel of despair.
Poe builds upon this sense with movements through "dusk, one evening during the supreme madness," the madness of the narrator who sees the "accosting" friend dress in a "conical
cap and bells," who he greets with pleasure because of the plotted revenge (154-155). His entrance into the story will be through "old wines," a cask of "Amontillado" which
the connoisseur cannot refuse (154-155). But the meeting will take place in the "vaults," which are "cold" and "insufferably damp" and "encrusted with nitre" (155). This is the
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by discussing his clothing as "a mask
of black silk," which he draws "closely about my person" (155). Having brought the readers attention to his interment attire, Poe moves his captive into the depths of hell-"down
a long and winding staircase" until avenger and victim "stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs" (156). The vaults and catacombs
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