After reading the Edgar Allan Poe short story entitled "The Cask of Amontillado" I have decided to pose one question, and that question is: "Why?" Why would a man seek revenge on another man in this sort of way when it was clear that at the time he regretted doing it? In the story it says: "My hear grew sick." This is why posing such a broad question is relevant because of his immediate remorse of his actions. Why does anyone feel the need to do this to anyone no matter what they may or may not have done to them? I find it to be very interesting that Montresor never specifies what Fortunato does to him that causes him to seek such revenge on him. Does he not want the reader to know because Fortunato's offenses were petty and no reason for him to be killed for it? This question along with the question "Why?" are the two that I drummed up after reading this short story.
After reading this story and thinking about it for awhile I gathered an opinion about it that makes a lot of sense to me. In today's world a common theory is that literature and other forms of media (video games, movies, television shows, etc) are directly correlated with violence among people. While I find that to be accurate, I also think that authors like Edgar Allan Poe and stories like this one are the direct root of violence throughout history. Stories like these that make killing as a form of revenge so easy to do are, in my opinion, a direct link to a portion of the violence that plagues our world today.
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