In The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator, Montresor, had been seeking revenge of Fortunato after being attacked from a petty insult. He and the narrator go to the underground graves where Montresor chains him to the wall and begins to build another wall of brick. This is done as a method of “persecution”, psychologically tormenting Fortunato until the last brick is put into place, leaving him to die. “It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” spoke the retaliator (The Cask of Amontillado, 432). The narrator in this tale is dedicated to his own point of view, which happens to be brutal and vengeful like Poe was known to be when he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe wanted to trap the offender and wanted this character to feel as though he did in his everlasting struggle with alcohol addiction. The raconteur’s over dramatic approaches to situations easily compare to Poe’s weak and delusive …show more content…
Creating new, unique, and bothersome tales is what kept part of Poe’s mind in reality. He shaped his psychological challenges and shaped them into famous literature that continues to be read and admired hundreds of years later. Although the misery and the burdens he had to carry produced such “phantasmagoric conceptions”, this closed the window to Poe’s reality which allowed these publications to be made. In spite of the early death cause by alcohol and opium, his struggles are what truly caused his