The Utilization of Incongruity in Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

It's Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary utilization of incongruity all through The Cask of Amontillado that builds up the short story as a fascinating applicant deserving of careful examination. The capable utilization of the gadget is used by the creator to make this awful and intense perfect work of art. The utilization of incongruity in the story furnishes it with diversion and mind, and makes the piece more advanced. It's identified through style, tone and the unmistakable utilization of embellishment of Montresor, the storyteller. From the earliest starting point the peruser can see the nebulous vision of incongruity in the story. The very name Fortunato would plainly infer this is a man of favorable luck, when the real case is that he is going to endure a for the most part awkward end.

The setting in which the story happens again demonstrates an unexpected component. It's amid Venice's Carnival that the characters meet. Jamboree should be a period of festivity and joy for everyone. Be that as it may, in the story it is a period for vengeance and passing. The climate changes definitely when the two heroes leave the jollity of fair for the bleak and devastate tombs underneath Montresor's palazzo. The peruser gains from the storyteller that when he initially meets Fortunato has obviously been drinking and is wearing numerous hues, taking after an entertainer. His ensemble proposes that he will be the one playing the trick. Then again Montresor is wearing a dark hued shroud and has his face secured with a dark cover. The way the storyteller treats his adversary is one of the clearest cases for amusing components.

At the point when the characters meet, Montresor understands that Fortunato is distressed with an extreme chilly, all things considered he tries him looking 'surprisingly well'. Montresor acts in the most regular and agreeable path towards the man protest of his retribution, and even acclaims his 'friend's' learning in the subject of wines. Likewise upon their gathering, Montresor starts a mental control of Fortunato. He guarantees that he needs his insight to learn that the wine he has bought is in fact Amontillado. He recognizes that Fortunato is occupied with another business (the festival of the fair), so he would go to Luchresi, one's identity, made to accept, is a contender of Fortunato's. To these words, Fortunato is constrained by his pride to go with Montresor to the vaults (where the Amontillado is kept), disperse his questions and furthermore to demonstrate his higher status than Luchresi as an expert of wine. Truth be told, amid their way down under in the tombs, the bent personality of Montresor, sets out to allow Fortunato to backpedal, because of the relatively deplorable sogginess and indecency widespread in the vaults and Fortunato's condition of wellbeing. The storyteller unmistakably thinks about the unyielding idea of Fortunato, and is sure that his pride would not enable him to withdraw. Along these lines, Fortunato proceeds with his excursion towards death by his own particular will. Noteworthy lines in the story are given by Montresor because of Fortunato saying, 'I won't kick the bucket of a hack.' To what Montresor reacts, 'Genuine - true...' And then likewise when the deceptive storyteller toasts to Fortunato's long life, definitely realizing that he was producing to results the evil made arrangement of retribution. Additional confirmation of amusing segments is found with Montresor as a 'Mason'.

The peruser expects that this implies he is an individual from the recognized gathering of men, yet he really is a stonemason, somebody whose activity is to get ready and utilize stone for building. Montresor makes utilization of his ability as a bricklayer and also the trowel he had demonstrated his adversary to develop the divider that will bolt up disastrous Fortunato inside the specialty. At the point when Fortunato is caught behind the divider his vindicator constructed, Montresor re-echoes and even outperforms Fortunato's hollering clearly to identify with the casualty. He's clearly being amusing since he is really charmed by what he has done and just quits screaming till Fortunato is noiseless. The story closes with Montresor's words 'In pace requiescat!' (May he rest in peace). His words are unmistakably wry: he has been the entertainer of the terrifying homicide, at that point how might he appeal to God for him to rest in peace?

The Cask of Amontillado is a deliberately created short story. The inventiveness and imaginative virtuoso of Poe floods through this odd story. Each attribute of incongruity Poe utilizes adds to a solitary and important impact: Conveying his message in an inventive and unique way, not enabling the peruser to stop.