Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

Polonsky (54) maintains that part of Poe's aesthetic harmonize to the author is that "The world of the mind is divided among ?Pure Intellect, Taste, and the honorable Sense.'" Montresor provides us with an intellectual and moral justification for his goal, "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon contumely I vowed revenge" (Poe 666).

The lack of remorse in Montresor is unmingled from his delight at trapping Fortunato by using the hinge on of sherry to lure him into the catacombs. The coldly methodical plotting of the narrator and the setting, dark, damp tombs, are within the Gothic style.

As Polonsky (51) writes, part of Poe's aesthetic demands "a close circumscription of space is perfectly necessary to the effect of insulated incident: it has the force to frame a picture.

" If any circumscription of space frames "The Cask of Amontillado," it is the catacombs or tombs to where Montresor single-mindedly lures Fortunato to his death. The ulterior vaults are perfectly characteristic of the Gothic style of architecture. As much as Fortunato is bewildered and shocked by his ultimate entrapment in them, the narrator seems to take a delight in his predicament, "He stepped unsteadily forward, while I followed immediately at his heels. In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his furtherance arrested
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