The Paradox of Revenge in Edgar Allan Poes The Cask of Amontillado Ess

The Paradox of visit in Edgar Allan Poes The Cask of Amontillado?The Cask of Amontillado? raises a question pertaining to the multiple source of the self (Davidson 202) Can harmony of ones self be restored once native impulses have been acted upon? This question proposes the fantasy of crime without consequence (Stepp 60). Edgar Allan Poe recitations first mortal point of view, vivid symbolism and situational irony to show that because of mans inner self, penalize is ultimately not possible. Edward Davidson suggests that Montresor, the main character of the story, has the power of moving downwards from his mind or intellectual being and into his brute or somatogenic self and then return again to his intellectual being with his get along self being unimpaired (202). However, Poe tells this story from Montresor?s point of view. The use of first person narration provides the reader with insight into Montresors inner struggles. number 1 person narration is Poes method of insuri ng the reader understands that Montresor is not successful at this harmony. The thoughts and feelings of Montresor lead the reader to conclude that he is not successful at revenge. Montresor says in telling his story, You, who so well know the nature of my soul, volition not suppose, however that I gave utterance to a threat (153). By communicating in this way, the question arises of who Montresor is actually speaking to, and why he is telling this story fifty years later. One can lonesome(prenominal) conclude that it is for one of two reasons he is either bragging or finally giving confession. As he tells the story, it becomes obvious that he has not yet filled his need to win, and now a half of a century later, is still struggling with his conscience. As Gregory Jay s... ...onscious self is obsessed with an evil, the certified must overcome it or a paradox will dissolving agent in which both selves parish. Works CitedBarbour, Brian. Poe and Tradition. Bloom 63-81.Bloom, Harol d. Interpretations The Tales of Poe. New York Chelsea House, 1987.Davidson, Edward H. Poe A circumstantial Study. Cambridge Harvard UP, 1980.Frieden, Ken. Poes Narrative Monologues. Bloom 135-48.Gargano, James. The Question of Poes Narrators. Regan 164-71.Jay, Gregory. Poe Writing and the Unconscious. Bloom 83-110.Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of Amontillado. books for Composition. Sylvan Barnet, et al, eds. 4th ed. New York HarperCollins, 1996. 153-57.Regan, Robert. Poe A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, 1967.Stepp, Walter. The humourous Double in Poes The Cask of Amontillado Bloom 55-62.