10/5/2023 0 Comments Edgar allan poe short stories![]() He comes to hate the cat, and when he finally attacks it, his wife gets in the way, and he kills her instead, hiding the body behind a wall. He finally hangs the cat, which coincides with the burning down of his house and the resulting loss of his property, but after some months he adopts a similar cat, which differs from Pluto only in the patch of fur on its chest. The narrator was once a good person and an animal lover, and he married a wife of a similar disposition, but he has turned to drink and begun to abuse his wife, his pets, and particularly his cat named Pluto. He tricks Fortunato into the niche and chains him there as he walls his enemy into the makeshift tomb. He invites Fortunato into the Montresor catacombs to taste a sample of some recently acquired Amontillado, and through a combination of false goodwill and pricks to Fortunato's pride, he brings the drunk Fortunato to a niche hidden deep within the catacombs. Montresor holds a grudge against Fortunato and decides to enact his revenge. He dismembers the body and hides it beneath the floorboards, but when the policemen come, he is agitated by the sound of the loudly beating heart and is finally driven to reveal the truth to the policemen. As he stifles the man, he hears what he perceives as the beating of the old man's heart. In the tale, he cannot stand the sight of the old man's eye, so he decides to carefully and methodically kill him, explaining that no madman would be as careful as he is. The narrator claims that he is not insane and offers the tale of why he killed the old man as proof. At midnight, the revelers are interrupted by the masked figure of the Red Death, which finally brings to the plague to the door of the hiding courtiers. ![]() After several months, Prospero holds a particularly grand masked ball that features an ominous room with an unnerving clock. Battling unreasoned fear, the narrator faces a number of death traps, including the eponymous pit and the swinging pendulum.Īfter the virulent plague of the Red Death strikes Prince Prospero's country, he and a thousand of his courtiers choose to lock themselves away from the disease and hold parties to pass the time until the contagion leaves. An unnamed narrator is sentenced to death by the Inquisition and awakens to find himself in a dungeon being watched closely by his captors, who intend to punish him by causing him mental torture and physical peril.
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