Essay: Comparison between "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart". Both stories present cases of premeditated murders and in neither of them there are good reasons for the crimes committed. In the "The Tell-Tale Heart" the only motivation for killing th...

Ironies Found in "The Cask of Amontillado" In the short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe writes in the first person point of view from the perspective of Montresor, the diabolic narrator of this tale, who vowed revenge against Fortunato. Montresor began to d...