The dark and dreary writing style of Edgar Allan Poe did not come from a man with a wonderful, glorious life. It did not come from a man that had no worries, no problems (either economically, spiritually, or relationally); it did not come from a man who had thoughts of rainbows and unicorns nor even cute and cuddly bunnies. No, this writing style, which made Edgar Allan Poe so famous, had come from a man that had struggled throughout his life to find happiness, who struggled to barely make ends meet, who wanted most to be loved by those who were the closest to him. As a young child Poe’s mother died of tuberculosis and his father had abandoned him. Later he struggled with the death of his young wife and foster mother. These events had presented …show more content…
Whether it is in a kingdom by the sea or below the alluring city of Italy in the catacombs, or even in a dank dungeon in Toledo ( or perhaps in a masters house for which you take care of him and look after); all the settings have something in common, and all the settings are chosen for a specific reason. In the “Cask of Amontillado” the setting starts above on the bustling streets of Italy roughly around dusk “during the supreme madness of carnival season” where people reek of intoxication and laughter and then it moves on to the nitre encrusted maze like catacombs that lay deep beneath the city of Italy. This setting change was important in the story of the “cask of Amontillado” do to the fact that if the main character and his antagonist had not gone into the vaults and stayed up above in the bust streets; Montresor could have never had walled up Fortunato in the walls of the catacombs where no one could hear him scream and plea and hope that Montresor was actually just pulling a sick joke. For if this was the case it would have made Montresor’s task at hand much more complicated and practically imposable. So you see because they went into the catacombs Montresor did not have to worry about the “succession of loud shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of” Fortunato, although Montresor had a brief moment of hesitation where he unsheathed his rapier,” but the