the cask of amontillado

the cask of amontillado

As I was reading the cask of amontillado, I noticed how Edgar created a dark setting through intense vocabulary and hidden meaning. I imagined the surroundings were shades of charcoal gray by the way the story was read. The sentence, " We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs," paints a picture of death. Catacombs spark the thought of the myth that features a beast banished to wander a labrynthe for eternity. That one thought created the feeling and personal foreshadowing for the duration of the story. Another line, when used to describe a coat of arms, left a vivid image in my head: "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure ; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel." A foot thundering over a serpent who'd bit it seconds before. Revenge. The main character was hinting to his victim of his fate, which would be to follow the main character into the depths of a dark space, in promise of seeing a rare artifact. Once there, drunk and humiliated, ( in a jester's outfit,) he's chained to a wall as his murderer begins to seal the entrance brick after brick. The last thing the murderer hears is the jingling of the bells on his victim's clothing.