In honor of Halloween this weekend...what is your favorite tale by Edgar Allan Poe?
It's a tough choice, but I have to go with
The Cask of Amontillado. This tale is interesting because we don't know why Montresor kills Fortunato. Why do you think he did it? I think he was insane. Here's how it starts:
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled -- but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
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It's a tough choice, but I have to go with The Cask of Amontillado. This tale is interesting because we don't know why Montresor kills Fortunato. Why do you think he did it? I think he was insane. Here's how it starts:
