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Yellow Wallpaper And Cast Of Amontillado Essay

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The short story, ? The Yellow Wallpaper?, written by Charlotte Gilman, and


?The Cast of Amontillado? written by Edgar Allan Poe, are stories in which


the plots are very different, but share similar qualities with the elements in


the story. ?The Cast of Amontillado? is a powerful tale of revenge, in which


the narrator of the tale pledges revenge upon Fortunato for an insult. ?The


Yellow Wallpaper? is a story about a woman, her psychological difficulties and


her husband?s therapeutic treatment of her illness. She struggles over her


illness, and battle?s her controlling husband. The settings in both stories


are very important, they influence the characters, and help with the development


of the plot. In ?The Yellow Wallpaper? the setting helps define the action


as well as to explain characters behaviors. The setting is which the story takes


place is in the narrators room, where she is severally ill, and she is ?locked


up? in the room which served as her cage. The room in which the narrator is


caged in is a nursery, ?it is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with


windows that look all ways. The paint and paper look as if a boys? school had


used it.? The narrator describes the color of the walls as repellent, almost


revolting, it is an unclear yellow with a dull orange. The condition that the


narrator is in, the repulsiveness of the room, and the room haunting her, drives


her into insanity. ?The Cast of Amontillado? takes place in an appropriate


setting, not only is the setting underground, but also in the blackness of the


night. The story begins around dusk, one evening during the carnival season in a


European city. The location quickly changes from the activities of the festival,


to the damp, dark catacombs under the commons. With the setting being so


dramatic, irony plays an important role in the story. Irony occurs when the


reader becomes painfully aware of what will become of Fortunato, even though he


continues his descent into the catacombs in pursuit of the wine. Poe also adds


to this effect, by calling the man Fortunato, who is anything but fortunate, and


has him dressed in a clown?s costume, which portrays him as a fool. Whil

e the


settings in the two stories are very different, the different settings create


the elements to the stories. The narrator in ?The Yellow Wallpaper? becomes


haunted by the wallpaper in her room. The setting takes place in the room, she


dislikes the room from the moment she sees it and fells suffocated by it. Her


feeling of suffocation and being haunted by the wallpaper helps the reader


become more aware of her motivation for tearing the wallpaper down. In ?The


Cast of Amontillado,? the setting creates a different effect. In ?The Yellow


Wallpaper,? the setting helps create the story, and sets the actions of the


plot. In Poe?s story he uses the setting different then Gilman. He uses the


setting to create suspense and to give the reader a sense of how the characters


are felling walking through the catacombs looking for the wine. The dark, damp


basement magnifies the tension and uncertainty of the actions in the story.


While the two stories are very different, the settings play a major role in both


stories, without the setting, both stories would have less style and theme. In


?The Cast of Amontillado? the theme of Poes writing ties in perfectly with


the setting. It is important for Montresor to have his victim know what is


happening to him. He will cease pleasure from the fact, that while Fortunato


slowly dies in the wall, he thinks about his rejected opportunities and his


unbearable regret. As he sobers with terror, the final blow will come from the


realization that his life is ending in his catacombs dying with his finest wine.


The catacombs, in which he dies, set the theme, and relate well with the story.


Without the yellow wallpaper in the short story, the significance of the


wallpaper would not mater, nor would it set the theme or plot. At night the


wallpaper becomes bars, and the wallpaper lets her see herself as a women and


her desire to free herself. She needs to free herself from the difficulties of


her husband, and from her sickness. The settings in both, set up the elements of


the stories and ads to the effect in both of the short stories.


Branson, Leigh W. Edgar Allen Poe?s Literary Neighborhood, 17 Mar. 1997*htt://www.geocities.com/Athens

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