A Summary of Poe’s Short Story “ The Cask Of Amontillado” One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado is revenge. In this summary theme I intend to demonstrate how dramatic irony is used all along the short story as a way of reminding us the true intentions of the character who vowed revenge. Firstly I will make a brief summary of the short story: the story is supposed to …showed first 75 words of 337 total…

…showed last 75 words of 337 total…Fortunato and Montressor is very kind, even affectionate towards him. He greets Fortunato... "My dear Fortunato, you are luckly met..." The reader that knows Montressor's real intentions notices here that this greeting has another meaning, different from what it would mean if we did not know about Montressor's plan. story to call the readers' attention to the double meaning of words, and for extension, as one of Poe's favourite motifs, the duplicity of human nature.