Theme In Cask Of Amontillado

Cask of amontillado theme:
Freedom and Confinement
The different between freedom and confinement is extreme in “The Cask of Amontillado.” For the freedom of onecharacter, another must die. Part of the story takes place in a underground graveyard. Bones abound. Freedom becomes less and less as a possibility for thecharacters. Such confinement makes us (“the readers”) and the characters appreciate the fresh air. Hopefully, it makes us, the readers, think more deeply about what makes usfeel stucked, and what makes us feel free.
Betrayal
Betrayal drives the action in “The Cask of Amontillado." One character’s betrayal sets off a chain ofcompensation, enacted below ground in a common place . Behind all this revenge and death, the story is about trust. Without trust there can be no betrayal
Mortality
“TheCask of Amontillado” has a terrorific fixation on death, dead bodies, and bones. Edgar Allan Poe’s last short story, written only a few years before his death, is aprecise and compact expression of his fears concerning mortality. But don’t worry – Poe express plenty of humor into all the doom and gloom. And in the end, we allfeel a little happier to be alive.

Foolishness and folly

In “The Cask of Amontillado” foolishness and folly can cost you your life. The story amplifies humanfoolishness and folly to extremes so horrible and cruel they become vices. ”The Cask” only has two characters. By the end of the story, their combined sillinessconcludes in tragedy and pain for them both. The tragedy is what makes us think more profoundly about their foolish ways in the hopes that we can avoid ending up them