Romano Vargas
Ms. Watts
English Composition II
May 2, 2008
Death-Despair-Revenge: A Recipe for a Good Drama

“Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.”
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II


Death, despair, and revenge, these three words form a treacherous triangle to any reader who dare enter the mind of Edgar Allen Poe. In many of his works these expressions seem to form a reoccurring theme. Comparing the works “The Mask of the Red Death” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, we will discuss these themes while analyzing the method behind Poe’s madness.
In much of Poe’s Work, the presence of revenge and death seem to precede each other. In both stories, if someone dies, then revenge follows. If someone commits revenge, death seems to find that person. With the death of the commoners in "The Masque of the Red Death", revenge seems to follow the prince who abandoned them. When Fortunato betrays Montresor in "The Cask of......

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