Tuesday, April 18, 2017

In "The Cask of Amontillado," how would the story from Fortunato's point of view be different from the current narration in Montresor's point of view?

Many
people would react to this question by
saying it suggests a logical absurdity, because Fortunato
is killed at the
end and therefore can't be the narrator. Before we get to that issue, and the

inexplicable type of account this would be in which a man is killed but
somehow
"lives" to tell about it, here are just the surface qualities such a
story would have
to have, if so narrated:

1) Fortunato is
drunk, so the wording would
presumably show the difficulty he is having in
shaping his story. The overall drift, and the
individual sentences, would
lack cohesion and lucidity. The narration would anticipate features
of
stream-of-consciousness as it was to be employed by writers such as Joyce nearly a
century
after Poe. Perhaps even if they didn't go this far into a deliberate
absence of straightforward
storytelling, Fortunato's words would present a
kind of blur causing the reader to have little
or no clear idea of what the
story is about. A veil would be placed in front of the action,
a...


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