blog 3

I chose option three for my third blog.  In “ The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin use irony and symbol in their stories to make them interesting, dark, and to create horrific and suspenseful masterpiece.

In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. We see the different types of irony he uses to build suspense for example the name Fortunato means to be lucky but in this case he is an unlucky man on his way to his death.  Montresor mentions “Not only punish, but punish with impunity”(poe).  I this quote we can see the intentions he has for his dear friend Fortunato. Also when Montresor sees Fortunato and says “ My dear Fortunato you are luckily meet” (poe) he thinks he is happy to see him but we can tell how hypocrite montresor is  which he has the perfect murder planned.  He leers Fortunato by giving him wine and getting him drunk when there are sounded by all the skeletons Fortunato makes a toast “ to the buried that repose around us” ( Poe ).  He is making a happy toast not knwing he would soon be the one buried.  Moreover when the narrator mentions that he is worried for Fortunato health that they should go back “ We will go back; your health is precious”(poe).  This shows that Montresor is having compassion but at the end we find out that he didn’t he leaves him to die. 

 In "the story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin has dark irony which plays a major role in this story from the get go we know this story will have a strange ending. At the beginning the way that Mrs. Mallard reacts to the news of her dead husband surprises me because if my husband would have died I would not be happy. For example when she gets up and goes to her room to be alone we expect her to go and grieve for her husband but she starts to look at the outside of her house " she could see in the open square before her house the top of trees that were all acquirer with the new spring life.  the delicious breath of rain was in the air" (Chopin).  This quote symbolize a new beginning for her. But when she whisperer these words and repeats them over and over again "free,free,free"(Chopin). The reader understands the happiness for her husband’s death she is free from her unhappy marriage Throughout the story we continue to see irony another example is the death of Mrs. Mallard.  she is in shock when she sees her husband and from the surprise she passes away" when the doctors come they said she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills"(Chopin).  At the beginning of the story it talks about her heart disease how they are afraid to tell her the bad news of her dead husband but instead she dies from her heart disease from seeing her husband. But this story took place In the 1800 at this time the woman didn’t have a say they had to obey their husbands so I can see why she was happy she was finally going to have her freedom and not fallow her husband demands.

The Last Moments

Option 1. 

In the story “An occurrence at owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce was one of my favorite stories from this selection. The story uses the third person narrator.  Peyton Farquhar is the protagonist, very shadowy figure and he becomes a two sided character.  The beginning of the story is very descriptive explaining the place and situation he was in. “the man’s hands were behind his back, the wrist bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck”. (83)  In this quote we can see tension and description of how they have tied him.  This story also focus on the emotion which is happening to the character in his last moments. The author also puts his focus on Farquhar’s dying thoughts how he wants to escape and have his freedom and return to his loving family.  When he closes his eyes he thinks of the perfect getaway how he can brake lose form the ropes and by diving he can evade the bullets.  
"An occurrence at owl Creek Bridge" uses the third person point of view towards the end of the first part of the story the narrator shifts to omniscient point of view. "If i could free my hands,.. i might throw off the noose and spring into stream. by diving i could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home .my home thank God... my wife and little ones are still beyond the invader's farthest advance".(84). This tells us that Bierce takes us inside Peyton Farquhar's thoughts of his emotional feelings and how he wants to escape death and return to his family.  this gives the reader a diffrent interpretation of reality and the way we become aware of how the time passes. when Farquhar is dropped from the bridge one second becomes hours. " He springs forward with extended arms.  as he is about to clap her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of cannon then all darkness and silence. (88) This quote shifts us back to reality .  His last few seconds was seen before the rope killed him. If this story was written in the first person perspective the narrator could of not entered Farqhuar's mind, the suspense and the place of the story would of got lost within the story