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.