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Poe's Literary Vengence


Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the master of the short fiction in Literature. His works seem to be based upon his tumultuous relationship with his stepfather. Grolier's Encyclopedia tells us Poe like his stepfather was an orphan at an early age. It also tells us Poe was reared by John and Frances Allan. He left the country for his early childhood schooling and returned to the United States in 1820. Grolier's says in 1827, he was estranged by his stepfather because Poe refused to work to pay off his own gambling debts. Poe's immaturity lead to anger toward his stepfather. Poe never acted upon his thoughts of revenge, but they seem to have been revealed in his writing ...

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Forutnato to his step- father. Martha Womack quotes from Kenneth Silverman's book Edgar A. Poe: A Never-Ending Remembrance. "Allan much resembled Fortunato being a rich man, respected, admired, beloved, interested in the wines, and a member of the Masons." Womack goes on to quote from Silverman's book "Even the Allan name can be seen as an anagram in Amontillado." In the second paragraph of the story I feel this is where Poe expresses how he dealt with his father's estrangement. Montressor says "It must be understood that neither by word or deed had I given Fortuanato cause doubt my good will. I continued, as my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile was at the thought of his immolation" (149). In his life he did not take revenge against his father instead, he just left and went to Boston. Never giving his father the chance to think that he would seek revenge. In the last paragraph of the story Montressor says "I forced the last ...

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though. John Allan had wronged Edgar and had insulted him. His estrangement of Edgar is proof of the wronging and insult he gave to Edgar. The other two lines are how Poe wished he felt about his stepfather. Poe wished he loved him and wished he had no desire for stepfather's gold, but Poe did aim to be wealthy just like John Allan. Mary Bonaparte says in her book The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, "This strangely resembles the representation, by its opposite, of Poe's own relation to his foster-father, John Allan!" (Bonaparte 491). I feel she is saying in these four lines everything Poe wrote, the opposite happened to him in real life.
The narrator says "I think it ...

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