Keywords: narrating subject, monstrosity, imagination and metaphor, manipulation, another's discourseĮdgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" indicates how language becomes a monstrous weapon in the hands of a modifying and creative subject. Thus, when read against the background created by Fortunato's comic and good-intentioned discourse, Montresor is observed to reveal his own monstrosity with his effective use of metaphorical language. Relying on Bakhtin's ideas of the carnival and double-voicedness in language, the article also claims that though Montresor strives throughout the story to centralize his discourse and represent Fortunato (one of the two main characters in the story) with his monstrous speech as an evil person, Fortunato's carnivalesque discourse refracts Montresor's omnipresent discourse and defies his act of domination and misrepresentation. Relying on Kantian and Romantic ideas of the role of the subject and its imagination in the monstrosity of language, the article argues that the narrating subject of the story, Montresor, uses the animating and manipulative power of speech to construct the world of the text and destroy the enemy. Abstract: This article studies Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in terms of the rhetorical and manipulative use of language by the first person narrator of the story.
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