Short stories written in different time periods consist of many of the same styles/elements. The authors of these short stories have many hidden meaning behind their words. “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edger Allan Poe, the “Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and, “Cast of Amontillado” by Edger Allen Poe have similar styles such as, using symbolism to enhance and foreshadow the reading.
The author in Cast of Amontillado uses symbolism through the meaning of the title its self “ Cast of Amontillado” since Amontillado mean wine, and in the story the plot mainly happen based on the characters drinking wine, I thought the name symbolizes the results/effects in an irony way or drinking wine in this story. Since the character lures the other character …show more content…
in the masque of the red death the different room colors each have a different meaning to it. The red and black represent the death, blue means the birth/ beginnings, and together the rooms represent the different stages of life and how you cannot escape death, and your life will always come to an end. The gigantic clock on the western wall gives a performance to everyone in the building because, it has another meaning, example “hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock…chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest grew pale…” (20) .The gigantic clock sort of represents how time is ticking by and every second you get closer to death. The clock keeps a reminder to everyone that death is approaching, and you cannot escape no matter how rich you are. The way the people observe and react make readers recognizes there is something behind the definition that it is just a clock. Because people grew pale and did not move, hints that it is not just a clock it has another meaning to