Essay - Elements of Fiction in Edgar Allan Poe's the Cask of...

Elements of Fiction in Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

***** paper presents a detailed examination ***** one of Edgar ***** Poe's works. ***** writer of this paper uses The Cask of Amontillado to illustrate how the elements of fiction can be used in ***** ***** literature. There was one source used to complete this paper.

***** ELEMENTS OF FICTION

***** our his*****ry, authors of literary works have strived to provide *****ir readers with stories that are concise as well ***** structured. Works ***** fiction, often times have to be more structured and believable than non fiction so that it ***** be taken to heart as a story that may actually happen.

***** Edgar Allan Poe's The ***** of ***** he uses all t***** elements ***** fiction to bring his story alive. If the story were missing some of the elements it would fall short ***** being a believable and viable work of fiction. Each element holds an importance in the ***** and creates a dimension ***** cre*****tes a life ***** its own.

In all fiction, including the one ***** analyzed here there must be several ***** to qualify as a successful work of fiction. There must be plot, characters, and settings. There are many sub elements to the three main ***** and they are used as needed to create the work of *****, but the basic three must always be clearly used. In ***** particular work the elements are cleverly interwoven ***** create another ***** Poe's classic masterpieces of fiction. The plot is clearly illustrated to exact revenge upon the antagonist of the story. While the ***** takes ***** twists and turns it is ***** very unpredictability of it that makes it a classic piece of *****. While the reader ***** led into the tomb like halls ***** narrator never makes clear, his plan of action. It is the most gripping type of plot *****cause ***** ***** the ***** by surpr*****e even when ***** reader felt that they were following the story with a *****-cut understanding from the beginning.

***** ***** ***** to get the enemy to go back far enough into the tombs that he could be sealed in forever without any chance of escape or any***** hear*****g his cries for help. It was a plot that worked its way around the ego of the antagonist ********** of his love for wine and it used many different angles and aspects of fiction to make the characters per*****m. The plot is extremely ***** because ***** ***** ego stroking that is done. May people have met someone who ***** so sure of himself that he believes the rest of ***** world ***** be inferior to him. This was the case in the *****. The narrator ***** the antagonist's cocky attitude to lure him ***** his death, ***** pretend*****g ***** need ***** infinite wisdom in ***** purchase appraisal of the pipe.

***** next element of fiction that is needed for a successful work is character. The protagonists in this story