No secondary sources. The paper concludes that Poe wrote about a plague because the sheer number of beloved people who had died during his lifetime must have seemed like a plague to him. Bibliography lists five sources. A 7 page paper looking at the theme of revenge and victimization in this horror story by Edgar Allan Poe. The paper concludes that Poe deliberately left open the question of whether Fortunato was the only victim of Montresor s diabolical revenge, or whether the ultimate revenge was on Montresor himself.
Bibliography lists seven sources.
Bibliography lists four sources including Poe's short story collection.