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Poe's The Cask of Amontillado.(Edgar Allan Poe)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050922
Author:Delaney, Bill

According to Edgar Allan Poe's influential dictim regarding the short story published in his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales,

 
    In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which 
    the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished 
    design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at 
    length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it 
    with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. (572) 

The preestablished design, Poe explains, is to produce a single "effect." Needless ...

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