Compare And Contrast The Cask Of Amontillado And A Poison...

â€Å"I vowed revenge.† (Poe 1) Revenge plays one of the biggest roles in The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree. Edgar Allen Poe is the author of The Cask Of Amontillado, and William Blake is the poet who wrote A Poison Tree. The authors Poe and Blake use conflict and setting to convey the theme that suppressed anger sometimes induces revenge which can result in explosive violence. The setting in A Cask of Amontillado and in A Poison Tree is used to convey the theme and reveals the chain of suppressed anger, revenge, and violence. In A Poison Tree, the author uses a tree to show the growing anger and creates a fake setting /reality to show how he killed a man. The setting is the tree which he is growing. â€Å"And I water’d it in fears night†¦show more content†¦In The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree, Poe and Blake use the settings of a tree and the catacombs to explain the suppression of anger and the finality of violent revenge. Conflict in The Cask of Amontillado and A Poison Tree also reveals the theme that suppressed anger can sometimes lead to revenge which can result in explosive violence. The man vs. man conflicts in both of the writings are examples of revenge fueled violence. In A Poison Tree, the speaker has a direct man vs man conflict with another man, and he doesnt deal with it properly, so he ends up killing the man. The ultimate ending of a conflict without resolution is the explosive violence that emerges with suppressed emotion and anger. The conflict which occurred between the speaker and another man was serious enough for the speaker to inflict ultimate damage and reckless violence against his foe. The speaker baits his foe into a trap, describing â€Å"And into my garden stole, when the night had veiled the pole: In the morning glad I see my foe outstretched beneath the tree.† The speaker tells of the foe falling for taking the shiny bait which is the fruit of his wrath, and sees the foe dead from the poisonous fruit. The speaker shows no remorse and is happy with the outcome. This conflict is used by Blake in expressing his theme by supporting the result of explosive violence that stems from repressed emotion. In The Cask of Amontillado, it is montresor vs fortunato and montresor goes to