The Cask of Amontillado and A Rose for Emily

I chose to call the short stories The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, and A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner. The two argon alike(p) in that in both(prenominal) of these stories the main characters get absent with premeditated death penalty. Emily, in A Rose for Emily, send offs her companion, bulls eye Barron. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor felt that his friend, Fortunado, had insulted him, and so he chose to seek revenge. The contrariety in these two murderers is their motivations, with Emily committing murder to keep someone whom she love with her forever, and Montressor killing purely for revenge. \nAlthough Montresor and Emily are very different characters, they do have one involvement in common in that they commit premeditated murder. In The Cask of Amontillado Montresor has made undisputable the house is empty introductory to Fortunatos arrival. We are told that, there are no attendants at home...I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had condition them explicit orders not to meet from the house (Poe). Additionally, we are as well as awake that he took the turn over with him while the mortar was already in the catacombs. In comparison, Emily also prepares for her murder by purchasing the arsenic used in the poisoning of her husband Homer Barron. Emily does not seem to fancy remorse for actions. In fact, she sleeps with Homers wild body in a room decorated as a bridal suite. some(prenominal) Montresor and Emily choose to keep their homicidal acts to themselves and they did not seem to criminal maintenance if their victim was truly sensible of why they were being punished. Emily keeps her murder a secret from the inbuilt town for decades. We learn this when Homer, or what was left of him was rotted on a lower floor what was left of the nightshirt. We have to admire if Homer ever knew what was coming. At the end of The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunato is aware of what is happening to him and who is doing it, although he believably did not understand why.\nWh...