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[Suggestion/Discussion] New Short Story Topic - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe #7463

Open username11421 opened 3 years ago

username11421 commented 3 years ago

Edgar Allan Poe is pretty well known for writing short horror stories and some classic horror poems; however, one short story he wrote, The Cask of Amontillado, fits well into the dark comedy category for how ridiculous the punishment was and the mediocre reasoning that the protagonist had for what he did. The protagonist is a freemason who lures a former friend, Fortunato, into the catacombs which he has created using his masonry skills, and gets him very drunk before entombing him behind a wall deep underground. He then leaves his old friend to die.

This story's discussion could be handled similarly to the existing short story of "The Yellow Wallpaper". I think this short story would be a good discussion for Monika to bring up. What do others think?

If there is agreement that this would be interesting, I will write this topic and make a PR.

ThePotatoGuy commented 3 years ago

New short stories are generally fine. Since no one has said otherwise, that should be okay.

username11421 commented 3 years ago

I want to clarify that the intention of this story is to be a topic where Monika asks you if you've read it and if you respond "yes" she will discuss it with you. It's not a story that Monika tells you. Since I noticed that that's what the items in the storytime category are. I was thinking more in the same vein as https://github.com/Monika-After-Story/MonikaModDev/pull/1080.

username11421 commented 3 years ago

Opened PR https://github.com/Monika-After-Story/MonikaModDev/pull/7595

Retrolovania commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity, why not make this a topic about Edgar Allen Poe in general?

He's written a lot of dark comedic works that could be discussed in the same manner as The Cask of Amontillado, as well as other short stories that could be debated as harboring expressions of psychological events, like how The Raven showcases how people may deal with mourning over loosing a loved one.

username11421 commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity, why not make this a topic about Edgar Allen Poe in general?

He's written a lot of dark comedic works that could be discussed in the same manner as The Cask of Amontillado, as well as other short stories that could be debated as harboring expressions of psychological events, like how The Raven showcases how people may deal with mourning over loosing a loved one.

I tried to make suggestions based on precedent. Here are some reasons I don't want to write specifically a topic for Poe.

  1. Right now there's only one short story that Monika asks you to read; I thought it would be nice to have more
  2. From what I can tell, Monika usually discusses literature more through the lens of the work than its author. We hear about 1984 with little information on Orwell - he is mentioned in the pen names topic briefly. We don't hear about his life fighting in the Spanish Civil War and how it influenced him to write many of his novels. Nor do we hear about Huxley's thought process in writing Brave New World and his brother Julian.
  3. I also feel a Poe topic could be taken in too many directions, I wouldn't know which is "best". Someone who really liked the dread of "The Raven" or "Fall of the House of Usher" might be disappointed to not see it mentioned or someone who appreciates the romantic side of Poe might be aghast that "Annabelle Lee" or "To Helen" isn't mentioned. Still someone else might take it in the direction of the poor health practices at the time; how everyone Poe cared about died from Tuberculosis and he was possibly asymptomatically spreading it to them. Some might want to hear about the older movies based on his works or the more recent, very loose film "The Raven". It's just me personally, but I'm not keen on trying to encompass all of that in a reasonably short topic.