Deceiving others is hard sometimes, but deceiving yourself is practically impossible. The speaker in “A Poison Tree”, “told it not, my wrath did grow” (Blake, 1). The speaker easily hid their feelings from their enemy, but the feelings built up inside of them because they can’t hide their feelings from themself. The anger built up and came out in a brutal way. The narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” deceived their friend Fortunato into going and tasting a cask of amontillado. Montressor used reverse psychology, “I perceive you are afflicted, the vaults are insufferably damp” (Poe, 6), and got Fortunato into the cellar under false pretenses. Their relationship got caught up in web of lies and anger and ended there. Relationships are not all fun and games, sometimes they are full of anger and
Deceiving others is hard sometimes, but deceiving yourself is practically impossible. The speaker in “A Poison Tree”, “told it not, my wrath did grow” (Blake, 1). The speaker easily hid their feelings from their enemy, but the feelings built up inside of them because they can’t hide their feelings from themself. The anger built up and came out in a brutal way. The narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” deceived their friend Fortunato into going and tasting a cask of amontillado. Montressor used reverse psychology, “I perceive you are afflicted, the vaults are insufferably damp” (Poe, 6), and got Fortunato into the cellar under false pretenses. Their relationship got caught up in web of lies and anger and ended there. Relationships are not all fun and games, sometimes they are full of anger and