I got my hands on a barrel of so-called Amontillado wine, but I can't be sure.

At the beginning of the novel, Montresor met Fortunato and said to him: "I got a barrel of so-called Amontillado wine, I am not sure." In fact, he did not Didn't get a barrel of Amontillado.

He just wants to attract Fortunado's attention and lure him into his underground warehouse. As they make their way to their destination, they are reminded repeatedly that the cask of Fortunado is right in front of them.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's classic gothic horror novels. The novel is full of Gothic imagery, with themes including revenge, death, terror, etc. Irony is the main rhetorical device used to express Gothic characteristics in this novel.

This article mainly discusses dramatic irony, analyzing the beauty behind irony and deeper thinking about human nature and values. Poe uses a lot of irony, not only because it helps create a Gothic atmosphere, but also because it sublimates the theme.

In the novel, Poe describes the stupidity, arrogance, jealousy and loss of human nature on the surface, but in fact, Poe implies that the social values ??of that era have been distorted, thus poignantly It satirized the society at that time.