Natural Consequences In William Blakes A Poison Tree

Have you ever felt the burn of a consequence? The bullet-like words that come out of your parent’s mouth, right as they sear and tear apart your free time. I bet you have, we all have. Although when you do something so despicable that your consequence is death, now that deserves an explanation. In the poem â€Å"A Poison Tree† two neighbors are feuding indirectly, this goes on and on until one neighbor acts upon his anger and grows a poisoned apple tree. In the short story â€Å"Cask of Amontillado† Montresor (the protagonist) finds out that Fortunato has beaten Montresor thousand times, and when he is finished beating, Montresor can tell that Fortunato is his sworn enemy. Montresor lures Fortunato down into a dungeon-like place and entraps him in†¦show more content†¦Fortunato is characterized as an easily persuaded person who is competitive in wine tasting. Montresor lures him to his fate as his consequence and for someone who beat and tortured someone he is really drunk and really clueless. In the story â€Å"Cask of Amontillado† the author Edgar Allen Poe uses the events before Fortunato’s death to characterize Montresor as a shifty character, and Fortunato as a terrible drunk. These events lead into consequence and show how Fortunato’s death came to be. In the poem â€Å"A Poison Tree† by William Blake, two neighbors feud and the action of one of them changes everything, while the other broods in his own anger, these two characters develop and Blake uses this to his advantage to show natural consequence. One of the neighbors decides to become a thief, and steal from the other’s apple tree, he might not know it, but this is probably the worst decision of his life, â€Å"And into my garden stole† (13, Blake) The demonstration of this mischievous act demonstrates characterization. Right off the word â€Å"stole† you can figure out that the thief neighbor is a rotten person who goes behind people’s backs, and off the words â€Å"my garden† you can see that the other neighbor is a fellow who likes his garden to himself. These two characters show the different roles in the first part of natural consequence, aShow MoreRelatedThe Notion of Duality of the Human Soul in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience4371 Words   |  18 PagesOf The Human Soul In   William Blake’s Songs Of Innocence And Experience Tembong Denis Fonge             Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience generally subscribe to the main stream appreciation that they present the reader with two states of the human condition - the pastoral, pure and natural world of lambs and blossoms on the one hand, and the world of experience characterized by exploitation, cruelty, conflict and hypocritical humility on the other hand. However, Blake’s songs communicate experiences