The Cask of Amontillado
What is the theme in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe?
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Like many of Poe's short stories, the insanity of revenge is the major theme. We are never really sure why the narrator wants revenge besides some vague mutterings about some injustice done to him.