In the stories The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and The Interlopers by Saki both share a common theme and conflict. The theme that both stories share “blood will have blood” or, in other words revenge. The shared conflict is man vs. man, which each story illustrates in different ways.
In The Cask of Amontillado the theme is stated in the very first paragraph. The main character Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe,7). Montresor is going as far as to horrifically murder Fortunato just because of an insult, that isn’t clearly explain So, this is a clear sign that Montresor’s act of revenge is a sign of being insane. Also, it clearly states that he wants revenge. In The interlopers the two main characters Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym had been enemies since both. They have inherited the feud between their families over a strip of woodland that is used for hunting between the two properties. “The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as a boy they had thirsted for one another’s blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this wind-scourged win...
