Comparison of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe´s The Cask of...

â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† by Edgar Allan Poe and â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† by Flannery OConnor explore the depths of evil and what makes an individual truly evil. They both question are understanding of evil and the different forms it may present itself in. These stories do an equally good job at getting the reader to see true evil first hand, even though they present evil in much different ways. As humans we can differentiate evil from good most of the time there is usually a clean cut line from a morally just action from one that is not. When we look at Falnnery O’Connors â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† we see many forms of evil even before we meet the criminals. The family has a trip planned to Florida which the grandmother does not approve of because she would rather visit Tennessee. The grandmother then tries to per sway the family by instilling fear bringing up â€Å"The Misfits† who were local criminals that just escaped from prison; although her actions may seem rather insignificant and perhaps even debatable if they are evil, the grandmother’s actions can still be perceived as selfish. The grandmother’s selfish motives can be viewed as a form evil even if it is not the worst evil. This begs the question where precisely does the line lay on what is done through purely evil motives and if the line is really as clear cut as we may possibly think it is? In â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† the narrator Montresor claims that Fortunato has hurt him a thousand times before, but