Based on the Topic Lecture and the discussion of "Literary Romanticism and the Short Story," use Edger Allen Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado." And Edgar Allen Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart and respond to the following in a 500-word essay:
How do they display or fulfill the central characteristics of Romanticism?
If they deviate from these characteristics, point that out and explain where they differ from the characteristics of Romanticism.