The controversial subject of madness commonly manifests itself in romantic writing and has been highly controversial over time. Some say that people who seem crazy are so far above our own level of thinking and understanding that we cannot begin to relate to them and that we can find genius in the form of ordinary crazy people who connect to God and divinity in a “normal” way. “People don’t understand. Through works such as “The Cask of Amontillado and “The Castaway,” the authors question madness with ideas that show the possible results when one searches deep within oneself for a divine spark or intuition. Both of these stories tackle madness in different forms, and the madness itself is made up of divine experiments gone wrong; the person who receives the divine vision is unable to handle its raw truth. As we delve into Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," a powerful story of one man's revenge with "impunity," we see that the narrator's vengeance was only a materialization of his sinister and unrestrained human nature. The author vividly describes the resentment that the narrator feels towards the man who insulted him and the efforts he makes to take revenge. Montressor, the narrator, swears revenge on Fortunato, whose “thousand wounds…[he] had borne as best he [he] could, but when [Fortunato] ventured to insult him, [he] swore to take revenge” (Poe). As the project moves forward sinuously, Montressor thinks and acts with a certain madness that one cannot help but notice. Generally speaking, people would not resort to murder simply in the case of a crude and insolent offender, but the narrator found himself looking deep within himself and what he discovers is a soul malicious person who wishes to harm those who have insulted him. He makes a plan... in the middle of paper... they are so sure of their own destiny and God's plan. God is mysterious, no human who has not been exposed to God's will has confirmation of what the truth is, and one could argue that it will be something so incredible that people can't even start to imagine the truth. For this reason, Pip is unable to fully accept what God exposes to him in the ocean. Throughout the world and the history of human existence, the nature of God and ourselves has been constantly questioned. Everywhere we turn we see the madness in our society today, and it's interesting to think twice, to wonder what it really means to be mentally unstable. As long as the universe exists, living beings may never know the answer; all we can do is form an opinion, think, imagine, wait, listen and develop a sensitivity to everything around us, where the truth can hide anywhere, in anyone..