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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Cask of Amontillado Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fortunato, who is not really the protagonist, has more in common with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fortunato, who is not really the protagonist, has more in common with Poe than does Montresor.  Fortunato most likely suffers from consumption, as did Poe's beloved young wife.  Poe makes many references to Fortunato's coughing and inability to deal with the dampness of the passage. Additionally, Fortunato is drunk when Montresor leads him further into the catacombs.  Poe writes that:

"[Fortunato] turned towards [Montresor], and looked...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:44:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which of the author's life struggles are illustrated when the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which of the author's life struggles are illustrated when the protagonist walks the path down the stairs to the cellar in "The Cask of Amontillado"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:53:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fortunato is intoxicated and has a bad cough.  Going down into the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fortunato is intoxicated and has a bad cough.  Going down into the catacombs is dangerous to his health.  Naively, he proceeds despite Montressor's obvious faux warnings:


The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc. We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. I paused again, and this time I made bold to seize...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:35:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe" why is Fortunato naive?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe" why is Fortunato naive? And 3 quotes to explain why.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:52:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Montresor, the main character in "The Cask of Amontillado" emodies the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Montresor, the main character in "The Cask of Amontillado" emodies the theme of how letting old grievances rankle and fester inside of you produces a very bitter and poisonous fruit indeed.  Look at the parallel comparisons.  Montresor opens his tale by mentioning the "thousand injuries" and "insult" that his friend Fortunado had given him.  But instead of going up to Fortunado and talking to him about these grievances, he keeps them inside...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:40:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
Compare the themes in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 
Compare the themes in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Poison Tree" by William Blake.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:17:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The man vs. man conflict in this story is that of our protagonist and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The man vs. man conflict in this story is that of our protagonist and narrator, Montressor, behaving in conflict with his victim, Fortunato.
Fortunato's fate is first foreshadowed for the reader by his somewhat ironic name, which contains the root word "fortune." We do not know until the end of the story that this "fortune" is not a positive one, but rather, his own death, the most absolute and negative fate of all.
The story itself is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:51:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's Montressor (the narrator and protagonist) vs. Fortunato (the victim...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's Montressor (the narrator and protagonist) vs. Fortunato (the victim and antagonist).
The problem is...we don't know what Fortunato has done, if anything, to initiate the conflict.  Montressor says that he has born a "thousand injuries."  The reader, therefore, must deduce that, since Fortunato so willingly goes into the catacombs with Montressor and does not pick up on all the signs of his impending doom, that the "thousand injuries"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:44:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the man vs. man conflict of the short story "The Cask of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the man vs. man conflict of the short story "The Cask of Amontillado"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:04:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    There are several good reasons why Edgar Allan Poe chose to use...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    There are several good reasons why Edgar Allan Poe chose to use the catacombs as the primary setting for his macabre short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." Symbolically and ironically, the catacombs of the Montressors serve a number of purposes. It is the perfect place to avenge a man who has slandered his name: the burial chamber of past relatives. It is a place where no one else has the right to passage, thus the body will be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:55:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the catacombs in the short story, "The Cask...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the catacombs in the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:19:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[you are gay]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you are gay]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:57:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    While you could hardly call them "friends" at this point in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    While you could hardly call them "friends" at this point in the story, Montressor kept himself busy after chaining Fortunato to the pilings in the Edgar Allan Poe short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." After luring Fortunato to "the extremity of the niche," Montressor made his move. Before Fortunato knew what was happening,

... I had fettered him to the granite. In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:45:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While the narrator's friend was chained, what was Montressor doing in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While the narrator's friend was chained, what was Montressor doing in the Edgar Allan Poe short story, "The Cask of Amontillado"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:40:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You can rephrase it saying : a wrong is not revenged if the revenger...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can rephrase it saying : a wrong is not revenged if the revenger either is punished for taking revenge or doesnt make the wrongdoer aware that he is taking revenge.That is wat written in my literature book hope my answer helps.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:35:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fortunato succumbs to the flattery of Montresor and is deceived by him...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fortunato succumbs to the flattery of Montresor and is deceived by him to accompany him into the deep recesses of his cellar where he has allegedly stored the cask of amontillado wine. Montresor tricks Fortunato under the pretext of seeking his expert opinion on a cask of wine supposed to be of the rare and costly amontillado variety which  he has allegedly just received,

 "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:45:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens to Fortunato in "the Cask of Armontillado"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What happens to Fortunato in "the Cask of Armontillado"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:32:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:55:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the characterization of Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the characterization of Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:50:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe immediately gives us a sense that the narrator of his...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cask-amontillado/q-and-a/during-story-what-observations-provide-clues-112917</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe immediately gives us a sense that the narrator of his story is overly obsessed with getting revenge on his "friend" Fortunado, who had supposedly caused him a "thousand injuries."  We never understand what these injuries are, when or even if they actually occurred, and if so, how exaggerated the narrator's claim really is.  He states in the opening paragraph:

At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:38:03 PST</pubDate>
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