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The Cask of Amontillado
The setting of the carnival provides us with a backdrop in which "anything goes." This popular time period is a celebration of life, particularly, of the things of life that make life all the more...
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The Cask of Amontillado
There is definitely a tension; Montresor makes overtures of friendship and comradery with Fortunato while all the while despising the other man and plotting his destruction. Indeed, it is through...
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The Cask of Amontillado
It's possible that Poe intended this tale's principal theme to be a moral one, that of the wrongness of seeking revenge. If so, however, we would have to account for the fact that the avenger in...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The three parts of psychoanalytic theory are the id, the ego, and the superego. These three parts of the psyche are said to function together to create a living, acting human being. The id is...
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The Cask of Amontillado
There's been much speculation on whom Montresor may be addressing, fifty years after the fact. The second sentence reads, "You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however,...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Allegories are stories in which characters, places, or events stand for ideas or events. For example, in medieval drama, a person called Envy might stand for and enact the sin of Envy. Both "The...
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The Cask of Amontillado
In the opening sentence of Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor claims that Fortunato had caused him a "thousand injuries" but does not go into specific detail regarding...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is a tale of revenge. The narrator, a man named Montresor, lures his victim Fortunato deep into the family catacombs beneath his...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Poe is the master of suspenseful writing and unique plot twists. He develops suspense through the use of setting and the characters. When Montresor begins the story immediately we know we are...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato actually says he will not die of a cough. When he starts coughing because of the nitre on the walls of the catacombs, Montresor suggests they go back to upstairs to spare his health. He...
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The Cask of Amontillado
This story is narrated from a first-person objective point of view. This means that the narrator uses first-person pronouns like I or we and that he is a participant in the events that occur. It...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The most fruitful avenues for a research proposal on "The Cask of Amontillado" are probably enquiries into the historical background of the story. Here are two possibilities. It is often claimed...
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The Cask of Amontillado
These events take place during "carnival season" in Italy, the two or three weeks just prior to Lent, the forty days leading up to the Easter holiday. This is why there are so many parties and...
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The Cask of Amontillado
In “The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allen Poe’s powerful tale of revenge, the reader sees how an obsession with vengeance can overwhelm a person. When we meet the narrator, Montresor, he is vowing...
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The Cask of Amontillado
As a literary device, imagery is: "descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work. Imagery...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The main plot of Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” is easy to describe. Montresor, a wealthy man, feels that he has been insulted by another man named Fortunato. The precise nature...
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The Cask of Amontillado
We have no evidence that Montresor has sufficient justification for the level of his intense hatred of Fortunato. First, Montresor is not specific about what Fortunato has done to earn his...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The plot of "The Cask of Amontillado" unfolds as a flashback. Fifty years have passed since the main events of the story took place. Although we are not certain, it seems that Montresor, the...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Here is my attempt at a paraphrase of Poe's typically nineteenth-century, florid prose into the less elaborated and more scaled-down language of our own age: I had been able, as best I could, to...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Normally ethos, logos, and pathos are synonymous with rhetoric and writing or giving speeches. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was first to categorize these three techniques in the art of...
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The Cask of Amontillado
When Montresor tells Fortunato that he believes he has purchased a large quantity of a rarer Spanish wine called Amontillado, he knows that Fortunato will never believe it is possible and that...
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The Cask of Amontillado
At the beginning of Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor elaborates on his definition of the perfect revenge. After vaguely describing the ways Fortunato had caused him...
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The Cask of Amontillado
An analysis of a short story should contain descriptions of the story's plot, theme, setting, characterization, and style. Here are summaries of these various elements that you can expand upon. In...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Poe creates suspense throughout his classic short story by concealing Montresor's plan to murder his enemy, characterizing Montresor as an unreliable, cruel man and cleverly foreshadowing...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The defense attorney would surely build a case on an insanity plea. After all, sane people do not typically plot murder against a person who has insulted them. Montresor claims that he had endured...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor is insane, vengeful, cunning, deceitful, and murderous. Montresor is not in his right mind. He is some kind of psychopath, imagining things that are not real. He imagines that Fortunato...
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The Cask of Amontillado
In a story, the climax is that moment of greatest emotional intensity. In "The Cask of Amontillado," it comes when Montresor walls Fortunato up in a niche in the wall of the catacombs and Fortunato...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe creates suspense in "The Cask of Amontillado" through the physical journey taken by the central characters, his eerie symbolism, and his references to sickness. These elements work...
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The Cask of Amontillado
It is difficult to know if Montresor's revenge was justified because the reader doesn't exactly know what he's avenging. All we know, and this from a rather unreliable narrator, is that at some...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The setting significantly contributes to Montresor's success and allows him to manipulate the unsuspecting Fortunato, who is distracted by the "supreme madness of the carnival season." By choosing...
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The Cask of Amontillado
At the beginning of Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor mentions that he vowed to get revenge on Fortunato for causing him a "thousand injuries." Montresor then proceeds...
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The Cask of Amontillado
VERBAL IRONY. My favorite example of verbal irony in "The Cask of Amontillado" comes when Fortunato has a coughing fit during their descent into the catacombs. "Enough," he said; "the...
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The Cask of Amontillado
To me, the major difference between the two is the nature of the two villains. In one story, we have Montresor who has an actual reason (although we are not told what it is) to hate his quarry....
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The Cask of Amontillado
We know that Montresor is insane because he kills a man for no reason. To be insane is to not have full use of your mental faculties. In other words, a person thinks things that a sane person...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Use Montresor's cues to do this. In the beginning of the story, he relates that Fortunato has injured him thousands of times, but he doesn't describe a single one of them. He also says that he has...
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The Cask of Amontillado
One can infer that Montresor is a wealthy man, judging by his many servants and large palazzo. He also seems well educated, speaking eloquently and using Latin and French phrases in his speech....
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The Cask of Amontillado
The Montresor coat of arms has a golden human foot on a sky blue background; the foot is stepping on a serpent rampant which is turning and biting into the heel of the foot even while the snake is...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor makes a really effective enemy for Fortunato because he is proud, diabolical, and very intelligent. He understands people very well, and he is able to exploit this highly developed...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The point of view in "The Cask of Amontillado" is first-person, also called first-person narrative; this style uses "I" or "We." In first person point of view, the text is narrated by a character...
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The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic horror tale. Poe uses many tropes of Gothic stories, including dark imagery, underground chambers, and violent revenge. The most important element in...
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The Cask of Amontillado
In trying to lure Fortunato to his tomb, the narrator uses a bit of reverse psychology on the man: You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be...
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The Cask of Amontillado
In "The Cask of Amontillado," a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, the setting of the story plays a critical role in such elements as the mood of the story. The mood of Poe's story is eerie...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Throughout Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado," the protagonist and narrator, Montresor, explains how he formulated and executed revenge on his unsuspecting enemy, Fortunato....
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The Cask of Amontillado
This phrase is best understood within the context of the paragraph in which it appears; Montresor is talking about the need not only for vengeance against Fortunato, but vengeance that is conducted...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The classic horror short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe tells of a man named Montresor who vows revenge after Fortunato insults him. However, he does not take his vengeance...
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The Cask of Amontillado
From the opening hyperbole, Edgar Allan Poe employs several literary elements in his macabre short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." Hyperbole The unreliable narrator, Montesor, opens the narrative...
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The Cask of Amontillado
The essence of dramatic irony is that something is not understood by a character in the play or story which is understood by the audience or the reader. There is nothing that Montresor does not...
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The Cask of Amontillado
It isn't actually true that there's only one instance of dialogue (if we mean spoken words within quotation marks) in this text. If you look towards the middle of the story, the narrator describes...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado" is loaded with irony, and there are several excellent examples of verbal irony to be found. My favorite comes when Fortunato, who is...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" contains both of those literary devices. Repetition occurs when the same words or phrases are repeated in order to make an idea more...
