In the short story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ written by Edgar Allen Poe‚ the setting is integral to the story because it enhances the disturbed mood which is shown throughout the story. The author writes how the narrator had buried Fortunato alive by locking him into a section where he could stack bricks to not let him escape. The text states‚ “ I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in” (Poe 39). This evidence shows how
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through imagery and setting. The setting is an old Italian crypt with many piles of bones stacked up against the wall and where it is dark and the air is stale‚ almost giving it a hellish look. The suspense is built up because the reader knows that Montresor is intending to exact revenge on Fortunato but are oblivious as to what. As the setting seems to get darker and darker the reader starts to realize that something bad is going to
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Amontillado": 1. How does the author want the reader to feel while reading "The Cask of Amontillado"? I think the author wants the readers to feel suspense and anxious to know what’s going to happen next. I felt anxious trying to figure what Montresor was going to do to Fortunato‚ I didn’t expect him to intoxicate him with wine and basically bury him alive. 2. What techniques does the author use to help you visualize the place‚ the people‚ and the events that are taking place within the story
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influential‚ and I have the right to say what I want. I continued to wander and my legs were moving like jelly. My vision became distorted. I took a bottle of Pimonte and drank like it was water. I abruptly came to a stop when I saw my friend Montresor. He was delighted when he saw me. He approached me and said: "My dear Fortunato‚ you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado‚ and I have my doubts." "How?" I said. "Amontillado
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Produced by Craig Baumgarten‚ Marc Butan‚ Gaye Hirsch‚ Tove Christensen and Adam Merims‚ Shattered Glass premiered in 2003. I selected this film because my favorite unit of this class was the psychology unit. I have always been fascinated about learning how people have become the people they are and what made them do what they did. I watched the trailer and was very intrigued. I had never heard about Stephen Glass‚ so I decided to watch it. Shattered Glass’ purpose was to entertain and inform. The
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enjoyable place‚ as well as the façade Montresor is putting on to conceal his plans to kill Fortunato. When the characters move to the catacombs‚ the environment begins to become more revealing‚ describing “long walls of piled skeletons‚ with casks and puncheons intermingling‚” which foreshadows Fortunato’s death. As they descend deeper‚ the darkness and skeletons that fill the catacombs express the theme of death and vengeance much more strongly‚ and allows Montresor to finally fulfill his
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get you killed‚ if you are too caught up in it. 2. Characters: a. Montresor is the narrator and is portrayed as coldhearted and ruthless. He kills his acquaintance because he is seeking “equal” revenge after he has been insulted. He tricks his victim into going into a catacomb (where he buries him)‚ by asking him to taste some wine‚ to see if it is Amontillado. b. Fortunato is the victim who has insulted Montresor. He is portrayed as a drunk‚ foolish‚ and conceited man. Fortunato’s conceitedness
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Montresor knew that Fortunato had a weakness for the spirits and he used this against him to lure him to his death. “He had a weak point-this Fortunato-He prided himself upon his connoisseurship in wine” (Mays 108). Montresor knows that he will not turn down the invite for a chance to drink Amontillado. He uses the imaginary Cask to lure him into the catacombs
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when the narrator’s “heart grew sick” (Poe 351) but claims this reaction as an effect of the ” dampness of the catacombs” (Poe 351). This tells the readers that Montresor had a feeling of guilt and maybe even pity for Fortunato’s death‚ but disregards this and blames it on the moistness of the catacombs. The story also tells that Montresor “hastened to make an end of [his] labor” and “forced the last stone into its position” (Poe 351). These statements gave the readers an idea that the narrator had
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they know‚ or think they know. In the “cask of Amantillado” we are shown how bias can impact a story when Montresor has the idea of geeting revenge on Fortunado because of the lack of respect Fortunado apparently showed him‚ but when we read the dialogue between the two men Fortunado is very friendly towards Montresor even agreeing to help taste the wine with him. So we see that maybe Montresor has a different perspective on how the story went then Fortunado did‚ we are seeing bias in this story. Bias
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