The+Cask+of+Amontillado

​​ ​William Talero Branden Rowlands Thomas Hartmann Brendan Frisbie Bryce Weidlick Edgar Allen Poe p.7 published 1846
 * The Cask of Amontillado**

__** Plot Diagram **__ __//Exposition//:__ Montresor tells the crime that Fortunado had made. He insulted him so now he vowed revenge. He begins to talk to Fortunado and never shows his anger. Fortunado shows no fear or anything towards Montresor. __//Rising Action//:__ Montresor needs to trap Fortunado somehow. He noticed that he really like wine. Now he knows how to trap him. He tells Fortunado He has Amontillado and he doesn’t know if its reall or not. He’s about to consult with another person about the wine but Fortunado was too proud and he has better judge of the wine. Montresor argues with him saying that Fortunado is too busy, by doing that it makes Fortunado want to taste Fortunado. Montresor gets him drunk and brings him home to an empty house. He now takes Fortunado into the catacombs. //__Climax:__// Montresor lures him down into the catacombs. When they reach the bottom Montresor tricks him into a recess and chains him up to two staples. Montresor Then begins to wall him in. Then he throws his torch in the hole. Fortunado starts to scream. Montresor gets scared and begins to yell louder than him so no one can hear the screams. //__Falling Action and Denoument__//: Then Fortunado starts laughing thinking it’s a prank. Yet Montresor shows him how serious he is. Fortunado starts begging for mercy. Montresor just finishs his wall and says “ **In pace requiescat”** which meant Rest in peace. Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. He had a brother named William Henry and a sister. His parents had died when he was young. He was then taken in by John and Frances Allen. Yet they never really adopted him. He went with the Allans to England in 1815 and attended school in Chelsea. In 1820 he returned to Richmond. There he went to the University of Virginia and studied Latin and poetry. As Poe was in school he began to drift apart from his step father after he had been in debt from gambling. To help himself Poe left school and joined the United States Army and served for two years. His step mother died in 1829 and just for a short time enlisted in the West Point Military Academy. He was dismissed a year later. In 1831 when His book Poems he moved to Baltimore and lived with his aunt Maria Clemm. She was the mother of Virginia Eliza Clemm. He married her at the age of 13. is brother Henry was also living with the Clemms but he died of tuberculosis. In 1835 he became an editor of the Sourthern literary Messenger. After Virginia and Edgar got married, they moved to New York City in 1836. Poe’s only completed novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was published in 1838. Virginia died in 1847. Poe started drinking alcohol more and more. He seemed to have no purpose anymore. A year later he was engaged to Elmeria Royster, his sweetheart from Richmond. In 1849 he went on a tour on poetry and lecturing. He was trying to raise money so he could start his magizine The Stylus. Some say he died from alcoholism, Others say he had been killed or that he had a disease. Yet most say that he was found laying in the street, unconscious and brought to the Washington College Hosbital in Baltimore, Maryland. He died shortly after. October 7 1849 was the date. He was 40 years old. he was buried in an unmarked grave at Old Westminster Burying ground of Baltimore. The grave still stands today as a stone with a carving of a raven and the inscription,
 * __ Background Information __**

**Original Burial Place of Edgar Allan Poe From October 9, 1849 Until November 17, 1875. **
 * //Quoth the Raven, Nevermore// **

"The Black Cat" "The Cask of Amontillado" "A Descent into the Maelstrom" "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Gold-Bug" "Ligeia" "The Masque of the Red Death" "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" "The Oval Portrait" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Premature Burial" "The Purloined Letter" "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" "The Tell-Tale Heart" "Al Aaraaf" "Annabel Lee" "The Bells" "The City in the Sea" "The Conqueror Worm" "A Dream Within A Dream" "Eldorado" "Eulalie" "The Haunted Palace" "To Helen" "Lenore" "Tamerlane" "The Raven" "Ualume"
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__** Setting **__ From the little information that Edgar gave us, we concluded that the integral setting was in Italy around the mid 1800's. The beginning of the story takes place at a carnival celebration before lent. then the remainder of the story takes place in the catacombs under Montressor's mansion. **__Time Period Research__** From what I could find on the time period, I learned that the italian revolution was taking place in 1848 where people were rioting and punishing people for things that were not laws. I belive that this partially inspired the plot of the story where Montressor punished Fortunado with death for a crime he thought he committed. The cask of amontillado is told in first person from Fortunado’s point of view. You can tell because he uses “you” to talk to Montressor. He isn’t actually in the story at the time he is telling it. He is actually recalling events that happened 50 years earlier. Because he is still telling the story from half a century ago, he seems mentally unstable, so he is not very reliable.
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pg.7 In The Cask of Amontillado they talk about the old days which makes me think ofcastles, jokers and kings. pg.9 The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. pg.8 I passed down a long and winding staircase, that led into the vaults. pg.11 The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. pg.11 I ceased my labors and sat down upon the bones. pg. 12 I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. **__Characterization__** Montresor is round and static. He is round because he has a friendly personality but he has his anger for example he does not like being insulted but he does not mind being injured its when insulted he gets mad. He tricks fortunato which means that he is a smart person he is also courteous because he cared about Fortunato’s cough which could be deadly. Montresor is static because he does not change at all during the story because in the beginning he vows revenge upon Fortunato because of insulting him and at the end of the story he feels the same way because he chains up fortunato and put a tiers on him to help keep him there for eternity just for insulting him one time. Fortunato is round and dynamic. He is round because he is a happy cheerful man at the beginning on the story through out the story he gets worried because of how long its taking to get to the cask of amontillado. He is also brave because he has a cough that does not worry him even though it could be deadly he is happy at this point to because he gets to drink some wine and he is most likely thinking of the amontillado. Fortunato is dynamic because at the beginning of the story he thinks of Montresor as a friend offering him a taste of amontillado (a good expensive wine) but at the and of the story there is no wine but he gets chained up and then restrained more with tiers and his opinion of montresor changes and he think montresor as a mean man because he yells for help and from that you can see that Fortunato changes his opinion of Montresor. The story “The Cask of Amontillado” has a few different mood changes but the whole story starts with a feeling of anger or a disturbance of the Monstresor when he gets angered by being insulted by Fortunando, his acquaintance and then he gets a feeling for revenge on Fortunando and the Monstresor tells him a story of the Amontillado wine so that he could lure Fortunando down into the catacombs. The stories mood then became mysterious because you didn’t know exactly what would happen, but you knew it would be bad for Fortunado. Then the Monstresor gets Fortunado drunk and chains him to the wall then the story becomes gloomy as you realize the Monstresor is leaving Fortunado for death then the Monstresor leaves and closes the doors behind him. Then the mood of the Monstresor is one of satisfaction as now he had got his revenge. But then after I thought about it my mood became confused because I realized that the Monstresor killed Fortunado just because of insults. But I also thought the Fortunado may have deserved it for repeatedly insulting Monstresor.
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When Montressor and Fortunado are processing through the catacombs, Montressor keeps asking Fortunado if he wants to turn back, while he is walking to his doom. While Montressor was building the tomb around Fortunado, he feels it necessary to explain every detail in detail, making the process feel a lot longet than it is.
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Montresor’s place in the story is to trick Fortunato into going in the dungeon in his basement were he chains Fortunato up and puts tiers on Fortunato to secure him in place even more so there is no way for him to get out of the dungeon. Fortunato’s place in the story is to get tricked into going into a dungeon for a bottle of wine to taste to see if it is worth the money paid to his surprised there is no wine just some chains and tiers to tie him up with for eternity.
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PG 7 “When he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” – Fortunato has insulted the guy who is speaking at the moment and in the story the guy takes the insult the worse because of if pride he has and because of his family crest plus his family phrase which it is nemo me impune lacesit it means no one attacks me with impunity. PG 7 “I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado” – a pipe of amontillado is expensive to come by and is considered a good wine for the time period and fortunato wants to taste it so the guy is saying that he has some in his house locked up in his basement (dungeon) to keep it safely locked up so no one can steal it away from him because its so expensive. PG 8 “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry” – fortunato is jealous that Luchesi is going to taste the amontillado before he gets a chance because he is a wine taster that gets money to basically taste wine and fortunato might not have tasted it before because of how expensive it is to pay for it even though it is good wine it still can be faked so if u pay full price with out a wine taster it could be a lose of money PG 9 “The cough is mere nothing it will not kill me” – fortunato has a cough that is really bad because he can not speak for minutes at a time continuous times but it does not bother him because he wants to taste the amontillado because I is a famous wine that is expensive to buy and afford. PG 10 “you are not of the mason?” – the guy is asking fortunato if he is a mason a mason is a group of people who are secret well known but has secret meetings and so on. Fortunato was asked if he was a mason because the guy though he did not understand he replied not I then was asked you are not of the brotherhood? Fortunate said how? Then he was asked is he was a mason. PG 12 “In pace requiescat” – fortunato was killed by the guy who lead him to the dungeon fortunate was locked up in chains and was covered by tiers (pieces of armor to hold someone still and locked up) because this is when the guy gets revenge on fortunato and “In pace requiescat” means may he rest in peace because fortunato is dead
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