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The Cask of Amontillado
By Edgar Allan Poe
What is a Cask?
Casks are barrels for storing wine or other drinks, and they come in many sizes.
What is Amontillado?
ə-ˌmän-tə-ˈlä dō
Sherry or a type of wine
Why would a story be named after an alcoholic beverage?
Parts of the Story…
SETTING: Mid 1800’s in Italy during Carnival season.
PROTAGONIST: Montessor (French: My treasure)
ANTAGONIST: Fortunato (good fortune, luck)
POINT OF VIEW: 1st person, Montessor is the narrator
Carnival A religious event during the week before
Lent in Roman Catholic countries to bid farewell to meat-eating.
Carn + Val = FLESH (Meat) + FAREWELL
Participants engage in extreme dancing, parting, alcohol, eating, and masquerading.
“The Cask of Amontillado” is set
during the “supreme madness” of Carnival.
In such a riotous atmosphere, it is easy
to see how a crime could go unnoticed.
Life of the RichPalazzos (mansions)
The wealthy could opt for family catacombs beneath their estates.
Literary Terms to remember…
Protagonist
Antagonist
Mood
Theme
Foreshadow
Symbol
Imagery
Irony A contradiction between appearance and
reality, between expectation and outcome, or between meaning and intention.
Three different kinds of irony: Verbal Situational Dramatic
Verbal Irony
Occurs when someone says something that deliberately contradicts what that person actually means.
Ex: Negative connotations- Sarcasm. “Go ahead and keep sleeping during class, why don’t you?” could be said to a sleepy student even though the teacher clearly doesn’t want the student to keep sleeping.
Situational Irony
Occurs when something happens that contradicts our expectation.
A man jumps over a giant waterfall like Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives, only to take a clean-up shower where he slips on the soap and dies from trauma.
Dramatic Irony
Occurs when the reader or audience is aware of a contradiction that a character(s) does not know.
Catacombs
Underground tunnels or rooms dug out to use a cemeteries or tombs. Sometimes used for religious worship.
And now, a trip through the catacombs in Paris.
virtuoso
Noun
a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field.
accosted
Verb
Greeted in an aggressive way.
fettered
Noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
connoisseur
Noun
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
precluded
Verb
to prevent or to make impossible
retribution
Noun
To pay back, a punishment for a misdeed.
afflicted
Verb
Suffering or sickened
explicit
Adjective
Clearly stated
recoiling
Verb
Staggering back
termination
Noun
To end
subsided
Verb
To settle down, to become less active
Why might Fortunato’s name be IRONIC?
He is not fortunate in his interactions with Montresor, which lead to his death.
This is the opposite of what we might expect for someone whose name implies good luck or fortune.
Give examples of IRONY in the story, including SITUATIONAL,
DRAMATIC, and VERBAL IRONY. Situational: Fortunato expects Amontillado and
instead receives death
Dramatic: Fortunato doesn’t know he’ll be killed; but reader does, and thus gets the trowel joke (p. 171) and the cough joke (p. 170)
Verbal: the compliments M pays to F; p. 171 M “implores” F to return.