THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe Summary & Analysis 

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Great video! Once my brain is dead from studying I like listening to analysis videos to stretch my studying a bit longer. I really enjoyed this, a lot more than Fortunato enjoyed this, thanks for posting Carrie!

Can you please do more short stories by Edgar Allan Poe?? Your other videos were so interesting and easy to understand, I really hope you make more analytical videos on Poe's other short stories✨️

i appreciate your art of telling a story ,i really liked

this is the most detailed and satisfying review of this story ive seen! great stuff, thanks

I would not be surprised if Poe actually put bodies behind structures in his existence. Cask, Black Cat,Tell Tale, all proud men who subconsciously admitted or confessed in years forward to boost about their acts. One committed a perfect crime, one just teased authority with impunity, and one just insane. He covered all angles within his(Poe) complex psyche...maybe he had the last laugh through his writing. Author...or a personal diary......

This is my favorite story by Poe, thank you so much for doing this video :D

What an explanation, what facial expressions when you explain, your are awesome , thank you

This is one of my fav Poe stories

THANK YOU for your analysis on this story!

An excellent interpretation. Thanks for the assistance!

Terrific video for anyone pleasure reading, studying, or teaching this short story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado. Beautifully described and interpreted. This should be very helpful for anyone desiring an excellent detailed description of this story.

Watching your videos as I watch Flanagn's The Fall of the House of Usher to refresh my high school memories for the literary references! Your videos are perfect to give me as much detail as I need to appreciate the references and think a bit more deeply about the symbolism without having to reread each story! Thanks for what you are doing!

Wonderful! I enjoy listening to your analysis.

Fantastic breakdown and summary! :) Very helpful!

Excellent insight and summary Carrie! Thank you!

Thank you so much I've been putting off an assignment for this for so long! because it's so difficult on the grammar the story used so you breaking in down in an understandable way really helped me!! ♥♥

The best analysis I have ever seen

That was the BEDT breakdown of Cask of Amontillado I have heard or seen. Perfecto! Subscribed!

Excellent summary and analysis!

Thank you, I have a test with written responses tomorrow and this is very helpful.

Thank you so much for this video!

Also, great job. Please do more Poe.

This helps a lot. I will be reporting tomorrow about this piece. Thank you so much

My favorite short story by Poe, thanks for the video!

Very nice very helpful very clear thank you

This was honestly so helpful thx :)

Thanks for this

Thank You !

Thank you, reading it didn't help me understand but listening to you tell it like a normal story helped me get the rest

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This was super helpful! Couldn’t help but picture Fortunado getting trapped in your brick fireplace! Lol

Very nice!

thank you so much! this helped a lot!! :)

In Genesis the heel crushing the serpent is a prophecy of Christ (the woman's seed) crushing Satan after he bites Christ (the crucifixion). When Fortunato says "For the love of God!" Montressor replies "Yes-for the love of God!" perhaps Montresor feels he is reclaiming his family birhright, i.e. God favors Montressor's vengeance. Thank you for an outstanding lesson!

I love the way you told us the story ❤️ Thank you for helping me through my studies... Good luck

with analysis it made story more realisitic , knowing some cues was wonderful . I was just wondering any writer should have given any one piece of insult that " single " that even seperated from all those accumulated insults would be enough for igniting immolation. Fair would be for audience. But i think i have found after your analysis what i like to add is: Same situation repeated again. In plazzo where he was lonely from the start but Masons like fortunado had not made him their part leading him to be lonely separated, so even in carnival he felt caged in plazzo.Then later situation repeated but place was changed. Write gave the choice to choose retribution of any kind or feel same as wrong doer while wrong doing. By caging him he redressed.

very nice

I would love to see you talking about the short story In the South, by Salmon Rushdie.

very interesting

Since Montessor knows how to use a chain and build a wall, he must have been forced to take up some manual labor

You are great keep it going please!

I would love to hear some analysis of Guy de Maupassant and his style of writing.

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This is so helpful. Do you have any videos on Hemingway?

Good video

A "liker" and subscriber here. Excellent breakdown of this timeless masterpiece by Poe. Poe is similar to Stephen King in that his devious mind is revealed in his work. Someone who could just conjure up a scheme like this and put it down on paper has GOT to be a bit twisted, I think. Someone who could even have THOUGHTS like that! Please let me know your thoughts on that take on it. You've got an excellent channel here. I'm glad I found it.

Do you have a video on Poe's The Raven? I would really like to hear a review on that story, one of my favorites

Hi love ur summary of the cast of amontillado its really brief n will like to know if u can help me with the way of the warld by William Congreve . thanks

I've written an unusual mystery story, entitled HAZARD ON THE LOOSE - which can be found in a volume of my stories entitled SEVEN TALL TALES; available at Amazon as a book or kindle - which you may be interested in; and which bears some similarities to The Cask of Amontillado; in that the denouement takes place in the wine cellar of an old house, where two keen wine buffs are seemingly intent on sampling some fine old vintages. The tale concerns a businessman, by the name of Jack Hazard, who breaks out of jail, with outside help, after serving five years of a fifteen year sentence. He had already promised to murder the four executives that he claimed had deliberately framed him up and saw him sentenced on entirely trumped up charges. One by one they are tracked down and murdered; until only two of the four remain. One of the remaining two hires the services of two private detectives, to add to the police protection he has already. Though it is assumed by most people that Hazard is the murderer the private detectives voice their doubts about this and reason that Hazard would be far too focused on keeping a low profile and avoiding recapture - as a large police force is dedicated to that purpose - to pursue some bizarre revenge vendetta. Will events prove them right? But if it isn't Hazard, then who is the actual killer? Could you guess? Happy listening, and reading.

I know Poe disliked allegory (or write as much anyway), but it's difficult to read this tale without it coming across as one. Fortunato is life (i.e, Fortuna * although it translates as 'fortune; it does not necessarily imply good fortune. Simply the _whims of fortune)._ Which is why Fortune knows his soul so well and caused him so many past harms. Dressed as a trickster, this supposed man of power (Life itself) is revealed more so as an easily manipulated clown. Deeper into the bowels of the earth he is led, where he is at once entombed while still alive. A scenario somewhat analogous to the human condition in general. With his senses dulled ("& a fire in his eyes') Montessor (a name associated w/ learning) leads Fortunato deeper and deeper w/ the promise of the coveted Amontillado; appealing to him as much for the additional drink as to settle the question of its authenticity, that his knowledge alone is capable of determining. Once chained to the wall the bricks can be seen as the moments/years of time, helplessly draining away in front of the living victim. Poor Fortunato is so deluded, denial prevents him from seeing his reality. Until the very end, when the final brick is placed, he is still laughing about what a great story it will make. **I stopped. midway to write this comment. Im gonna feel pretty silly if in the 2nd half you say something similar. chrs.

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Could you do Morella

The Cask of Amontillado is my favorite story by Edgar Allan Poe. It's the perfect revenge story, and a perfect murder. Montresor weaves a very fine cobweb for the innocent little fly Fortunato, who has no idea he is headed towards his doom. Despite the lack of outward violence or gore, Montresor murders Fortunato in a very cold and cruel way. Not only is he relishing in Fortunato's fear and desperation as he slowly starts to sober up, but he also knows that Fortunato will experience a slow and agonizing death. He insures that Fortunato will suffer immensely until his last breath. And the best part is that Montresor not only got away with it but he feels no guilt or remorse. Quite the contrary, he seems quite please with himself.

Where was this book when I was in school

Do The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

Great job! But how do we know that Fortunato DIDN'T die from his cough?

The sad story of Henry

Did people really break the bottle neck like he did with the Medoc? Good way to swallow glass it seems.

How about 'Ligeia'?

My 7th grader got this in week 2, online it says this is a grade 9-11? He's having a hard time with the concepts.

Amontillado is a Spanish sherry, not an Italian wine.

Do Call of Cthulhu 🐙

Isn’t Fortunato chained around the waist, not the wrist?

Fauknér. Pleàse

You should read out adult books as well

I actually had a taste of amontillado. This is my personal opinion, but I think it’s overrated. It’s not worth dying for.

Haha rest in pieces!

Make some slow....y haste dear Mam....

"Amontillado" is actually a very expensive Spanish wine, not Italian. The very pronunciation should have told you that.