The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary & Analysis

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Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe provides an in-depth analysis of the plot, themes, and symbols in Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado.
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In this brief but chilling tale, narrator Montresor puts into motion a fantastical and cruel revenge fantasy against his sworn enemy, Fortunato, who believes they are friends.
Tempting him with the promise of a taste of Amontillado sherry, he leads him into his family catacombs, plying him with wine and flattery. Poe slowly reveals to the reader Montresor's true intent in leading Fortunato into the charnel depths with his trademark command of atmosphere and pacing.
Troubled American writer Edgar Allan Poe exhibits his mastery of suspense in the horrific short story "The Cask of Amontillado,” which was first published in 1846. Replete with death, deception, and a disturbing denouement, this twisted fable is a touchstone of the horror genre.
Did you know that The Cask of Amontillado was inspired by a spooky story Poe read called “A Man Built in a Wall,” about workers who found a skeleton mysteriously entombed behind a church wall in Italy?
Like most Edgar Allan Poe stories, The Cask of Amontillado is rich with literary devices including themes of revenge, folly of pride, and paradox. Motifs and main characters such as dampness, Montresor, Fortunato, wine, and masquerade also work to create the psychological horror Poe is known for.
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@ashttroz 4 года назад

thanks for helping pass my english class

@Doms_world499 3 года назад

Facts

@ibrahimalvin1915 2 года назад

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@dr.lishbrook1290 Год назад

This analysis was very profound and revealed a number of ironies and parallels I do not think I would have caught on my own! Something I would like to add, however, was that in your analysis of Fortunato, you claimed that his name was ironic because he was in fact very unfortunate. This can be even more so ironic, however, because he led a very fortunate life. A rich man and a connoisseur. It is eiry how a man can lead a fulfilling and rich life, only to die a lonely and unsuspected death! This was very clever on Poe's behalf and it begs the question: What are true riches? A man who lives a life of wealth and gluttony for material goods dies all the same as a poor man. I believe this theme was a brilliant underlying message to those who caught it!

@hajirahaamir8727 3 года назад

i have never been more thankful for a video before

@sophiehurtt3672 3 года назад

literally me rn LDNFKEB

@josephgibson3559 4 года назад

a little repetitive but I def enjoyed the visuals with the solid analysis

@yonorush 2 года назад

I agree but it is a short story and it will contain a large amount of messages in just one phrase

@subhashiniramachandran3443 4 года назад

It was a real help for my class. It had great visuals and wonderful content. Just a small request. Many of my students who watched it felt that it the narration was a bit fast. This is because English is not their native tongue. Your content is great and I would like to show more to my students. Kindly narrate slower. Thanks for your help!

@Someone-ig7we 4 года назад

There's a way to slow down the video yourself :) Click the gear at the bottom right, quick playback speed, then adjust it to your liking.

@alecastillo7381 3 года назад

do u know when the crime occurred ?

@alecastillo7381 2 года назад

@Ritsuka Fujimaru bruh

@majjamajai2701 2 года назад

These stories are more interesting than any suspense drama!!

@AlexGarcia-se6vm 2 года назад

This whole youtube channel is a lifesaver for my humanities class.

@Andres-sk4lx Год назад

Perfectly explained. You found a way to explain in a very interesting way, all the important things in the story. Even though it is a bit repetitive, I understood everything really well.

@3toYT 3 года назад

It makes so much more sense now! Thanks!

@mr.griever9909 3 года назад

Make more of these! I love to watch them😃

@Bluestar11jct4 3 года назад

thank you so much i did not understand this story even after reading it multiple times sooo thank you so much! i understand it now.

@angeline8342 2 года назад

Thank you! This helped me a lot and definitely made me enjoy and understand the story more. I also liked the way it was being explained although it is a bit repetitive.

@Amee1306 Год назад

explain the story very well, although repeated many times, it is enough to help newcomers understand what the video is saying, they make me understand what they are saying

@genesisishere5 2 года назад

You were my Course Hero today. Thank you

@zpzp96 3 года назад

This is helping me a lot with my fiction class :D Thanks !

@tysoucy4379 3 года назад

one of the questions my teacher gave me was asking if it is day time or dark, do you know what time of day it is in the story

@amandaroque5221 2 года назад

Thank you this was very helpful, it was a bit repetitive but in a way it helped me better understand the story. Thank you so much

@DuckyWP 4 года назад

The coat of arms for the Montresors is a snake biting a foot. The foot stepped on the snake and that is why the snake is biting the foot. Not the snake bit the foot and the foot stepped on the snake.

@williamg9977 4 года назад

Ducky I thought the same thing. The snake (The Montresors) is biting the foot as out of revenge for stepping on it.

@gentle2587 4 года назад

In other word They call him big hat logan because he wore a big hat

@gentle2587 4 года назад

Wow so deep

@DuckyWP 4 года назад

@@gentle2587 your the president so i guess what you say goes

@pareo8409 3 года назад

@@DuckyWP lol

@lucascastaneda9095 Год назад

Lucas Castañeda - Creative Writing- The origin of "The Cask of Amontillado" itself reflects one of the story's main themes, the desire for vengeance.

@miguelangeljaramillo7249 Год назад

Miguel Jaramillo Perez This video was a very nice and interesting way of explain this history. It was a little bit repetitive but very interesting at the same time. I like the way this history represents revenge, deceit, and murder.

@user-eq6ly8yh1w Год назад

Great video, but I just feel the need to mention that Julius Caesar is not a Roman emperor. His adopted son, Augustus, was the first emperor of Rome.

@animalfinatic9366 2 года назад

Thank you! Unfortunately some people fail to understand Montresor is a sociopath, instead they glamorize and idolize him....How shameful.

@joshrodriguez573 Год назад

A fact about The title “The Cask of Amontillado” is that it represents the themes of revenge, foolishness, and intense irony.

@tasneemabusnineh8414 4 года назад

Thank you ♥️

@saralopezmontoya6790 Год назад

A key factor in the hysteria is how Fortunato's death marks your mind, such an atypical way of dying, and makes you wonder if he deserved to die or just be forgiven.

@miffyluvbug 4 года назад

Thank you!!!!!

@sophiaannnn 5 месяцев назад

The exaggerated way of speaking really makes the information absorb in my brain better . Thankd

@eeeeee_____ 4 месяца назад

@rbbaking3530 4 года назад

Thank you Russell, very cool!

@wafaakhaled1403 3 года назад

Very useful content Thank you , i love u guys

@yanmengzeng8090 4 года назад

thanks teacher!

@luiscarlosparrado9491 Год назад

I really like the video!

@williamg9977 4 года назад

I always thought the Snake was the Montresor family in their coat of arms.

@marytraut3471 Год назад

It is.

@yutika_damini 4 месяца назад

Same

@sograe 2 года назад

you’re the only reason i passed my english class i swear

@zalakchheda4459 2 года назад

thankyou for this

@dysonpurdy2074 2 года назад

This man just did my English for me.

@dyjeman5565 3 года назад

Thank you🙏

@soninoscardelletti2844 Год назад

FANTASTIC ACCOUNT! GOD BLESS

@jl4w54 2 года назад

hell yeah dude I read this story like 6 times and didn't get half the info that I just did from this video.

@laurengrazes1373 3 года назад

I have a quiz on this story and the pit in the pendulum so I’m watching this

@kna07fbgtx 2 года назад

Where was this when I was in high school omg

@myboy_ 3 года назад

god this guy is such a goober

@nathangrossi9918 2 года назад

Tysm

@marytraut3471 Год назад

There are several inaccuracies here. EXAMPLE the coat of arms. The video states the foot is Montresor and the snake is Fortunato but it is more accurate to state the opposite. Fortunato (the foot) thinks he is hurting (insulting) Montresor (the snake), but little does the foot know, he will be bitten by Montresor, hence revenge. The foot stepping on the snake won't kill it, but the bite of the snake on the heel of the foot would provide a venomous bite. There are other inaccuracies here as well.

@mochixmelodii Год назад

like what

@yutika_damini 4 месяца назад

That makes sense 💯

@barracuda7018 2 года назад

Edgar A.Poe 'English vocabulary must be larger than any other novelist of the 19'h century

@UnemployedDoctor 3 года назад

Looks like I’m the only one who’s watching this for fun lol

@masonstrawn2658 3 года назад

Definitely

@guidrydale 3 года назад

No not quite. I’m revisiting this short story after 25 years.

@alborzghaderi7045 3 года назад

Hey Doc. Try to find some jobs instead of watching this torturous video. LOL

@lizzy-qo6xh 3 года назад

@@alborzghaderi7045 oop🌚

@fgarciz 3 года назад

I'm here due to a meme

@janarahhal1357 3 года назад

Ok I need someone to explain to me Fortunato and Montresor's miscommunication because I have a h.w due tomorrow😅

@jaruwand.5008 5 месяцев назад

One of the most difficult short stories to read/understand 😥

@juanpablonaviaadarve1532 Год назад

my point of view of this writing is one of the macabre of this author due to how that cruel murder is narrated to which revenge is also shown to its maximum.

@dimetronome 2 года назад

The audio reading of this story is about the same length as this summary.

@prioritythreat Год назад

Watching this during English

@Shine28 5 месяцев назад

Hey guys I think the family is obsessed with revenge based on the motto and coat of arms

@MelissaHurley1994 3 года назад

I have to write a whole ass paragraph about monstresor of his motive and critiea for revenge. Like up to 8 sentences nothing less than 6 sentences maybe. And I'm struggling.

@St4rgir1_5.0 3 года назад

this is definitely too late, but for future references, you can just go to the three lines under the video and press transcript and then you can copy what the video is saying.

@littletimmy7746 3 года назад

@@St4rgir1_5.0 thats plagiarism, and also its got like a million grammer mistakes in it

@davidblaske6911 Год назад

Which is exactly how it's written. Could have fooled me.

@michaelnoonan352 2 года назад

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.

@ekdf8332 3 года назад

@Psalm1968 2 месяца назад

6:20 - Christianity does not teach “reincarnation.” And I think as another the family crest holds a deeper symbolism than the host realizes. It’s probably a representation of the Edenic prophecy of Genesis 3, “You shall bruise its head but it shall bruise Your heel.” This pertains to the Son of Man crushing the head of the serpent but the serpent biting the heel of the Son of Man. In Christian theology this is speaking of Christ on the cross defeating death & the great serpent-adversary of mankind. Having taught Poe’s story myself I am confident Poe is either making a slight against God for what appears to Poe as an unpleasant aspect of God enacting His “vengeance” upon those who have offended Him and/or Poe is tacitly suggesting that Montressor and Fortunado are representing mankind apart from God’s forgiveness. We are all like these fools. Wine here, instead of representing Jesus’s blood shed for the forgiveness of sin, is the vengeful vintage foolishly imbibed for the purpose of drunkenness - wine is a “mocker” (see Proverbs 20:1), a fool. So how will you have your wine? As a “fool” that leads to vengeance and death (Fortunado does not come out of his tomb), or will you have the wine of forgiveness and life Jesus offers as His blood, shed for the forgiveness of sin? Poe to say the least was conflicted on this point.

@williamg9977 4 года назад

Lisp

@treason5045 2 года назад

I'm glad for your explanation, but you sound too overenthusiastic and also a bit repetitive, but I guess it's fine since it gets the job done.

@Mebimuffo Год назад

His fake enthusiasm was unbearable. I couldn't finish the video. Way too much "in your face". Chill man.

@JoeSmith-xl8um Год назад

how many times can you repeat the same phrases? why do you have to talk like you are explaining this to 5 year olds? the tone is very off putting, it feels like I am watching the wiggles or something, grating voice and bizarre facial expressions very uncomfortable to watch no offence