The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe - Thug Notes Summary & Analysis 

That's also how you murder people and get away with it just saying

hand nowadays months don't cut it. Gotta wait longer thanks to the archival value of the internet

We don't even know if they fought. He may have simply taken offense to an off handed comment from Fortunado.

@@GippyHappy right we actually don’t know why there is beef .

deadass i bet his ass was so happy after he jumped on him

Yes he did kill him but Montresor change fortunato's bikes for the wall and then after that he started building a wall which caved him in forever. Fortunato was caved in by Montresor.

Ooooh foreshadowing...

Fortunato was a fool! Who carries a trowel around? That's just one example of signs Fortunato missed!

The trowel is symbolic of death to freemasons

@@grimmontha8023 😂❣😶‍🌫

YES TRUE

I laughed my butt off when I got to that part

My favorite part was when he keeps on bringing up Luccressi just to piss him off ( idk if I spelt luchressi right)

Unrelated, but at 3:05 - what does tho'd mean? (The video has captions/subtitles) 3:45 - Jonesin' is craving/thirsting.

Cole McKinney yo dog it’s been two years but this shit still funny

@@coszs8425 hell yeah

I spat out my coke. Underrated comment

Oof

AmontilladOWNED.

Montressor is a very smart killer

Great observation! It also brings significance to Montresor's trowel, too.

Teachers that really encourage students are the best.

My personal favorite is the Tell-tale Heart for the closer inspection of an insane mind. Although I will admit, Amontillado follows Poe's idea of totality in a story much better.

That's weird. I read it as part of my junior high English class.

Chris McWilliams Odd. My education didn't expose us to Poe until high school.

***** Weird.

Thank you!!!! And we love BACON! :-D

+Wisecrack can you guys do bioshock novel please

The Holy Bacon me too

Same... been watching non stop the last 3 days... where have I been to barely find out about thug notes

Poe's darkest stories were free of the overtly supernatural ('Metzengerstein' involves reincarnation). Only in his humor pieces (Toby Dammit, Out of Breath to name a couple) do people deal with the Devil. If Montresor heard bells, there would be a rat in the alcove and he'd be confessing out of guilt.

I think then it'd be too similar to The Tell-Tale Heart(or vice versa, whichever came first) because the ending of that story has the murderer hear the beating of the old man(the person he killed)'s heart when the police come in to investigate.

Nah. Sherlock Holmes discovers the truth and Montressor ends up brought to justice.

I think the point is that Fortunato was someone who was written to be unluck in this story or that his luck has run out so him coming back from the dead would ruin the irony of the killing.

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He wasn’t very fortunate this time…

Yet we don't know what any of them were. Was Fortunato oblivious to his own cruelty? Was he an inveterate prankster who went too far one day? Did Montresor have a thin skin and easily-bruised ego? Or did he have good reason for wanting revenge?

@@julietfischer5056 montresor mocked fortunando's pleas right to his face. Either fortunando was a huge dick or montresor is crazy.

@@julietfischer5056 Montresor in my opinion was hating on Fortunato 😆 !

Thanks so much for the support!

Wisecrack edition is still de best !

+Wisecrack I can't wait to see another one of these great Thug notes.

Or the Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I read that book and lov'd it, I wonder what Sparky here has to say about it!

I was happy that Sparky covered At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft was monstrously racist. But I guess that doesn't really matter when you look at the work by itself.

+Aj Koorstra Names, descriptions of characters, letters and so on.

+Aj Koorstra Shadow over innsmouth is about race mixing, and Reanimator has a super racist description of an African American Boxer.

The Rats in the Walls.

how is it portrayed ?

yup i remember mandy would always tie billy in a closet and brick it up and billy didnt know what or care what was hapening

what ep was that? i think i missed it... i have however seen the simpsons do it

I dont remember it was a while ago, I just watched cartoons for fun never seeked out episodes or anything but you could prob fidn it on youtube

One of the 'Treehouse of Horror' episodes had this parodied near the end.

+slendy9600 i'm not sure about the episode number, but in it, Billy's family was forced to live with Mandy's family on account of one of their houses being destroyed. Billy and Mandy share a room, completely don't get along, and split it in half. Billy does something stupid, and Mandy gets revenge on him by ceiling him up. They even ended the episode in the same way that Poe ended the story - Billy's eyes peek through the final brick in the wall as Mandy seals it lol

*shinning. Haven't you seen the Simpsons?

Me too. I still don't get why pennywise referenced it

@@poisonpotato1 Fortunato dressed as a Jester(joker) was sealed in a wall, Pennywise is sealing (ending) the rap battle

Respeck the name

I'll throw some respeck on it. Are we finished or are we done?

Yup, it's a common mistake.

the troglodytes

Fixed. Thanks, Cazé

Probably one of my all time favorite books

Now I can't stop imagining VM Smith as Cyrus in The Warriors. "Can you grok it? Can you *grok* it? Caaaan youuuu groooook iiiiiit!"

To grok or not to grok - that is the grok: Whether 'tis nobler in the grok, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous grok, Or to take arms against a grok of troubles, And, by opposing, grok them. To die, to grok - No more - and by a grok to say we grok The heartache and the thousand natural groks That flesh is grok to - 'tis a grok. Devoutly to be groked. To grok, to grok no more - To grok, perchance to dream. Aye, there's the grok, For in that grok of death what groks may grok, When we have groked off this mortal grok, Must give us grok. There's the grok That makes calamity of so long grok. For who would grok the whips and scorns of grok, Th' grok's wrong, the proud grok's contumely, The pangs of despised grok, the grok's delay, The insolence of grok, and the spurns That patient grok of the ungroky takes, When grok grokself might his grok make With a bare grokin? Who would fardels grok, To grunt and sweat under a weary grok, But that the grok of something after grok, The ungroked country from whose bourn No grok returns, puzzles the grok And makes us rather to bear those groks we grok Than fly to others that we grok not of? Thus conscience does grok groks of us all. And thus the native grok of resolution Is groked o'er with the pale cast of grok, And enterprises pf great grok and grok, With this regard their groks turn awry, And grok the name of grok. -Soft you now, The fair Grok. -Grok, in thy orisons Be all my groks groked. Well, did I grok it? You be the grok.

***** Great movie, great video game adaptation, great comic adaptation, great comic sequel, and last but not least, Sol Yurick's fantastic original novel that all the previous media could not exist without. It's not action-packed, or stylized, but it is more literary and super comfy in its own right.

***** Anytime, mate.

I have read it. Man, one of the most brutal book about war I have ever read. I would love for its analysis.

I asked for this month's ago. I read it while in Afghanistan. Do it for the troops, Sparky!

Best piece of literature on the Vietnam War I have ever read.

Classic. "Best of all possible worlds", where people get raped, commit voluntary adultery and indiscriminately end up with syphilis

they did

Already did.

Yes!

YESSSSSS

my favorite Edgar Allan Poe short story is Hopfrog. THAT'S a good revenge story.

+Angie Bee mine is El Dorado I don't know why but it's like it's something that speaks to me

My favorite Poe story is "The Masque of the Red Death", but I'll always love "The Tell-Tale Heart" because it was the first Poe story I ever heard. My 4th grade teacher had it on a Halloween cassette tape that had all kinds of spooky songs and stories. Needless to say, since I was nine, it scared the crap out of me and I've loved Poe ever since. :)

Mah nigga. Cask never did anything for me, but _The Tell-Tale Heart_ has this insanely tense atmosphere and godly pacing.

Tell tale is my favorite but this might tie

No. All he says is that he was insulted by fortunato, he never says what specifically offended him. That's a big part of the story, because it could be something really small, but we'll never know.

I doubt it.

I don't think so, they shared some other kind of wine while they were walking up to the "amotillado"

Javier Sebastián Della Mea oh shit well i haven't read it since i was in the 7th grade