The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe

• Genre: Horror Short Story

• First published in Godey’s Lady’s Book in
November 1846.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQ2fcqe5
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 ELEMENTS OF SHORT STORY
• Setting.
• Characters.
• Plot.
• Point of View.
• Theme.
 SETTING
• New Orleans (1849)

• Carnaval

• 50 years ago
CHARACTERS
MONTRESOR
• He is a complex and intriguing character
whose thirst for revenge drives the story.
His family motto is Nemo me impune
lacessit, which means “no one insults me
with impunity,” which is his drive to
murder his friend.
CHARACTERS
FORTUNATO
• Montressor’s friend and his victim.
• He tooks pride in his wine in connoisseur.
 PLOT
EXPOSITION

• When Montresor gives us the readers

the information that another man has
been insulting him in some many ways.
 PLOT
RISING ACTION
Tricking Fortunato with the wine so he
could express his wisdom and expertise”
in that matter. And involving him with that
topic while Montresor introduce him into
de catacombs where his nightmare begin.
 PLOT
CLIMAX

• When Fortunato is being trapped to be

chained by Montresor and he doesn’t
even know.
 PLOT
FALLING ACTION
• When Montresor builds the brick wall
meanwhile he hears Fortunato
screaming and whining, but that
doesn’t stop him to keep building up the
brick wall.
 PLOT
DENOUEMENT
• When Montresor talks about the
undiscoverable crime that he
committed 50 years early and got away
with it unpunished.
POINT OF VIEW

THEME
GROUP ACTIVITY
ASSIGNMENT
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“The Cask of Amontilado”
Pages: 211-218