The cask of amontillado

The Cask of Amontilladoby: Edgar Allan Poe

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Nikkie C. Cariaga

IV-B BSMT (IV-BSPT)Submitted to:

Dr. Heidi Barcelo-Macahilig

Romanticism and Realism

The short story of Edgar Allan Poe entitled “The Cast

of Amontillado” was created under the age of

romanticism and realism period.

Romanticism

"Romanticism" is a period, movement, or style in literature, music,

and other arts starting in the late 1700s and flourishing in the

early 1800s, a time when the modern mass culture in which we now

live was first taking form.

Romanticism

The rise of nation-states as defining social and geographic entities,

increasing geographic and social mobility, people moving to cities,

new technologies including power from fossil fuels, individualism,

imaginative idealization of childhood, families, love, nature, and the

past.

Romanticism

The Romantic era is the historical period of literature in which

modern readers most begin to see themselves and their own conflicts

and desires.

Romanticism

The Romantic period has passed, but its styles and values still thrive

today in popular forms and familiar attitudes. Most popular films

are romance narratives with simple Romantic characters operating by

codes of chivalry and honor.

Romanticism

Historically, the Romantic era is sometimes called "The Age of

Revolution" from the French Revolution (1789-99) and the

American Revolution (1775-83), the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804),

and subsequent revolutions in Europe and Latin America, including

the War for Mexican Independence 1811-21.

Romanticism

The Romantic "Age of Revolution" may also refer to . . .

• liberating changes in the arts

• profound social and cultural changes that radically

transformed everyday life

Romanticism

A simple, memorable way to imagine the Romantic era: an age

of "heroic individuals" whose styles and subjects symbolized the

power of the human will or spirit in shaping history and art.

Romanticism

Titanic Figures of the Romantic Era

Romanticism

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800)

by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Romanticism

Portrait (1820) of the Romantic

composer

Beethoven (1770-1827)

by J. K. Stieler

Romanticism

Lord Byron in Albanian Dress (1813)

by Thomas Phillips

Byron (1788-1824), prototype for

Romantic Byronic Hero

died near Albania while working for

Greek Independence from Turkey

Romanticism

Mary Shelley (1797-1851),

author of Frankenstein (1818)

portrait by Reginald Easton, 1857

Romanticism

For literature and the arts, "Romantic" has a broader meaning that

does not necessarily conflict with popular usage, but the literary or

historical meaning is more extensive and adaptable.

Romanticism

This larger meaning (NOT LIMITED TO LOVE) is still perceptible

in another usage or implication of Romanticism when it is compared

or contrasted with Realism.

Romanticism

Romanticism as literary, artistic,

or personal style

Romanticism

Romanticism is a big, baggy concept involving many diverse, even

contradictory elements, gestures, and meanings, much like modern

life:

Romanticism

• individualism: the worth, value, and potential of the inner self (essential to

democratic equality)

• sentimental love of nature, the natural world beyond the city, industry, modern

transportation, and human society (cf. Club Med as "romantic getaway")

• exaltation of common people, possibility of higher purposes for all people

• common feelings or sentiments can be valued and refined as presence of divine or

more-than-human

• feeling or emotion more important than logic or experience ("Anything you want

you can have if you only want it enough.")

Romanticism

• imagination (or what is possible or imaginable) over reason, logic, or the hard

facts of experience; compare "fancy" and "fantasy"

• quest for something greater: desire and loss + romance narrative

• nostalgia

• utopian thought (desire for a perfect community)

• escapism: disdain for human society beyond the sentimental range of the

individual and family, though sometimes the nation or a people is romanticized.

Romanticism

Romanticism as cultural history

Romanticism

Historical, trans-cultural, international movement, value system in

literature and arts, response to massive social changes in Europe and

USA in late 1700s > 1800s.

Romanticism

Biggest changes: Material and hygienic changes brought about by the

Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

• Growing population, longer lives, less infant mortality, especially in cities;

• Industrial Revolution begins: work routines change; mass production of

consumer goods

• democratic politics, rise of common people to power: Andrew Jackson,

Abraham Lincoln

• With improved standards of living, common people find more opportunities,

including education, migration

Romanticism

Romanticism in historical context

Romanticism

Literature (with other arts) has at least three theoretical relationships with

human history:

1. Literature records or reflects the actual society or world.

2. Literature directs, guides, leads, or stimulates historical change or reaction.

3. There is no history separate from what we write, or if there is, we can't

imagine it.

Romanticism and Realism

category of comparison Romanticism Realism

historical period & political economics:

1820-60; "Era of the Common Man"; Abolition;

early women's movement

1865-1910; Industrialization, Urbanization, Gilded Age;

Reconstruction and Reaction

human form: heroic individualism social relations

human motivation:

honor, love, ideals

survival of fittest; greed, lust, confusion

setting:

sublime frontier or gothic past

growing cities; social class limits

literary styles:

elevated language

dirty details

Romanticism

Goethe in the Roman Countryside (1786)

by J.H.W. Tischbein

primal figure of European Romanticism

Romanticism

Major Writers of the

Romanticism

Romanticism

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

• Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

• Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)

• Shelley, Mary (1797-1851)

• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

• Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

• Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

• Blake, William (1757-1827)

• Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Keats, John (1795-1821)

• Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)

• Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-

1882)

• Irving, Washington (1783-1859)

• Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

Romanticism

Some of the WRITERS

Romanticism-writer

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864

Romanticism-writer

Born: July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Died: May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States

Full name: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Education: Bowdoin College

Spouse: Sophia Hawthorne (m. 1842–1864)

Romanticism-writer

WALT WHITMAN

Romanticism-writer

Born: May 31, 1819, West Hills, New York, United States

Died: March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey, United States

Buried: March 30, 1892, Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey, United States

Siblings: Andrew Jackson Whitman, Jesse Whitman and more

Parents: Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, Walter Whitman, Sr.

Romanticism-writer

Mary Shelley

1797–1851

Romanticism-writer

NAME

• Mary Shelley

OCCUPATION

• Author

BIRTH DATE

• August 30, 1797

DEATH DATE

• February 1, 1851

PLACE OF BIRTH

• London, England, United Kingdom

PLACE OF DEATH

• London, England, United Kingdom

AKA

• Mary Shelley

FULL NAME

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ORIGINALLY

• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Romanticism-writer

Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849

Romanticism-writer

NAME

• Edgar Allan Poe

OCCUPATION

• Writer

BIRTH DATE

• January 19, 1809

DEATH DATE

• October 7, 1849

EDUCATION

• University of Virginia, U.S.

Military Academy at West Point

PLACE OF BIRTH

• Boston, Massachusetts

PLACE OF DEATH

• Baltimore, Maryland

Romanticism

Poe’s works

Poe’s works

"The Angel of the Odd" (1844) Comedy about being drunk

"The Balloon Hoax“ (1844) Newspaper story about balloon travel

"Berenice" (1835) Horror story about teeth

"The Black Cat" (1845) Horror story about a cat

"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) A story of revenge

"A Descent Into The Maelström" (1845) Man vs. Nature, Adventure Story

"Eleonora" (1850) A love story

Poe’s works

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) Talking with a dead man

"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) An old house and its secrets

"The Gold Bug“ (1843) A search for pirate treasure

"Hop-Frog" (1845) A midget seeks revenge

"The Imp of the Perverse" (1850) Procrastination and confession

"The Island of the Fay" (1850) A poetic discussion

"Ligeia" (1838) A haunting supernatural tale

Berenice

"Berenice" is a short horror story by

Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the

Southern Literary Messenger in 1835.

The story follows a man named Egaeus

who is preparing to marry his cousin

Berenice

Published: March 1835

Genres: Short story, Horror

The Gold-Bug

"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by

Edgar Allan Poe. Set on Sullivan's

Island, South Carolina, the plot follows

William Legrand, who was recently

bitten by a gold-colored bug.

Published: 1843

Adaptations: Manfish (1956)

The Tell-Tale Heart

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story

by Edgar Allan Poe first published in

1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator

who endeavors to convince the reader

of his sanity, while describing a murder

he committed.

Published: January 1843

Original language: English

Adaptations: Tell-Tale (2009),

The Cask of Amontillado


"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story

by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the

November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's

Book.

Published: November 1846

Original language: English

Genres: Short story, Horror

Adaptations: The Tell-Tale Heart by

Taletube.com (2008), more.


Amontilladoamon·til·la·do

Amontillado is a variety of Sherry wine

characterized by being darker than Fino

but lighter than Oloroso.


Setting

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting

An underground catacomb,

somewhere in Italy, during the

carnival season.

Caska large barrel like container made of

wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing

liquids, typically alcoholic drinks

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting

The setting in “The Cask,” and in most Horror or Gothic Fiction,

has a special purpose: to suggest freedom or confinement, in

harmony or opposition to the freedom or confinement of the

characters. This is called the “Gothic Interior.” Most people go back

and forth between feeling free and feeling trapped. The Gothic

Interior is meant to make us hyperaware of these emotions through

careful attention to the setting.

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting

The carnival season and the Montresor family catacomb are

a bit more direct. The carnival is a literal celebration of

freedom, which both Montresor and Fortunato are

participating in at the beginning of the story.

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting

As they journey through the catacomb, Montresor and

Fortunato move into smaller and smaller − and fouler and

fouler − spaces. This suggesting that, as they travel farther

away from fresh air, they are also moving further away from

freedom.

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting

Fortunato is eventually trapped in a space that represents the opposite of

freedom: he’s chained up and bricked inside a man-sized crypt with no air and

no way out. You can certainly argue that Montresor presents a contrast to

Fortunato’s fate in that he finds freedom at the end of the story: he is alive.

Montresor is free to do as he wishes. Ironically, what he wishes to do is tell this

story. Which means that the story has him trapped. He can’t forget it, and he has

to talk about it. In his mind, he’s still down there in the hole with Fortunato.

The Cask of

Amontillado-Setting


Characters

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Character

MontresorThe narrator, Montresor, murders

Fortunato for insulting him by walling

him up alive behind bricks in a wine

cellar.

FortunatoA wine expert murdered by Montresor.

Dressed as a court jester, Fortunato falls

prey to Montresor’s scheme at a

particularly carefree moment during a

carnival.


Character

LuchesiLuchesi isn’t really a character. He’s more of a plot device. He helps drive the

action. Luchesi is Fortunato’s rival in wine tasting.


Character

The Montresor FamilyWhen Fortunato comments on how big the catacombs are, Montresor implies

that all the bodies in the place are dead members of the Montresor family.

There seem to be quite a lot of them.


Character


Plot


Plot

An insult, and a vow of revenge

Fortunato and Montresor have a history, and a painful one at that.

Fortunato has wounded Montresor a “thousand” times. Montresor

never complains. But one day, Fortunato goes too far: he insults

Montresor, and Montresor vows revenge.

Initial Situation

How to make things right – forever

For Montresor to revenge himself for Fortunato’s insult, he has to get

away with it – if Fortunato can revenge him back, then Montresor has

lost. The punishment must be permanent − Fortunato has to feel it, and

he has to know it’s coming from Montresor.

Conflict


Plot

It’s almost too easy…

There really isn’t much complication. After a few carefully dropped hints from

Montresor (think “Amontillado” and “Luchesi”), Fortunato insists on following

Montresor down into the underground graveyard of your worst nightmares.

Montresor baits him and plays with him, but Fortunato never considers turning

back until it’s way too late.

Complication


Plot

Trapped in a conveniently man-sized space!

Montresor brings up Luchesi, Fortunato calls Luchesi an “ignoramus,”

and boom! He’s chained inside an upright casket in the foulest depths

of the catacomb! That’s the story’s big, explosive moment.

Climax


Plot

Brick by brick by brick…

Montresor is building a wall of suspense, especially if you are

Fortunato. Fortunato’s watching himself being bricked in, waiting,

breathlessly to see if this is some kind of really creepy carnival joke.

Suspense


Plot

The final brick

After Montresor puts in the final brick, the suspense is dissolved. He’s

heard the pitiful jingle of Fortunato’s bells, and it means nothing to

him. As soon as the air is used up in the tiny brick casket, Fortunato

will be dead.

Denouement


Plot

Looking back

It’s impossible to know how old Montresor is when he kills Fortunato, but in the

second to the last line of the story, we learn that the murder happened fifty years ago.

So Montresor is probably pushing eighty when he’s telling the story. And he could be

far more ancient. More importantly, this conclusion lets us know that Montresor has

gotten away with his crime so far. His vengeance has been a success, and he wants us to

know it.

Conclusion


Plot

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