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“ The Cask of Amontillado “

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ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORY

A SORT STORY OF THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

TITLE                 :  The Cask of Amontillado

AUTHOR            :  Edgar Allan Poe

PRINTING          :  1846

THICKNESS       :  6 pages

SYNOPSIS          : .....

.           It is dusk on a day during the annual carnival celebration in an Italian city. People are eating, drinking, and making merry before the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season.
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But one of the city’s residents, Montresor, is not at all merry. Some time ago, a man named Fortunato–a wine connoisseur–wronged Montresor. In fact, according to Montresor, who is the narrator of the story, Fortunato had committed numerous offenses against him–the last one an intolerable insult. Montresor now plans revenge against Fortunato. A man can stand only so much. 
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When he encounters Fortunato on the street, Montresor does not let on that he is angry or means harm to Fortunato, who, in keeping with the carnival festivities, is tipsy. Fortunato is wearing a court jester’s motley outfit and a cone-shaped hat topped with a bell that sometimes rings when he moves his head. After Montresor greets Fortunato and shakes his hand, he tells Fortunato that he recently came into possession of a pipe (126 gallons) of Amontillado, a prized amber dry wine from Spain. However, Montresor says, he is not sure whether the wine is the genuine article. Proud Fortunato, eager to demonstrate his knowledge of wine, immediately agrees to take up the challenge of determining whether the Amontillado is the real thing.
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After they arrive at Montresor’s palazzo (a sumptuous private residence), they descend into the cold, damp vaults where the wine is kept. The vaults are part of a network of catacombs containing the bones of long-dead members of the Montresor family. Several times, Montresor pretends to be concerned about the health of Fortunato, who has a cough, and suggests that they turn back. But Fortunato says, “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me.”
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“True–true,” Montresor answers without outward show of the inner glee he must have been feeling.
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Montresor takes a bottle of Médoc from a shelf, opens it, and gives Fortunato a quaff against the cold. He toasts Fortunato, saying, “To your long life.”  Moments later, Montresor presents Fortunato a flagon of De Grâve (an interesting name for a deadly occasion). Fortunato empties it. His mind now swims in groggy joy. 
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When they arrive at a wall at the end of their subterranean journey, Montresor quickly claps his drunken companion in chains attached to iron staples in the wall, then turns the key of a padlock attached to the chains. “The Amontillado!” Fortunato says, failing tocomprehend his predicament.
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With stone and mortar that had been ensconced nearby, Montresor walls up Fortunato. There are screams from the niche, then laughter. Fortunato thinks he is the victim of a joke. Montresor continues to work on the vertical tomb. When he completes his task, he hears the jingling of bells on Fortunato's cap. Then Montresor erects a rampart of bones against the wall.
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Fifty years pass. 

Fortunato remains behind the wall, resting in eternal peace.

conclusion of synopsis according to me that is :

mentresor owning grudge with fortunate because fortunato have conducted insult which cannot be forgiven. mentresor its vengeance at the time of performing a of carnival that is before prapaskah be its action unknown people, he invite fortunato using clothes clawn and have hat [to] having bell to its house to try grape;wine which he have what is original amontillado, because fortunato is out of job drunkard expert is he do not refuse again invitation of mentresor. moment until at home mentresor, he invited down to the stairs land;ground where the decanter kept. underground room there are a lot of bones and because the place chilled then mentresor give beverage [so that/ to be] can heat body of fortunato, but after reaching mentresor amontillado cask the run obsolence intention and bury lifes of fortunato, and fortunato even also die.

INTRINSIK ELEMENTS

THE TITLE           :  The Cask of Amontillado

THEMES              : 

Revenge 

Fortunato had committed many offenses against Montresor, the last one an insult, according to Montresor.

Deception

To lure Fortunato into the catacombs, Montresor deceives Fortunato, telling him he wants to taste some wine to determine whether it is genuine Amontillado.

TYPE                    :  Tragedy ( Short story in the horror gendre )

CHARACTER      :

1. .Montresor, a deranged man who seeks revenge.

2. Fortunato, a haughty wine connoisseur against whom Montresor  seeks  revenge.

3.  Luchesi 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.

THE PLOT               :  The plot in this novel is forward

POINT OF VIEW    :  First-Person Unreliable. Montresor tells the story in the first person,                                   meaning he uses pronouns such as I, me, my, and so on.

SETTING                :  It is early evening in an Italian city during a carnival immediately      preceding Lent. 

MESSAGE             :  don't all of you affront someone because this matter will make others ill will.

EXTRINSIK EELEMNT

Author Information

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. After being orphaned at age two, he was taken into the home of a childless couple–John Allan, a successful businessman in Richmond, Va., and his wife. Allan was believed to be Poe’s godfather. At age six, Poe went to England with the Allans and was enrolled in schools there. After he returned with the Allans to the U.S. in 1820, he studied at private schools, then attended the University of Virginia and the U.S. Military Academy, but did not complete studies at either school. After beginning his literary career as a poet and prose writer, he married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm. He worked for several magazines and joined the staff of the New York Mirror newspaper in 1844. All the while, he was battling a drinking problem. After the Mirror published his poem “The Raven” in January 1845, Poe achieved national and international fame. Besides pioneering the development of the short story, Poe invented the format for the detective story as we know it today. He also was an outstanding literary critic. Despite the acclaim he received, he was never really happy because of his drinking and because of the deaths of several people close to him, including his wife in 1847. He frequently had trouble paying his debts. It is believed that heavy drinking was a contributing cause of his death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. 

reason of writer make this short story : of possibility he narrate his self which like to drink wine. and tragedy befalling its life is he decant into interesting fiction articles and with touch of genre horor be story tend to reader.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cummings, Michael. 2005. The Cask of Amontillado. America : Classic American fiction.

            http: //www. Classic American 2005.

Howard, Melissa. 1999. The Cask of Amontillado. London : Balance publishing.

http://www.shmoop.com /cask-of-amontillado/summary.html.                 

                              

Buranelli, Vincent. 1989. Sort Story The Cask of Amontillado. Eropa : Europe fictions.

http://www.Edgar Allan Poe.