a short story by Edgar Allan Poe..

1. The Cask of Amontillado
by: Edgar Allan Poe
Submitted by:
Nikkie C. Cariaga
IV-B BSMT (IV-BSPT)
Submitted to:
Dr. Heidi Barcelo-Macahilig

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Romanticism
Titanic Figures of the Romantic Era

11. Romanticism
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800)
by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

12. Romanticism
Portrait (1820) of the Romantic
composer
Beethoven (1770-1827)
by J. K. Stieler

13. 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

14. Romanticism
Mary Shelley (1797-1851),
author of Frankenstein (1818)
portrait by Reginald Easton, 1857

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Romanticism
Romanticism as literary, artistic,
or personal style

18. Romanticism
Romanticism is a big, baggy concept involving many diverse, even
contradictory elements, gestures, and meanings, much like modern
life:

19. 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.")

20. 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.

21. Romanticism
Romanticism as cultural history

22. 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.

23. 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

24. Romanticism
Romanticism in historical context

25. 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.

26. 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

27. Romanticism
Goethe in the Roman
Countryside (1786)
by J.H.W. Tischbein
primal figure of European Romanticism

28. Romanticism
Major Writers of the
Romanticism

29. 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)

30. Romanticism
Some of the WRITERS

31. Romanticism-writer
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864

32. 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)

33. Romanticism-writer
WALT WHITMAN

34. 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.

35. Romanticism-writer
Mary Shelley
1797–1851

36. 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

37. Romanticism-writer
Edgar Allan Poe
1809–1849

38. 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

39. Romanticism
Poe’s works

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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)

44. 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),

45. The Cask of Amontillado

46. 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.

47. The Cask of Amontillado
Amontillado
amon·til·la·do
Amontillado is a variety of Sherry wine
characterized by being darker than Fino
but lighter than Oloroso.

48. The Cask of Amontillado
Setting

49. The Cask of
Amontillado-Setting
An underground catacomb,
somewhere in Italy, during the
carnival season.

50. Cask
a large barrel like container made of
wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing
liquids, typically alcoholic drinks
The Cask of
Amontillado-Setting

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. The Cask of Amontillado
Characters

56. The Cask of Amontillado-
Character
Montresor
The narrator, Montresor, murders
Fortunato for insulting him by walling
him up alive behind bricks in a wine
cellar.

57. Fortunato
A 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.
The Cask of Amontillado-
Character

58. Luchesi
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 Cask of Amontillado-
Character

59. The Montresor Family
When 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.
The Cask of Amontillado-
Character

60. The Cask of Amontillado
Plot

61. The Cask of Amontillado-
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

62. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

63. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

64. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

65. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

66. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

67. 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
The Cask of Amontillado-
Plot

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70. The End…
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