The Cask of Amontillado
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- The Cask of AmontilladoBy Izzy Estes
- Exposition
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- The characters, Fortunato and the narrator, Montresor, are introduced at a festival. Montresor describes his "friend" to the reader, and explains what great pain Fortunato has caused him. Then, he explains how he plans to punish him for his actions as he invites Fortunato to his cellar to help him inspect an allegedpipe of Amontillado.
- Climax
- Montresor leads Fortunato down into the catacombs, explaining to him about how the walls are "encrusted with nitre" as they go. As they continue along into the chambers, Fortunato starts to develop a cough due to how cold and damp it is. Montresor offers to head back, however, he refuses. Montresor continues to subtly warn Fortunato, but his, somewhat already, intoxicated friend doesn't catch on.
- Falling Action
- he! he! - a very good joke indeed - an excellent jest..
- As Montresor and Fortunato grow nearer to the Amontillado, Montresor gives Fortunato several bottles of wine. After drinking almost two bottles, Fortunato becomes, clearly, intoxicated; to which he starts to jest. Montresor takes his gesture as a time to, once again, subtly warn him of his upcoming fate, by showing him the trowel he plans to use to help trap him with. Montresor then offers to take him back once more, to which Fortunato refuses again. They continue forth to the chamber.
- Resolution
- Once they reach the chamber, Fortunato enters in hopes of finding the cask of Amontillado he was promised. However, instead of finding the cask, he gets chained up to the wall by Montresor. Montresor then begins to explain to him that he was given several times to leave, and now that they were at the maximum of the nitre, Montresor would then leave him here and head back on his own.
- After a while of Montresor building his wall in silence, with the occassional moan from his imprisoned friend, Fortunato speaks up. He begins to almost plead with Montresor, commenting about how funny this joke of his was, and how they would laugh about this after he gets out. Montresor continues to build the wall.
- Montresor finishes the wall, with Fortunato ceasing to make noise. The reader is left to assume that there was no Amontillado and that Fortunato dies, either from the nitre or from another cause. I really enjoyed the characters and the plot, however, the ending didn't surprise me since I had already known how it ended before reading it in class.
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