WRITE DIRECTLY into the template given below no need for putting it into mla format. And use the other linked file for ideas and examples.
Analyze The Cask of Amontillado as follow:
– Topic Sentence – 1 sentence
– plot element (narrative) – 4-6 sentences
– Conflict – Person versus Person and Person versus self – 8 sentences
– Setting – 6 sentences
– Imagery – 6 sentences (use as many senses that create pictures as you can)
– Symbols – 6 sentences
– Conclusion – 1 or 2 sentences
Below is the topic sentence you should use and the quotes in your paragraph. Explain what they mean in relationship to your topic sentence. Be sure and use both quotes in Images and Symbols and how they relate to the topic sentence and the story.
The Literary Analysis Paragraph
Topic Sentence – Bullying often results in dire consequences, thus in the case of Fortunato, disrespecting and belittling his associate Montresor did not have the desired outcome.
Plot Element – “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”
Conflict (human versus human) – “At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled – but the very definiteness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”
Setting – “We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.”
Images –
“I drink,” he said, “to the buried that repose around us.” (Taste)
“We passed through a range of low arches, descended passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.” (Smell)
Symbols –
“A huge human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a servant rampant whose fangs are imbedded in a heel.” (Coat-of-Arms)
“It is this, I answered, producing a trowel from beneath the folds of my roquelaire.”
“The Amontillado!” ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment.”
Use this for your source https://poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado/
Use one of these three:
The Cask of Amontillado
In Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortunado’s conceit and boastfulness leads him down a path of destruction.
Bullying often results in dire consequences, thus in the case of Fortunado, disrespecting and belittling his associate Montressor did not have the desired outcome.
Revenge can ultimately lead to the degradation of one’s soul.
