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7 Critical Thinking Questions for The Cask of Amontillado

May 24, 2021

Are you looking for Critical Thinking Questions for The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe ? If you are a middle or high school teacher, you probably are!  This classic piece of American Literature was the first Poe short story I ever taught to my ninth-grade English students. It tells the tale of a man, Montresor, bent on revenge. We don’t know why he wants revenge specifically, yet we most eagerly join him on his journey to achieve vengeance against a man named Fortunato.

Because of the twisted plot and ironic resolution, students will love this story! There are so many ways you can approach this story. You can focus on citing evidence, theme, characterization, word analysis, irony, structure, literary analysis writing, etc. It really is up to you! Below are 7 questions you can ask your students as you read this fun, albeit morbidly, fascinating tale!

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TEACHING CENTRAL IDEA QUESTIONS FOR THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

If you are teaching the Common Core standards (or general state standards) let’s check out what the central idea standard requires when asking questions for The Cask of Amontillado:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

• Determine a theme OR central idea
• Analyze how the theme/central idea develops throughout the text
• Examine how details shape and refine the theme/central idea
• Provide a summary of the text

After reading the text and standard, you will want to use the central idea and/ or main idea questions for The Cask of Amontillado!

1. What is a summary of this short story?

Now, this question seems simple, but you can teach this standard in so many ways! You could focus on the beginning, middle, or end, a specific chunk, or the entire story?

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2.  What is the central idea of the short story?

This question might seem almost too easy for your students; however, most struggle to capture what the short story is truly about. Or they confuse it with theme (the message of a text).

TIP: Make sure to encourage your students to always cite evidence! Without evidence, the foundation for our response simply breaks down.

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3. Which theme could be true based on the short story?

Check out these 6 possible themes from “The Cask of Amontillado” that may or may NOT be true!

• Outside appearances do not always correspond to what people intend.
• Too much drinking will ultimately lead to death.
• Revenge takes careful planning and hard work.
• Lying is an important part of friendship.
• People take time to become enemies.
• Families determine life outcomes.

Have your students discuss the options and why each could or could not be a theme for this short story!

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TEACHING WORDS AND PHRASES QUESTIONS FOR THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

Here is one of the standards that asks students to analyze words and phrases, in this case figurative language.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

4.  How does Poe use irony to contribute to the meaning of the text?

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You also might want to focus on TONE! As a part of the standard, students are asked to analyze the impact of diction on tone.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

This standard has so many parts:

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as used in the text
• Note both figurative and connotative meanings of words/phrases
• analyze the overall impact of diction on meaning AND tone

5.  What is Montresor’s tone towards Fortunato in the journey through the catacombs?

Teaching citing evidence questions for the cask of amontillado.

For every answer, students should be able to support their responses to the questions for The Cask of Amontillado with evidence! Too often, a student will guess. We don’t want that; we want them to be sure. One way to bolster students’ confidence is to teach them how to cite evidence!

Here is the standard for citing evidence:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Let’s break it down. Students must do the following:

• Cite evidence that is both strong and thorough
• Use the evidence to support what the text says explicitly and implicitly
• Make inferences

This is a tough standard for any teacher, which is why we need to consistently ask our students for the evidence!

Below are 2 questions for The Cask of Amontillado that help students understand the connection between characterization and evidence.

6. Which word or phrase from the text best characterizes Montresor? Choose 1 or 2 words and explain why these words best represent him.

7. which sentence demonstrates montresor is enjoying fortunato’s response.

1) I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. 2) The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. 3) It was  not  the cry of a drunken man. 4) There was then a long and obstinate silence.

5) I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. 6) The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. 7) When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.

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WHY SHOULD WE STILL TEACH POE?

I love teaching Edgar Allan Poe texts. They are what I would call high-engagement literature. Now, I say this knowing that Poe’s overall style can be quite difficult for many of our students. Because of this, I would encourage you to read with your students. With some classes, you may only need to read the first paragraph or two. In other classes, you might need to read the whole short story as a class.

And that is okay! I even used to read more difficult texts with my college students; every kid loves hearing a story read to them. When it comes to Poe, we want our students to get excited about the story and learn new diction and syntax at the same time. Just keep reading…and include questions for The Cask of Amontillado!

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“The Cask of Amontillado” Theme, Summary & Analysis by Edgar Allan Poe (Like Sparknotes)

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a frequently anthologized short story and one of my favorites. This gothic/horror tale is set in Europe during the late 18th or early 19th century. It’s told by a first person narrator, Montresor, a nobleman. It deals with an idea that recurred in Poe’s stories—being buried alive in some form. It’s a popular  short story for students .

“The Cask of Amontillado” Summary

Montresor vows revenge against Fortunato over an insult, a revenge that he will take at the right time.

At the bottom is a deep crypt, its walls lined with human remains. Fortunato steps into a recess to find the amontillado. Montresor quickly chains him to the wall.

“The Cask of Amontillado” Theme: Revenge

Montresor makes his motivation plain from the start: “. . . when he [Fortunato] ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” The narrator tells us what the story he’s about to recount is all about. After hearing the full story, the reader can agree that the narrator was reliable on this point.

“It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” A secret, convoluted plot to destroy Fortunato’s life won’t satisfy Montresor. Even killing him with subterfuge isn’t enough. The man must know who has come for him.

Montresor hasn’t given Fortunato any cause to raise his defenses. “Neither by word nor deed” did he indicate he held a grudge. He continued “to smile in his face.”

“The Cask of Amontillado” Theme: Remorse

Some things used to support this include:

Some things that suggest Montresor isn’t repenting over a wrong include:

Another possibility is that this point is unsettled so readers will discover their own view on the subject. Conversely, others can appreciate the story and not really care if he’s sorry or not.

In the end, the establishing conceit of the story is that it’s being told to someone who knows Montresor well. That someone is not any of us, so we’re missing some important information about his character that would make the motive behind the story clearer.

“The Cask of Amontillado” Theme: The Dangers of Alcohol

Throughout their interaction, incidents accumulate that might have become suspicious to a sober man, such as:

Ultimately, Fortunato’s intoxication significantly shifts the balance of power. It all but guarantees Montresor’s success.

Other Themes In “The Cask of Amontillado”

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“The Cask of Amontillado” Analysis Questions

1. to whom is montressor telling this story.

My guess is that he’s talking to his wife, mistress or friend. I don’t see enough support for repentance to think he’s telling a priest.

2. Are there any examples of irony?

3. does montressor have a valid reason for holding his grudge.

It’s noteworthy that Fortunato doesn’t ask Montresor why he’s killing him. I would guess that would be the first question that would come to someone’s mind—it’s what I would ask. The fact that he doesn’t implies he knows why, suggesting Fortunato has done something to injure or insult Montresor.

“The Cask of Amontillado”

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

He had a weak point—this Fortunato—although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity—to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack—but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materially: I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could.

“Amontillado!”

“As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchresi. If any one has a critical turn it is he. He will tell me——”

“To your vaults.”

Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.

“It is farther on,” said I; “but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls.”

My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes.

Here I knocked off the neck of a bottle which I drew from a long row of its fellows that lay upon the mould.

He again took my arm, and we proceeded.

“Nemo me impune lacessit.” [“No one wounds me with impunity”]

“It is nothing,” he said; “let us go on. But first, another draught of the Medoc.”

“Then you are not of the brotherhood.”

“A mason,” I replied.

At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth side the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior crypt or recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven. It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite.

“The Amontillado!” ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment.

It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eighth, the ninth and the tenth tier. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato. The voice said—

“For the love of God, Montresor!”

“Fortunato!”

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A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

‘The Cask of Amontillado’ is one of Poe’s shorter classic tales. It was first published in 1846 in a women’s magazine named Godey’s Lady’s Book , a hugely popular magazine in the US in the mid-nineteenth century. (The magazine had published one of Poe’s earliest stories, ‘The Visionary’, twelve years earlier.)

‘The Cask of Amontillado’ is one of Poe’s ‘revenge stories’, and the way he depicts the avenger’s psychological state is worthy of closer analysis.

Plot summary

First, a quick summary of the plot of ‘The Cask of Amontillado’, which is our way of saying ‘those who wish to avoid spoilers please look away now’. The story is narrated by the murderer, Montresor, who takes revenge on a fellow Italian nobleman, Fortunato, during the carnival season.

Fortunato, drunk and dressed in motley, boasts that he can tell an amontillado from other sherry, and so Montresor lures his rival down into Montresor’s family catacombs, saying that he has some amontillado for Fortunato to taste. Fortunato finds the descent difficult, thanks to the nitre in the catacombs, which exacerbate his bad chest.

Montresor plays on Fortunato’s inherent sense of pride in his knowledge of wines, by telling him that, if Fortunato cannot make the journey into the catacombs, they can turn back and Montresor can give the wine to Luchresi, another nobleman, instead.

Of course, this only makes Fortunato even more determined to be the one to taste the amontillado, and so they two of them keep going. When they arrive down in the catacombs, Montresor having plied his enemy with Medoc wine, he chains his drunken rival to the wall and then proceeds to wall him up inside the family vault, burying the man alive.

Fortunato at first believes it to be a jest, but then realises that he has been left here to die. Fifty years later, Montresor says that the body of Fortunato is still there in the vault.

Why does Montresor want revenge on Fortunato? This is where we see Poe’s genius (a contentious issue – W. B. Yeats thought his writing ‘vulgar’ and T. S. Eliot, whilst praising the plots and ideas of Poe’s stories, thought the execution of them careless) can be seen most clearly in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’.

For Montresor has every reason to confide to us – via his close friend, the addressee of his narrative, who is our stand-in in the story – his reason for wishing to kill Fortunato. But instead of getting a clear motive from him, we are instead given a series of possible reasons, none of which quite rings true.

It may be that Poe learned this idea from Shakespeare’s Othello , where the villainous Iago’s reasons for wishing to destroy Othello’s life are unclear, not because Iago offers us no plausible reasons for wishing to cause trouble, but because he offers us several , the effect of which is that they all cancel each other out, to an extent.

This is made clear in the opening words of the story:

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled – but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk.

Immediately, we are given an insight into the motive for the crime, but there is a sense that Montresor  wants  his crime – which he almost views as a work of art – to be acknowledged and even appreciated, in a strange way, by the victim. In other words, as Montresor explains, he wants Fortunato to know who has killed him (and why), but he wants to make sure nobody else finds out:

I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

That opening sentence is like a literal enactment of the familiar phrase, ‘to add insult to injury’. This provides a key clue to the motivation – shaky and vague as it is – of Montresor. His revenge is not motivated primarily by any tangible harm that Fortunato has done him, so much as a sense of resentment, a way Fortunato has of making Montresor feel inferior.

There are several clues offered by Poe in the story which suggest this as a plausible analysis of Montresor’s character and motivation. First of all, there is Fortunato’s name, suggesting fortune (wealth) but also being fortunate (luck), two qualities which don’t tend to enamour people to you, even though one’s possession of one or both of them hasn’t necessarily harmed anyone else. As F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby , put it: ‘Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.’

Although ‘Montresor’, the narrator’s name, suggests literally a ‘mountain of treasure’, the fortunate Fortunato still has the edge: as we know from such stories as Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ , money is worth little without luck, for luck is how one acquires more money (though hard work doesn’t go amiss, of course). Another clue comes when Montresor fails to interpret a gesture made by Fortunato:

He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.

I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement – a grotesque one.

‘You do not comprehend?’ he said.

This taut, clipped conversation continues, as Poe deftly outlines the underlying reasons for the animosity that exists between the two men. In short, Montresor fails to understand the significance of the gesture Fortunato performs, leading Fortunato to suspect that Montresor is not a mason. Montresor insists he is, but Fortunato is having none of it:

‘You? Impossible! A mason?’

Fortunato asks Montresor for a sign that he really is a freemason:

‘It is this,’ I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel.

‘You jest,’ he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. ‘But let us proceed to the Amontillado.’

This moment suggests a further underlying reason for Montresor’s desire for revenge: Fortunato insults him by belittling him and reminding him that he is not part of the same ‘club’ as Fortunato.

It may be that Montresor – his name perhaps suggesting acquired wealth rather than first-rank nobility like Fortunato (who has inherited his wealth and name by being ‘fortunate’ enough to be born into the right aristocratic family) – is not quite of the same pedigree as Fortunato, and so has had none of the advantages and benefits that Fortunato has enjoyed.

Poe makes his point by some subterranean wordplay on mason : Fortunato refers to the freemasons, that secret elite society known for its mutual favours and coded signs, gestures, and rituals, but Montresor’s trowel suggests the stonemasons, those artisans and labourers who are not aristocrats but possess great manual skill.

This pun is confirmed later in the story by Montresor’s reference to the ‘mason-work’ when he is walling his hapless rival up inside the catacombs.

‘The Cask of Amontillado’ can be productively linked – via comparative analysis – with a number of other Poe stories. Its murderous narrator links the story to ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘ The Black Cat ’; its focus on revenge and the misuse of alcohol links it to ‘Hop-Frog’; the alcohol motif is also seen in ‘The Black Cat’, while the use of jester’s motley also suggests a link with Poe’s other great revenge tale, ‘Hop-Frog’, where the title character is a jester in the employ of a corrupt king.

The live burial motif is also found in Poe’s story ‘ The Premature Burial ’ and ‘ The Fall of the House of Usher ’.

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There is something very odd about this story – the title emphasises the ‘amontillado’ which the murderer uses as bait for his victim, and the victim dreamily repeates the word as if it refers to something very unusual and precious. But unless there is something special about this cask – and no one suggests that there is, it could just as easily be the kind of wine you can buy in Sainsbury’s – and I frequently do, to use in cooking. And there is the dismissal of the man who ‘cannot tell Amontillado from sherry’ – but actually of course Amontillado is sherry. And it’s not an ‘Italian wine’ but Spanish. Did Poe know all this? is he implying that the two are not the aristocrats they seem and claim to be, but a pair of drunken louts? or did he use the name because it sounded exotic, without knowing what it was…

I think he used the whole ‘Amontillado is sherry’ thing as a joke. Fortunato and Montresor are an awful lot alike, after all. Even there names mean the same thing.

This is one of my favorite Poe stories and a fantastic analysis!

Thank you! It’s one of my favourites too – and there are plenty of fine stories to choose from :)

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Iago–yes, that is very clear intertextuality. I’ll bring that in with my Othello unit with my seniors.

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1. In the opening sentence, Montresor says that an insult from Fortunato motivated him to seek revenge. (Paragraph 1)

2. The story primarily takes place in the catacombs below Montresor’s home. (Paragraph 25)

3. Fortunato has been drinking excessively in carnival celebrations, making him easy for Montresor to manipulate. (Paragraph 4)

4. Montresor says he has purchased a rare cask of Amontillado wine, stored in the catacombs, and says he could use Fortunato’s help in affirming that it really is Amontillado. (Paragraph 3)

5. Montresor chains Fortunato in a small recess in the catacomb, builds a wall to seal him in, and leaves him there to die. (Paragraph 71-end)

6. The prevailing mood is one of foreboding, suspense, and darkness. (Various paragraphs)

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1. Examples of verbal irony include Fortunato’s name, suggesting good fortune although he meets a tragic end, and the double meaning of mason —Fortunato is a Freemason, while Montresor plans to build a literal wall. The irony contributes to the mood of horror because the humor contrasts so sharply with Montresor’s evil plan. (Paragraphs 54-66)

2. “The Cask of Amontillado” symbolizes both the object of desire that lures Fortunato to his demise and the hidden revenge contained within the story’s events. (Various paragraphs)

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