The cask of Amontillado

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

The Cask of Amontillado

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What are some characteristics of gothic literature?

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Gothic elements in The Cask of Amontillado

Homework

Look up information about The Cask of Amontillado.

Things like: theme, symbolism and narrator point of view.

Also look up information about narrator point of view in general. Write down your findings and bring to class.

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Due: Week 4

The Cask of Amontillado

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Schedule

Dramatic Irony explanation

Unreliable narrator explanation

Assignment

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Unreliable narrator

An unreliable narrator can be defined as any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly. Many are unreliable through circumstances, character flaws or psychological difficulties.

Why is Montresor an
unreliable narrator?

Dramatic Irony

"A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character"

"I shall not die of a cough."

"True, true," I replied.

Assignment

Find examples of dramatic irony in the text.

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"I shall not die of a cough."

"True, true," I replied.

Page 4

"I drink," he said, "to the buried that repose around us."

"And I to your long life."

Page 4

"And the motto?"

"Nemo me impune lacessit."      

"Good!" he said.

--> No one provokes me with impunity.

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"You are not of the masons."

 

"Yes, yes," I said; "yes, yes."

"You? Impossible! A mason?"

"A mason," I replied.

"A sign," he said, "a sign."