1、,The cask of amontillado,Parts,一,二,三,四,Plot and theme,Character analysis,Setting,Writing techniques,Plot and theme,Montresor, the hero, who carries a grudge(不滿） against Fortunato for an offense that is never explained.,Montresor leads drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers(室） beneath his pal

2、azzo with the promise of a taste of Amontillado.,When they reach the last underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall, builds a new wall to seal him in, and leaves him to die.,Themes: Revenge,The intensity（ 強(qiáng)烈）of revenge and how it can destroy lives.,一,Men will go to extremes to get

3、revenge,二,3.,From the point of view of an obsessively disturbed people, supposed wrongs that are revenged can be justified（有正當(dāng)理由的）.,4.,You can never kill a person without killing part of yourself.,Setting,Place and time : somewhere in Italy, during the carnival.,Accurate Two different place: 1.above

4、 the ground ,every one is submerged in the joyful atmosphere of the carnival , 2.but the under ground is the world of the lonely, dark, cold, with piles of bones, with the wall of nitrate, the Edger gives reader the feeling with hair standing on end.,For example,Thevaultsareinsufferablydamp.Theyaree

5、ncrustedwithnitre. Ithangslikemossuponthevaults.Wearebelowtheriversbed.Thedropsofmoisturetrickleamongthe bones. Wepassedthrougharangeoflowarches,descended,passedon,anddescendingagain,arrivedatadeep crypt,inwhichthefoulnessoftheaircausedour flambeauxrathertoglowthanflame.,The occupation:,Montresor ,a

6、 kind of the representative declining nobility Fortunato ,a kind of the representative of the rise of the upstart,Social environment and the emotional condition: Under the fast development of the capitalism, the social structure of different kind of race, one wants to be the new top of the society f

7、rom the bottom with their accounting money, while the old try to reserve their place, where is the main conflicts Edger wants to depict through this kind of seeming ridiculous murder.,Character analysis,Fortunato：,a man who is arrogance，hubris and stupid。Also he is very naive。,He has repeatedly offe

8、nd Montresor and dont even know it, its for Montresors revenge planted the seeds of evil.,Montresor：,insidious，vicious，experienced and astute。 He keeps his countenance in surface but schemes a carefully planned and successful implementation of his vicious retaliation.,Fortunatos death is a tragedy o

9、f character。,For the two characters, one is arrogant and stupid, the other is dark and evil. The whole story to death as one of the themes，through the art of irony，show us two mans whos inner world with character flaw。,The author reveal people tends to be ignored in the inner world of pathological a

10、nd dark side by the novel，which is worth pondering。,Writing Techniques,1.Contrast 2.Pun 3.Irony 4. Stream of consciousness,Contrast,1.The environment of vaults and the outdoors 2.The contrast of two men in their dress. 3.The attitude of the two man.,Pun,1.Fortunato(fortunate) and Montresors (monstrous) The names are puns with contract. 2.Cast is a barrel for storing wine, but it also literally means casket.,Irony,1.Montresors unctuous praise. 2. Fortunato regarded himself the greatest wine taster. 3.The killers sigh to the dead.,Stream of consciousness,This nove