This analysis was very profound and revealed a number of ironies and parallels I do not think I would have caught on my own! Something I would like to add, however, was that in your analysis of Fortunato, you claimed that his name was ironic because he was in fact very unfortunate. This can be even more so ironic, however, because he led a very fortunate life. A rich man and a connoisseur. It is eiry how a man can lead a fulfilling and rich life, only to die a lonely and unsuspected death! This was very clever on Poe's behalf and it begs the question: What are true riches? A man who lives a life of wealth and gluttony for material goods dies all the same as a poor man. I believe this theme was a brilliant underlying message to those who caught it!
@hajirahaamir87273 жыл бұрын
i have never been more thankful for a video before
@sophiehurtt36723 жыл бұрын
literally me rn LDNFKEB
@josephgibson35595 жыл бұрын
a little repetitive but I def enjoyed the visuals with the solid analysis
@yonorush2 жыл бұрын
I agree but it is a short story and it will contain a large amount of messages in just one phrase
@subhashiniramachandran34434 жыл бұрын
It was a real help for my class. It had great visuals and wonderful content. Just a small request. Many of my students who watched it felt that it the narration was a bit fast. This is because English is not their native tongue. Your content is great and I would like to show more to my students. Kindly narrate slower. Thanks for your help!
@Someone-ig7we4 жыл бұрын
There's a way to slow down the video yourself :) Click the gear at the bottom right, quick playback speed, then adjust it to your liking.
@alecastillo73813 жыл бұрын
do u know when the crime occurred ?
@alecastillo73812 жыл бұрын
@Ritsuka Fujimaru bruh
@majjamajai27013 жыл бұрын
These stories are more interesting than any suspense drama!!
@angeline83422 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This helped me a lot and definitely made me enjoy and understand the story more. I also liked the way it was being explained although it is a bit repetitive.
@DuckyWP4 жыл бұрын
The coat of arms for the Montresors is a snake biting a foot. The foot stepped on the snake and that is why the snake is biting the foot. Not the snake bit the foot and the foot stepped on the snake.
@williamg99774 жыл бұрын
Ducky I thought the same thing. The snake (The Montresors) is biting the foot as out of revenge for stepping on it.
@tupactwin4 жыл бұрын
In other word They call him big hat logan because he wore a big hat
@tupactwin4 жыл бұрын
Wow so deep
@DuckyWP4 жыл бұрын
@@tupactwin your the president so i guess what you say goes
@pareo84093 жыл бұрын
@@DuckyWP lol
@3toYT3 жыл бұрын
It makes so much more sense now! Thanks!
@AlexGarcia-se6vm2 жыл бұрын
This whole youtube channel is a lifesaver for my humanities class.
@Bluestar11jct43 жыл бұрын
thank you so much i did not understand this story even after reading it multiple times sooo thank you so much! i understand it now.
@lucascastaneda9095 Жыл бұрын
Lucas Castañeda - Creative Writing- The origin of "The Cask of Amontillado" itself reflects one of the story's main themes, the desire for vengeance.
@Amee1306 Жыл бұрын
explain the story very well, although repeated many times, it is enough to help newcomers understand what the video is saying, they make me understand what they are saying
@user-eq6ly8yh1w Жыл бұрын
Great video, but I just feel the need to mention that Julius Caesar is not a Roman emperor. His adopted son, Augustus, was the first emperor of Rome.
@Andres-sk4lx Жыл бұрын
Perfectly explained. You found a way to explain in a very interesting way, all the important things in the story. Even though it is a bit repetitive, I understood everything really well.
@mr.griever99093 жыл бұрын
Make more of these! I love to watch them😃
@zpzp964 жыл бұрын
This is helping me a lot with my fiction class :D Thanks !
@tysoucy43793 жыл бұрын
one of the questions my teacher gave me was asking if it is day time or dark, do you know what time of day it is in the story
@animalfinatic93662 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Unfortunately some people fail to understand Montresor is a sociopath, instead they glamorize and idolize him....How shameful.
@joshrodriguez573 Жыл бұрын
A fact about The title “The Cask of Amontillado” is that it represents the themes of revenge, foolishness, and intense irony.
@williamg99774 жыл бұрын
I always thought the Snake was the Montresor family in their coat of arms.
@marytraut34712 жыл бұрын
It is.
@yutika_damini6 ай бұрын
Same
@miguelangeljaramillo7249 Жыл бұрын
Miguel Jaramillo Perez This video was a very nice and interesting way of explain this history. It was a little bit repetitive but very interesting at the same time. I like the way this history represents revenge, deceit, and murder.
@saralopezmontoya6790 Жыл бұрын
A key factor in the hysteria is how Fortunato's death marks your mind, such an atypical way of dying, and makes you wonder if he deserved to die or just be forgiven.
@sophiaannnn6 ай бұрын
The exaggerated way of speaking really makes the information absorb in my brain better . Thankd
@eeeeee_____6 ай бұрын
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@amandaroque52212 жыл бұрын
Thank you this was very helpful, it was a bit repetitive but in a way it helped me better understand the story. Thank you so much
@sograe2 жыл бұрын
you’re the only reason i passed my english class i swear
@genesisishere52 жыл бұрын
You were my Course Hero today. Thank you
@marytraut34712 жыл бұрын
There are several inaccuracies here. EXAMPLE the coat of arms. The video states the foot is Montresor and the snake is Fortunato but it is more accurate to state the opposite. Fortunato (the foot) thinks he is hurting (insulting) Montresor (the snake), but little does the foot know, he will be bitten by Montresor, hence revenge. The foot stepping on the snake won't kill it, but the bite of the snake on the heel of the foot would provide a venomous bite. There are other inaccuracies here as well.
@mochixmelodii Жыл бұрын
like what
@yutika_damini6 ай бұрын
That makes sense 💯
@rbbaking35304 жыл бұрын
Thank you Russell, very cool!
@tasneemabusnineh84144 жыл бұрын
Thank you ♥️
@jl4w542 жыл бұрын
hell yeah dude I read this story like 6 times and didn't get half the info that I just did from this video.
@luiscarlosparrado9491 Жыл бұрын
I really like the video!
@UnemployedDoctor4 жыл бұрын
Looks like I’m the only one who’s watching this for fun lol
@masonstrawn26584 жыл бұрын
Definitely
@guidrydale3 жыл бұрын
No not quite. I’m revisiting this short story after 25 years.
@alborzghaderi70453 жыл бұрын
Hey Doc. Try to find some jobs instead of watching this torturous video. LOL
@lizzy-qo6xh3 жыл бұрын
@@alborzghaderi7045 oop🌚
@fgarciz3 жыл бұрын
I'm here due to a meme
@myboy_3 жыл бұрын
god this guy is such a goober
@dysonhendricks3 жыл бұрын
This man just did my English for me.
@kna07fbgtx2 жыл бұрын
Where was this when I was in high school omg
@laurengrazes13733 жыл бұрын
I have a quiz on this story and the pit in the pendulum so I’m watching this
@yanmengzeng80904 жыл бұрын
thanks teacher!
@miffyluvbug4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!!
@barracuda70182 жыл бұрын
Edgar A.Poe 'English vocabulary must be larger than any other novelist of the 19'h century
@soninoscardelletti2844 Жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC ACCOUNT! GOD BLESS
@janarahhal13573 жыл бұрын
Ok I need someone to explain to me Fortunato and Montresor's miscommunication because I have a h.w due tomorrow😅
@juanpablonaviaadarve1532 Жыл бұрын
my point of view of this writing is one of the macabre of this author due to how that cruel murder is narrated to which revenge is also shown to its maximum.
@wafaakhaled14033 жыл бұрын
Very useful content Thank you , i love u guys
@zalakchheda44592 жыл бұрын
thankyou for this
@jaruwand.50087 ай бұрын
One of the most difficult short stories to read/understand 😥
@dyjeman55653 жыл бұрын
Thank you🙏
@dimetronome2 жыл бұрын
The audio reading of this story is about the same length as this summary.
@nathangrossi99182 жыл бұрын
Tysm
@Shine287 ай бұрын
Hey guys I think the family is obsessed with revenge based on the motto and coat of arms
@MelissaHurley19943 жыл бұрын
I have to write a whole ass paragraph about monstresor of his motive and critiea for revenge. Like up to 8 sentences nothing less than 6 sentences maybe. And I'm struggling.
@St4rgir1_5.03 жыл бұрын
this is definitely too late, but for future references, you can just go to the three lines under the video and press transcript and then you can copy what the video is saying.
@littletimmy77463 жыл бұрын
@@St4rgir1_5.0 thats plagiarism, and also its got like a million grammer mistakes in it
@michaelnoonan3522 жыл бұрын
I've written an unusual mystery story, entitled HAZARD ON THE LOOSE - which can be found in a volume of my stories entitled SEVEN TALL TALES; available at Amazon as a book or kindle - which you may be interested in; and which bears some similarities to The Cask of Amontillado; in that the denouement takes place in the wine cellar of an old house, where two keen wine buffs are seemingly intent on sampling some fine old vintages. The tale concerns a businessman, by the name of Jack Hazard, who breaks out of jail, with outside help, after serving five years of a fifteen year sentence. He had already promised to murder the four executives that he claimed had deliberately framed him up and saw him sentenced on entirely trumped up charges. One by one they are tracked down and murdered; until only two of the four remain. One of the remaining two hires the services of two private detectives, to add to the police protection he has already. Though it is assumed by most people that Hazard is the murderer the private detectives voice their doubts about this and reason that Hazard would be far too focused on keeping a low profile and avoiding recapture - as a large police force is dedicated to that purpose - to pursue some bizarre revenge vendetta. Will events prove them right? But if it isn't Hazard, then who is the actual killer? Could you guess? Happy listening, and reading.
@prioritythreat Жыл бұрын
Watching this during English
@Psalm19683 ай бұрын
6:20 - Christianity does not teach “reincarnation.” And I think as another the family crest holds a deeper symbolism than the host realizes. It’s probably a representation of the Edenic prophecy of Genesis 3, “You shall bruise its head but it shall bruise Your heel.” This pertains to the Son of Man crushing the head of the serpent but the serpent biting the heel of the Son of Man. In Christian theology this is speaking of Christ on the cross defeating death & the great serpent-adversary of mankind. Having taught Poe’s story myself I am confident Poe is either making a slight against God for what appears to Poe as an unpleasant aspect of God enacting His “vengeance” upon those who have offended Him and/or Poe is tacitly suggesting that Montressor and Fortunado are representing mankind apart from God’s forgiveness. We are all like these fools. Wine here, instead of representing Jesus’s blood shed for the forgiveness of sin, is the vengeful vintage foolishly imbibed for the purpose of drunkenness - wine is a “mocker” (see Proverbs 20:1), a fool. So how will you have your wine? As a “fool” that leads to vengeance and death (Fortunado does not come out of his tomb), or will you have the wine of forgiveness and life Jesus offers as His blood, shed for the forgiveness of sin? Poe to say the least was conflicted on this point.
@treason50452 жыл бұрын
I'm glad for your explanation, but you sound too overenthusiastic and also a bit repetitive, but I guess it's fine since it gets the job done.
@ekdf83324 жыл бұрын
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@JoeSmith-xl8um Жыл бұрын
how many times can you repeat the same phrases? why do you have to talk like you are explaining this to 5 year olds? the tone is very off putting, it feels like I am watching the wiggles or something, grating voice and bizarre facial expressions very uncomfortable to watch no offence
@williamg99774 жыл бұрын
Lisp
@Mebimuffo Жыл бұрын
His fake enthusiasm was unbearable. I couldn't finish the video. Way too much "in your face". Chill man.