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The wealthy could opt for family catacombs beneath their estates.

The wealthy could opt for family catacombs beneath their estates. The narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” carries out his revenge within the catacombs beneath his palazzo.

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The wealthy could opt for family catacombs beneath their estates.

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  1. The wealthy could opt for family catacombs beneath their estates.

  2. The narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” carries out his revenge within the catacombs beneath his palazzo.

  3. The narrator is able to lure his victim into the catacombs with the promise of amontillado, a fine sherry wine.(The l’s are pronounced like thel’s in tortilla.)

  4. The “supreme madness” of Carnival aside, why doesn’t the suggestion of a journey to the catacombs for a taste of wine seem odd or suspicious to the victim?

  5. The Storage of Wine

  6. For wines to maintain their best quality, they need to be stored at fairly cool and constant temperatures.

  7. During the time period in which the story is set, modern electric refrigeration was not available. To protect wine collections, connoisseurs adopted the practice of storing wines under the ground where temperatures remain ideal year-round.

  8. Basements, cellars, and even catacombs serve as excellent storage facilities for the precious vintages.

  9. Herein, where wine bottles intermingle with the bones of the dead, the narrator carries out his plan for revenge.

  10. Edgar Allan Poe • Author, not the narrator, of the story. • Developed characters whose sanity is questionable. • Universally credited as a significant contributor to the development of the short story as a literary genre.

  11. “The Cask of Amontillado”ENJOY THIS LITERARY JOURNEY INTO THE DARK SIDE OF REVENGE!

  12. SourcesCoil, Suzanne M. Mardi Gras (photos by Michael Osborne). New York: Macmillan, 1994. France: A Culinary Journey. San Francisco: Collins, 1992.Poe, Edgar A. “The Cask of Amontillado” Literature. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1998. “Underground Paris: The Catacombs.” www.triggur.org.

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