Short storyGothic · 1846Study guide · no full textGentle

The Cask of Amontillado

The perfect compressed revenge plot — and a study in how a narrator persuades himself for fifty years that he was wronged.

Revenge Horror Guilt Justice

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Guilt — how other works handle it →Justice — how other works handle it →

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The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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