The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe
December 18th, 2022
Note: Your thesis statement should reflect what you will be arguing about in your essay. It should be specific and narrow in focus and clearly tell the reader the purpose of your essay. Make sure your thesis includes the theme you will discuss in the short story as well as the literary element.
Note: Do set up your quotes with a brief phrase that sets up the context of the quote.
My working Thesis Statement: The two settings demonstrated in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the Italian festival carnival and Montresor’s catacombs under his family’s home convey the theme of contrasting life and death through Montresor’s murderous revenge plot.
If you have any question regarding the prompt/ outline feel free to contact me! O have also provided a pdf of the prompt, my essay proposal, and some other information about the story.