Group 1 What kinds of effects do the five senses create in the story? Group 2 Compare this story to the “journey to the underworld” of traditional heroes, for instance the story of Orpheus. What similarities and dissimilarities do you detect? What is the effect of evoking this convention? Group 3 Consider the time structure of the story. What effects does it create? Group 4 What is the significance of entombing Fortunato in Montresor’s family vault? Group 5 What does the story tell us about sanity and insanity, sobriety and insobriety? Group 6 Imagine telling the story from Fortunato’s first person point of view. What kind of voice would he have? What different effects might this version achieve? Write a fragment of the story (200 words or so) from Fortunato’s viewpoint. Group 7 What Gothic elements are used in the story? Try re-telling the story without these elements. How well does it work? (for a strict definintion of Gothic elements, see http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm; you are welcome to use a broader definition.) --

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