Symbolism In The Cask Of Amontillado

This mask represents the catacomb in which Montresor killed Fortunato in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. The masks lacks a mouth to represent how the catacomb kept the secret of Fortunato’s death: “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious” (Poe). The cask of Amontillado represents the excuse that Montresor made to get Fortunato into the catacomb: “ ‘The Amontillado!’ ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment” (Poe). The wall represents when Montresor closes up Fortunato and leaves one brick out to make sure he was dead: “I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in”(Poe).
The chains and shackles hanging