ENGL285 Washington The Cask of Amontillado By Edger Allan Poe
Humanities
Please see the attached Assignment
Choose a story from the syllabus and examine the paranoia or altered state of consciousness exhibited by one or more characters from that story. Use a pivotal scene from the story to illustrate the conflicts between the “real” (publicly agreed-on) world surrounding the characters and the behind-the-scenes or alternate reality they have discovered, or inhabit.
By “pivotal” scene, I mean a scene that introduces important characters or information, a plot twist or development, an important change in a character, or a change in the relationship between characters. A pivotal scene may also involve a confrontation of some sort, or an important loss, gain or discovery. The climax of a story is a pivotal scene, of course, but there are other such scenes in every story. Your main idea (thesis statement) should explain how the character’s paranoia helps shape the story’s action and the reader’s understanding of the subject matter. The essay should be a minimum of 500 words long
