In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche" (Jerome B et al. 73). The falling action begins as the Montresor finished walling up Fortunato "I forced the last stone into its position" (Jerome B et al. 74). After walling up Fortunato the reader is led to the conclusion in which Montresor wishes that Fortunato rest in peace. Then leaves implying that this story had been eating at him for half a century "Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat" (Jerome B et al. 74)!.
Romanticism is defined as neo classicism or the rejection of intellect in which emotions must be use to express thoughts or ideas. These works like "The Cask of Amontillado" are very dramatic pieces that are set in erotic and in an awkward places. "The Cask of Amontillado" is a murder based on emotions hence defining the story as romantic "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge" (Jerome B et al. 70). Furthermore, the setting is a pre-Lenten carnival in an Italian city, sixth through fifteenth century making it erotic and awkward "was skilful in the Italian vintages it was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season"(Jerome B et al. 70).
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Poe also implemented styles of realism and gothic into this story. Realism is defined as making the story and events come to real life within the reader's head, or something that is not too far beyond belief. This story, when read in its entirety, seems not too far from reality and sounds like an event that might have actually occurred even though the reader knows its fiction.
