What time setting was The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer 1

Although it's never stated for certain, the time period in the Cask of Amontillado is probably the 18th or 19th century. The use of torches, Montresor's cape and the vocabulary used in the story are all clues about the time period in which the story was set.

Answer 2

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is set during the Carnival season in an unnamed European city, likely in the late 18th or early 19th century. This festive atmosphere adds an eerie juxtaposition to the dark events in the story.

Answer 3

The story does not tell us what year it takes place in. However, we do know that it is evening early in an Italian city during carnival right after the catholic season of lent. By the action and descriptions we can make out that it took place a long time ago yet, we never find out which year.

Answer 4

The setting is unspecified both as to date and place. It is likely that it occurs in Italy, because the names of both Fortunato and Luchesi are Italian and at one point, Montresor refers to his home as a "palazzo", an Italian word. Montresor refers to the fact that few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit when it comes to wines and that he himself buys many of the Italian vintages. Italy also holds various carnivals in different towns prior to Lent. Some writers speculate that it is in France based on the catacomb-like cellar under the Montresor home. As to the date, it is possible that it is sometime near the turn of the 18th century, only because Montresor is recounting events that occurred 50 years ago. Since the story itself was published in 1846, going back 50 years would put the time at sometime in the 1790s; but there is nothing in the story itself to establish that.

Answer 5

The time when the story takes place is never specified except to say that it was at the height of the supreme madness of the carnival. This might mean a carnival before the season of Lent, which would put the time in February or early March sometime. As far as the year, the narrator never says the year in which the story takes place. One possibility is that it occurred in 1796, because the reader may assume that Montresor is speaking as of the date of publication of the story in 1846 about an event that occurred 50 years before that. There are no facts in the story either supporting or not supporting this possibility.

Answer 6

Montresor says the events happened half a century ago, or 50 years. We can assume that it's 50 years since Poe wrote the tale, not 50 years from the time of the story and today.

Answer 7

1846

Answer 8

Fall