October 2020 update to this gag: It's almost like ignoring a plague and pretending it will magically get better might come around to bite you in the respiratory system.
And on that note, did you know that the (Soon to be Ex-)President just went ahead with this year's large Christmas party despite Covid running rampant in the White house for the past month?
I always thought the reason Prospero and his party goers were mad at the stranger in red was because they went to all the effort of walling themselves into Prospero's Party Palace to be able to pretend the Red Death wasn't happening and someone shows up dressed as a Red Death victim. So, y'know, buzzkill.
Well the intruder WAS the red death. The Party goers just refused to admit and believe it was happening to everyone, closed off doors or not. Thats the reason for the character in red, death was coming for all of them eventually, but because they refused to acknowledge their pandemic WAS happening they all died at that party.
@@spamachuchan8824 True. I was just referring to what the party-goers are thinking when they first notice the figure. Things don't start getting weird until Prince Prospero orders the person unmasked and everybody (Prospero himself included) is too creeped out to actually do anything. And even then, they still think they're dealing with a person in a transgressive costume right up until they yank it off and find no one behind the mask. It's definitely intended to symbolize that ignoring a problem not only doesn't solve it but also leaves you vulnerable to the consequences.
Yeah, I think the fact that the intruder was dressed as the corpse of someone who died of the red death, not just some random red robe, is kind of an important detail
When I read 'The Telltale Heart' I thought that the beating sound he heard was actually his own heart, and that the more he worried about it the louder it got and the more he was driven crazy by it, thinking that it was the old man's heart. I don't know if it was meant that way, but that was my interpretation, and I thought it was poetic that his own stress and guilt about murdering this dude was his undoing.
I wrote an extended ending for a school project in 8th grade. But I felt like Poe ended it well. So I tried to stick with his style and then prolonged the madness a bit. And then, plot twist, it turns out the reader is coming from the point of view of a mental health professional interviewing him, to which he again concludes that he is not mad, why would you think that, and freaks out.
When someone says gothic I always imagine a girl in a goth lolita dress, Wednesday Addams, and Dracula all standing in the same room very awkwardly staring at each other.
I interpreted the old mans heart beat after he died as the “protagonists” heart beat, but him being insane, he believed it was the old mans heart in the floorboards
I’ve heard some reader theories that the narrator associates the sound of the old man’s heart with his own. I subscribe to his mind completely snapping due to his guilty conscience; after all he says he didn’t hate the old man but was paranoid of the false eye worn by the victim
I love the fact that every once in a while, Red drops the "normal human person" facade and shows her "DEMON SORCERESS QUEEN OF THE MONSTERS LURKING IN THE DARK" real face that everyone knows and love. I love you, your Highness
I love Poe and Lovecraft because both of them are living personifications of their writing. Poe is dark and depressing and Lovecraft is scared of the unknown. AKA everything outside of his home village
@@Crazh457 sadly, it seems that counts as “the unknown”. I get that humans get a bit unnerved by things that they don’t completely understand, but this guy was just outrageous in comparison. At least we got some interesting mythos (the not-problematic parts, at least) out of it.
Regarding Fortunado's silence at the end of that story, he apparently had a really bad cough, probably had asthma or something, and apparently the tomb in which he would be killed was really suffocating. In the sense that literally he died due to suffocation just as Montresor was finishing up. That is also the why Montresor was so huffy, because he didn't get the death he wanted for Fortunado.
Now that I can remember it, I think that's a great detail to have in the story. A great way of showing that no matter how perfectly a revenge seems to be going, or how gleefully you feel seeing it through, at the end you're left feeling empty. No revenge, no matter how perfect, is really worth it in the end.
That is why you check their allergies before settling on how you're going to kill someone, as that can lead to them dying because you ate a pb&j before going up to talk to them.
My English teacher has a picture of Edgar Allen Poe up on her wall with the caption “i’m a just a poe boy nobody loves me” “he’s just a poe boy from a poe family”
I just really love how The Spanish Inquisition was a feared juggernaut until Monty Python turned them into a joke and meme, so that larger than life , goliath like fear factor was just gone only Monty Python
And Mel Brooks to a lesser extent. When I think of the Inquisition, I think of their musical number in History of the World Part I. And Monty Python too, of course.
Spanish Inquisition actually required evidence and court procedure, and often sentenced people to penances instead of burning (although we'd mostly consider having to wear a symbol marking you as a heretic to be "cruel and unusual"). They were ambivalent about torture as an effective method of interrogation, too. Now, the Roman inquisition, they were a very different story...
When my room mate plays dragon age inquisition as an elf I get to hear her say "No one expects the Dalish inquisition" any time she does something cool...
I am finding a lot of irony in this. when I was in high school, there were a lot of emo/goth kids like the ratio was about one non-goth kid out of 10. the teachers were all going nuts about it, saying that they don't know why we turned out this way. but in many of the English, literature, and theatre arts classes there was a treasure trove of tragedies, dark literature and a hefty helping of Edgar Allan Poe for homework every other day. If you had been exposed to the large amount of depressing subjects such as this and have algebra right after, you be crossing over to the dark side too.
We got to analysis Slyitha Plath for a term, newer but dower, and then write a sonnet after which she made most of us go to the school counsellor, what did she think was going to happen
You mean mallgawfs who listen to Marylin Manson and those shoddy nu metül bands, don't you? I am kinda betting you went to high school after the 00s, since that was the only time when you had way too many kids claiming they were now goth, but couldn't even name a single proper gothic rock, post-punk or darkwave song. Actual -excuse me for my elitism, but it's true- goths weren't really widespread in schools after the 80s, when the goth subculture (yes, subculture, not "fashion movement") had its peak popularity. Being into goth has less to do with reading Poe and gothic novels (something anyone can enjoy, regardless of their mood and depression btw isn't a mood, it's a serious illness) and being part of some kind of nebulous dark side than it was, traditionally in the 80s and first half of the 90s at least, about listening to gloomy, introspective post-punk music á la Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees or the Virgin Prunes and dressing up in pointy boots, too much fishnet and donning a shitton of hairspray onto the head to build ridiculous big hair nests. Also emo is something entirely different. Ofc lots of kids go through some edgy phase where they hop on to everything that looks cool to them, without really giving a shit about what it means in terms of music, history, etc because puberty makes them feel like they don't belong and hopping on some bandwagon gives them the allusion of belonging. That said, Poe and dark literature likely didn't turn students into try hard goffs. Hormones did. hence you get so many people during the age 12-20 shifting through all subcultures and hobbies you can name, from punk to hippie to vegan and prideful gamer or self-called world's next super models and they change that every week.
Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favorite poets so I wanted to say that for “The Masque of the Red Death” it was actually a pitch black room with a stained glass window which casked a red glow.
Except COVID isn't nearly as dangerous as old plagues were, either by infection rate or casualties. I honestly don't see the reason for the fear of it outside of China benefitting and the media getting attention
@@DavidbarZeus1 Yes, but it's still a virus. That means it can mutate, and possibly cause a LOT of problems. It can develop more serious symptoms, and kill off literally every single elder person on planet earth which is... about 962 million people.
@@DavidbarZeus1 There was never supposed to be fear of Covid, just caution, pragmatism and responsible choices to protect the vulnerable. Apparently though, that was far too much to ask in some of the world's most populous nations.
In Masque of the Red Death, prospero is mad at the Red Death because he thought the costume was a severely inappropriate joke about the plague outside, which Prospero wants all the nobles to not think about.
"You work to preserve your friendship because when all is said and done nothing on this Earth is more satisfying than looking into their eyes one day and seeing the hope drain from their face and in one fell swoop you *destroy them and all they hold dear* ." Best quote in this entire video XD Also, you need a merch store with a cup that says "Worlds Best Murder Victim" on it and a backpack or just a sac that says "Bag o' Bit's" on it. I would definatley buy that.
The reason why fortunato wasnt speaking to montresor is because he was dying from his cough and montresor was acting kind of pissed that he died because at the beggining of the book he said something like revenge is only worthwhile if your victim knows the full length of their punishment. Fortunato died of his cough and not from starvation which made Montresor angry. ( that is if he even realized he was already dead)
That's not what nevermore means, nevermore means specifically never _again_ and also that is one of the most known poems by Edgar Allen Poe, so tons of other people already did a video on it. Also *YES* I know it's a joke, it's a creative/funny joke. I just wanted you to know.
Thinking back on it, one thing I love about "The Cask of Amontillado" leaving out the actual motive for Montresor's murder of Fortunato (apart from how he inflicted "a thousand injuries" but the straw that broke the camel's back was "when he ventured upon insult") is that the reader can basically write in whatever _they_ want, depending on how sympathetic they feel towards Montresor. Whereas if Poe had picked some specific act or acts, different audience members would have had different opinions of the story based on how awful or how nominal they view the act. One person's justifiable reason for sealing a dude up in a wall in a wine cellar is, after all, a different person's no big deal. (That Red, in the video, seems to make the opposite assumption--that Montresor is ultimately a murderous nut--is, I think, a product of modern times, in which we really don't see a few insults as a good reason to go bang away at each other with pistols at dawn in a "duel of honor," still not extinguished behavior in Poe's day. So the mere fact that Montresor is committing revenge-murder is pretty well enough to condemn him by our standards.)
That's "Let the punishment fit the crime" sort of thinking. Logical and measured. That's not Poe. Also, it's not insane. I think it's more of a case of "I have a punishment and a victim. What crime can I accuse him of... Oh, I'll think of something on my way down there." Poe had more interest in "unreliable narrators" than dueling and insults upon one's honor.
Duels of honor were rarely (intentionally) fatal. They usually lasted until either first blood, which makes them akin to modern fencing, or one of the parties either can’t or otherwise won’t fight, making it akin to every other combat sport. The idea that was generally less “I will slaughter you on a leveled playing field, so that I can’t be tried for murder,” and more “I will let you, a man who recently expressed distaste for me, swing a deadly weapon at me in order to prove how wrong you are.”
I remember writing a modern version of this for school. I had the protagonist lure her rapist boyfriend into the steam tunnels, drug him, then castrate him.
I remember my literature textbook mentioning that The Cask of Amontillado is actually based on a old Legend from when Poe was in the army. Apparently there was a really nasty drill sergeant that got buried underneath the foundations of the fort where he was stationed at.
There’s basically no crime that would warrant walling someone up in complete darkness to kill them. There isn’t a whole lot of “well, maybe he was justified” when you’re doing what would be just about the worst punishment you could use on someone. The guy was very likely overreacting, with practically no chance of him not being crazy in some capacity.
We read The Tell-Tale Heart in 8th grade. Because you know, learning sbout a psycho killing some poor old man is always a good to story tell to a bunch of 13/14 year olds.
I think that part of Moana at the end of “You’re Welcome” where Maui shuts Moana in a cave after making a song and dance and giving her fruit might be a reference to the Cask of Amontillado
I always thought the reason Prospero and his party goers were mad at the stranger in red was because they went to all the effort of walling themselves into Prospero's Party Palace to be able to pretend the Red Death wasn't happening and someone shows up dressed as a Red Death victim. So, y'know, buzzkill.
Yeah, "The Cask of Amontillado" is pretty much the only horror story I've read that actually gave me nightmares. Just the thought of a friend or family member doing that to me terrified me. =/ That story is just messed up. T^T Poe was a genius.
The Tell-Tale Heart did that for me (who hasn't trembled at every literal bump in the night like the poor old man?!). The Raven creeped me out about as much!
I read that story in one of my English classes forever ago and completely fell in love with it. Its still my favorite Poe story. What's really cool is that while Fortunato was being bricked in by what he though was his "bestie", the fumes coming off of the mixture used to seal and stack the bricks were actually slowly killing Fortunato, which is why he doesn't answer Montresor. Fortunato is already dead, thus robbing Montresor of the slow, hunger inducing death that he had wanted. God, isn't it perfect?
No. His birth name was Edgar Allan he took the name Poe to honnor his adopted father figure. His parents died and left him w/ Mr Poe and his wife who took him in and raised him
@@Jellied_Slime_Games Actually, it was Edgar Poe. The name Allan came from his foster parents John and Frances Allan. Due to issues between Poe and his foster father, including financial, he went by Edgar A. Poe for most of his career.
@@Jellied_Slime_Games No problem, I was kind of obsessed with Poe back in elementary school. That's perfectly normal, right... not creepy or anything...? *nervous cough
The Telltale Heart narrator is great. Nothing beats the dramatic irony of a blatantly deranged narrator insisting he is NOT AT ALL INSANE. Very fascinating. And hilarious. (To me, at least. Is that weird?)
Alan Maslowski We actually analysed the narrator on English class. He was described as an unreliable narrator whose view couldn't be taken seriously. It is also very funny how the guy remotely keeps his insanity under control until he talks himself into it. If he didn't have such an abrasive inner monologue then he would have gotten off scot-free
I think my favorite part is when he's like "Dude, you should've seen how careful I was the whole time I was murdering that old man! If you'd seen it, you'd *totally* agree I couldn't possibly be insane."
7:39 Well duh, that's why I always make sure to tell people I see in person that I'm not crazy every time I see them. That way they know I'm not crazy. 8:21 Classic mistake. You must have missed the part of the poem where he said he wasn't crazy. That clearly establishes he's not crazy.
I remember reading the tell tale heart in middle school and being fascinated about the idea of somebody being so nervous they can hear their own heartbeat and is so insane that they believe it's the heartbeat of their victim. Lol.
Something I’ve come up with is the following: In Tale Tell Heart, the heart the insane man hears in the floorboard is actually the man’s own heart, since subconsciously, the man is guilty and nervous of being caught. Hearing your own heartbeat in stories means your experiencing an extreme emotion, typically fear. The man mistakes it for the old man’s heart in the floorboards, and so he confesses, which in turn stops the loud beating of his heart since the tension within his mind and body have dispersed-he is no longer nervous about being caught since he has let that go These are my thoughts, anyway.
OMG RED DEATH! When I was in fifth grade, my drama class did a play to that! I, of course being the theatre brat I am, was the Red Death. I had a cool mask and a cape. lol
damn, the book is much different than the script...shit.... in the script Prospero is the last to die, and everytime the clock bongs they move into the next room. A guest dies everytime they switch rooms. I wooshed around going "I am the RED DEATH! WHAHAHAHAH!!" then swishing my cape over people's faces....
Blu Luna Rue Ah yes, of course a school would allow grade schoolers have a play about The Red Death. And of course you would be The Red Death, you are a self proclaimed theater brat, after all. Bravo to you.
Blu Luna Rue We did the Raven in Sixth Grade. We needed more characters so they used my version of the poem not gonna say it though its really stupid. I was the raven. :p
I had to write short prequel to The Cask of Amontillado as an english assignment in high school. I wrote based off context clues that Montresor hated Fortunado because he insulted and disrespected his recently dishonored family (Got an A+ :D )
Something I found out a while back after I finished my English II class in highschool (in which I got to write fanfiction about the two as kids, which would have been even more awesome if I knew this tidbit) was that Fortunato, a self-proclaimed wine snob, didn't know amontillado was a real type of wine. Amontillado is not only real, but predates the story, proving it wasn't defictionalization. Fortunato has no idea what he's talking about and is acting like a know-it-all. I wrote a fanfic where he actually did know a thing or two, but the two had grown up poor together and when they were making it big, Fortunato managed to get the girl Montresor was also interested in and was trying to distance himself from him to look cool in front of his new wine friends which was why Montresor was so salty, and this important clue went completely over my head. Man, that would have been fun to think about!
Also, my professor told us that an old Mardi gras tradition was to dress up as your opposite. So since Fortunado dressed as a jester, he was actually a sophisticated and intelligent man, not just a drunk. (Also he was part of a philanthropic organization and Montresor wasn't.
I had to write an extension for the story... it was a sequel because I believe Fortunato survived and is, in fact, the one listening to ol’ Monte tell his tale as he plots to murder him... and then he murders him.
Fun fact, which you may have known, that scene in Phantom of the Opera is actually a reference to the Masque of Red Death. The Phantom is supposed to be the Red Death. There are some fun parallels there.
Phantom of the Opera: clever guy gets ripped off, loses it, throws acid on printing press (why? It's so stupid! ) the rest of the story is irrelevant, because the guy is a fool.
@@endergeek236 You know what is funny though? The paper was late and I banged it out in like a couple hours the day I handed it in! The teacher and I had a good rapport due to being in several f his classes previously so when I said I'd been having trouble he said to get him to him that day and he'd be lenient. Turned out to be some of my best work.
I'm with you there. When I hear Gothic, sometimes I think of the Visagoths who invaded part of the Roman empire. They gave us the word "Goth." That's all I know about them. And their neighbors, the Vandals, gave us the word ... vandal. For obvious reasons. Rome, if you don't want a group of people to conquer you, don't dish out what you can't eat.
At my cousins wedding there was an underground basement Stone area that reminded me of a catacomb, and that is the place they had the alcohol No one but me thought/knew of the cask of amontillado
Poe's prose is S-tier. It's so unbelievably good, everything he wrote has this subtle genius to the way the words flow. He was a master of using sound to create effect. Every time I read one of his stories I end up reading it out loud, and the long meandering melodic sentences structures never lose me even for a second, despite their constant little asides and minute digressions. Reading Poe's work is a constant delight.
Fun fact: "The Cask of Amontillado" is based on a true story involving an army general who murdered one of his troops for winning a card game and was then sealed in a wall by the rest of his troops. Or so my 9th grade Lit book told me...
You and I must have read the same book, I recall hearing it was an Italian story that got passed down over the years though and Poe came across it while in the Army.
0:40-0:44 The term Gothic really does excites feelings of happiness for the dark Misty streets of an England night, being a new to fear in the night, it was always fun hunting during the night. Oh, the memories of my youth.
Gothic was roaming through the vine yards of france at night, meeting with my love, at midnight, as we danced in the moonlight, our hands interlocked. Our love was forbidden, in two different ways, I was a vampire, young, barely even turned with a taste for wine and lust for blood, and he was a beautiful dryad of the grape vines, and oh how beautiful he was. He was like me, we both admired the night, but for much different reasons, he for the fact that the moon was beautiful, and me for the fact that i could see him. However, when we had agreed to run off together, a pillager had ransacked the vine yards, burning it down, and I never saw him again...
when I think of gothic I think of the good old days where I fell down on the cobbled road. my mother saw me and patched me up quite well. I remember the next day I watched my mother be tied to a stake and burned alive. ah, the good old old days of my childhood
I faintly remember reading a Scooby Doo comic called "The Telltale Heart" and another one "The Raven". Yup, there are Scooby Doo comics inspired by Poe's work.
You know the taletell heart is one of my favorites since at the beginning the guy is talking about both his hearing and his sanity, even talking about how the old man has never wronged him in any way and has actually been pretty good to him for most of his life so that way you really get an idea of just how unstable this guy is, especially since he did because of a creepy eye
Mike Kapunan Right! Who then later build said French cathedrals and get called Goths again by Italian hipsters who missed the good ol' Roman days, and then even more hippier-than-thou hipsters write a bunch of literature calling themselves Gothic because of the long-gone period, who later on later on inspire a new genre of music derived from Punk, which itself births a whole new style of fashion. ...And a dude kills somebody and everyone thinks they're all homicidal cultists. ...In case anyone wonders how it's all connected. I'd fact check that though. (But don't actually, because we're really a society of Vampires trying to bring back the good ol' Gothic days by enlisting the youth into our blood pack through good music, and slowly turn this New World into the dark romantic European streets that have long since been paved over)
I remember in my 10th grade debate class, we read the telltale heart and we were tasked with writing an argument as if we were the murderer's LAWYER attempting to get him absolved of charges. it was a weird class.
We did something similar in my 8th grade english class. Half of us were prosecutors and the other half of us tried to prove he was innocent due to insanity.
I read the Tell Tale Heart in eighth grade and we made so many jokes about because- just imagine- the narrator is all twitchy and covered in blood when he answers the door. And he just goes on like its no big deal, like "yes, come in, would you like *twitch* some tea? Oh yes this old man is... On vacation. *twitch twitch*
I just read "The Tell Tale Heart" in school. I had to write the ending to it. I also had to name the narrator. I named him Henry Victor Campbell. Also, I said, in my story, that the old man was his dad.
I’m doing a literary analysis on The Masque of the Red Death and that bit about the clock symbolizing the inevitability of death helped me sooo much because my assigned theme is “Through plot development, how does Poe deliver his message that death cannot be out manuevered.”
KittyKatKayla :3 ... I did one back in the day on the symbolism in The Cask of Amontillado specifically a it relates to Freemasons.... Also, For another really fun way to experience Poe without all the reading.... Listen to the Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)..... Extra points if you listen to it on vinyl!!
mine would be the one where talks about experiencing someone talking about there last moments before dying (I can't remember what it was called). to a lot people he considered a Gothic horror writer, to some a mystery writer, but to me he is considered a romantic fatalist with dark overtones. the only story I've read from him that I didn't like was the golden bug, mostly because it was just racist, not in hateful way, but in weird comedic way.
pish posh WAIT IS IT THAT STORY where the protagonist is a guy which often gets drunk and one day he kills his black cat then he finds an identical one in a pub (except for one neck white line..) and brings him home and one drunken day he kills his own wife and buries her body behind a wall? Then the cops arrive and he shows them the house even knocking on the wall because he was so confident and the cat (who had mysteriously disappeared) meowed from the other side, making the cops find the hidden corpse??? (Also the house burns down at some point and everything falls except a wall/chimney wall where there is a sort image of a cat) Because we read that story in middle school and I had NIGHTMARES FOR MONTHS, *I COULDN'T SLEEP FOR THE LIFE OF ME* and I never found out where the story was from (until now, maybe??).. it's wonderfully written, a masterpiece, really. And for that reason it TERRIFIED ME TO DEATH
I am a simple man. I see a new video, I freack out and tell all of my friends, I watch the video 5 times at least, and last but not least I press like. (keep it up guys, your chanel and your videos ROCK!)
Poofbomb - Minecraft & More! A scientist named Dr. Jekyll who invents a potion (I believe) to cure himself of all his bad characteristics to be perfect and fit into the high standards of the old English society. While it does work in a way, his dark side doesn't just disappear, it manifests itself in form of Mr. Hyde who goes around the streets of London (I think it played in London) and kills people and shit.
Someone at the masquerade ball: "Do you guys think its the best idea to be throwing a party during quarantine?" *sees the guy dressed all in red* SatMB: "Yup, I think its time for me to leave."
I mean if they didn't have a sexual relationship and from what I heard they were decently happy, the I guess it's okay. However I still find it exceptionally creepy. For one thing he did have an infatuation with her, even writing elaborate love letters. Also if it was strictly a matter of guardianship, why didn't he just adopt her? Also I wouldn't trust the wellbeing of a young girl to an alcoholic who had a gambling problem that caused him to live the rest of his life in debt. I mean I still consider Edgar Allen Poe one of the most influential American and Gothic writers in history and I don't even think it was really that bad. However this is still kind of uncomfortable.
I got to read “The Cask of Amontillado” in my English class recently, and it’s probably one of my favorite short stories that we’ve read so far. Don’t get me wrong, Red did a spot-on summary of it, and I’ve watched this video enough times to know the story by heart beforehand, but i still had that mystic wonder you typically have when reading or watching something for the very first time. It’s quite a good and eerie short story, and the summary doesn’t do it enough justice (not hating, btw, just wanna make that clear), and I highly recommend reading it!
There are actually 3 deathtraps in The Pit and the Pendulum. 1. The slime on the smooth floor intended to cause the narrator to stumble and slip blindly into the pit. 2. The blade of the pendulum descending toward the narrator’s heart as he is strapped down. 3. The walls heat up and close in to force him into the pit.
I’ve first read Tell-Tale heart, house of usher, gold bug, and cask of amontillado in 3rd grade. And I loved em. But then I read it again in grade 7, then I stopped being a psychopath.
Poe: hey im actually having a good time right no-
Tuberculosis: not so fast, buckeroo
:(
Ronan K. Tuberculosis: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Ronan K. He got the Arthur Morgan treatment
He actually died from syphilis lmfaooo which is even worse!
@@bigpigeon2384 Why, why did you need to make me cry right now. I was having a good day, but now I'm sad.
"Dude!"
"DUDE, INDEED!"
That never gets old. :D
It's actually,
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESOR!"
"Yes, for the love of god."
@@Saint_veele46 Yes, we're all aware--but this is a humorous summary, not an exact retelling.
I want that on a shirt
DUDE INDEED
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Me listening to The Mask of Red Death in 2020: Wow, it’s almost like throwing a big party during a plague is a bad idea.
And at least wear a mask while doing so
October 2020 update to this gag: It's almost like ignoring a plague and pretending it will magically get better might come around to bite you in the respiratory system.
@@newsystembad Or in Poe’s story, your sweat glands
And on that note, did you know that the (Soon to be Ex-)President just went ahead with this year's large Christmas party despite Covid running rampant in the White house for the past month?
@@newsystembad Don't be that guy. You don't have to like the guy, but wishing harm on them is crossing the line.
I always thought the reason Prospero and his party goers were mad at the stranger in red was because they went to all the effort of walling themselves into Prospero's Party Palace to be able to pretend the Red Death wasn't happening and someone shows up dressed as a Red Death victim. So, y'know, buzzkill.
Warm regards.
Well the intruder WAS the red death. The Party goers just refused to admit and believe it was happening to everyone, closed off doors or not. Thats the reason for the character in red, death was coming for all of them eventually, but because they refused to acknowledge their pandemic WAS happening they all died at that party.
@@spamachuchan8824 True. I was just referring to what the party-goers are thinking when they first notice the figure. Things don't start getting weird until Prince Prospero orders the person unmasked and everybody (Prospero himself included) is too creeped out to actually do anything. And even then, they still think they're dealing with a person in a transgressive costume right up until they yank it off and find no one behind the mask.
It's definitely intended to symbolize that ignoring a problem not only doesn't solve it but also leaves you vulnerable to the consequences.
Yeah, I think the fact that the intruder was dressed as the corpse of someone who died of the red death, not just some random red robe, is kind of an important detail
Tbh I’m surprised Red didn’t talk about the class themes in mask of the red death
...and there blue has remained for 50 years.
Still making Poe puns, a hideous undead mockery of all that is good. Poor Red.
@@janerecluse4344 Poe Red indeed.
Luckily, he's a history nerd, which means he's immortal.
_In pace requiescat!_
@@adam7108 eyyyyyy! Now you're chained up and blocked in too xD, worth it!
When I read 'The Telltale Heart' I thought that the beating sound he heard was actually his own heart, and that the more he worried about it the louder it got and the more he was driven crazy by it, thinking that it was the old man's heart. I don't know if it was meant that way, but that was my interpretation, and I thought it was poetic that his own stress and guilt about murdering this dude was his undoing.
Maximus The Dude that's actually intresting.
+Maximus The Dude
I'm pretty sure that is the point of the story. But I could be wrong.
I wrote an extended ending for a school project in 8th grade. But I felt like Poe ended it well. So I tried to stick with his style and then prolonged the madness a bit. And then, plot twist, it turns out the reader is coming from the point of view of a mental health professional interviewing him, to which he again concludes that he is not mad, why would you think that, and freaks out.
Good insight. I’m sad I never thought of that.
Maximus The Dude that's what I thought
When someone says gothic I always imagine a girl in a goth lolita dress, Wednesday Addams, and Dracula all standing in the same room very awkwardly staring at each other.
and after a time only Wednesday exits the room
Give that room a vaulted ceiling, large windows, arches, a gothic metal band, and a Visigoth and you’ve got mine.
Depending on the anime interpretation those three might look like identical triplets.
that would be my definition of gothic
@@thatman8562 sit
Don't forget the gargoyles and flying buttresses!
“For the love of God, Montresor!”
“”Yes, for the love of God.”
Translation:
“DUDE?!”
“Dude indeed!”
Kaila Y
Fortunato: “bruh”
Montresor: “bruh indeed”
Man how the times have changed
"Fuck you!"
"Yep, fuck me."
@@flamango4660
😳
Bruh?! Fr?!
Bruh. Fr.
I interpreted the old mans heart beat after he died as the “protagonists” heart beat, but him being insane, he believed it was the old mans heart in the floorboards
Me too.
Or the narrator's insanity, given his obsession with the old man's eye.
I always saw it as his guilt manifesting trough his senses.
Tbh I thought it meant that the house was alive and that killing the old man made it beat furiously with hatred until he confessed his sins
I’ve heard some reader theories that the narrator associates the sound of the old man’s heart with his own. I subscribe to his mind completely snapping due to his guilty conscience; after all he says he didn’t hate the old man but was paranoid of the false eye worn by the victim
“Hap-Poe Halloween!”
“And that’s why I killed him, your honor”
"Perfectly sane, as you can see."
Not guilty.
Your honor, you dont decide that
Overruled
Judge: ....
Judge: Sounds legit
Anxious? Yes very anxious but why do you call me mad? Mad men know nothing.
And no one will convict
I just imagine a vampire telling his grandkids of the good ol days when he was younger and old london knew to fear him
Now *there's* a short story I'd like to see published-- and read-- if it was done properly. : )
@@BennyLlama39 same!!!
I want to like but you have 469 likes.
and now everyone thinks hes really sexy
@@Mario_432 that's why he has grandkids
I love the fact that every once in a while, Red drops the "normal human person" facade and shows her "DEMON SORCERESS QUEEN OF THE MONSTERS LURKING IN THE DARK" real face that everyone knows and love. I love you, your Highness
You gotta take your wild side out for walkies now & then or they get upset.
@@VivaLaDnDLogs Just look at Dr. Jekyll
Aces just be like that
mczr
Your wish is our command queen
"When a conveniently placed French Army comes in to save him"
*Wait what how did they get here where is the plot behind this twist.*
its not like France and Spain was never at war or anything
@Hetahetalia but its right there in thr Book!
@Hetahetalia Seems perfectly Legit
@Hetahetalia That's not as hard as you think.
@Hetahetalia Why waste money when you have slave labor?
“Strategic dismemberment”
Those are two words that were never meant to be put in the same sentence.
Sounds like Doom Guy tearing up a demon tbh
You have never played a Dead Space game then.
I know I'm late but isn't this an alternative way to say "amputation surgery"?
Revoltine
I believe surgical amputation is good
@@warlynx5644
Thanks. English is hard.
I love Poe and Lovecraft because both of them are living personifications of their writing. Poe is dark and depressing and Lovecraft is scared of the unknown. AKA everything outside of his home village
Lovecraft was racist as hell and afraid of non-white people
@@whitneymouse actually Lovecraft hated the Irish and Welsh as well
Also love craft is just racist
@@Crazh457 Den he, would have DEFINITELY, hated me🤣👿😂👼🏻🤣😈👼🏻😂😗😗👁️
@@Crazh457 sadly, it seems that counts as “the unknown”. I get that humans get a bit unnerved by things that they don’t completely understand, but this guy was just outrageous in comparison.
At least we got some interesting mythos (the not-problematic parts, at least) out of it.
Regarding Fortunado's silence at the end of that story, he apparently had a really bad cough, probably had asthma or something, and apparently the tomb in which he would be killed was really suffocating. In the sense that literally he died due to suffocation just as Montresor was finishing up.
That is also the why Montresor was so huffy, because he didn't get the death he wanted for Fortunado.
Now that I can remember it, I think that's a great detail to have in the story. A great way of showing that no matter how perfectly a revenge seems to be going, or how gleefully you feel seeing it through, at the end you're left feeling empty. No revenge, no matter how perfect, is really worth it in the end.
@@VivaLaDnDLogs How incredibly uplifting and not at all depressing for a totally not murderer like me
That is why you check their allergies before settling on how you're going to kill someone, as that can lead to them dying because you ate a pb&j before going up to talk to them.
@@shadowsnake5133 Seriously, he's known the guy for years. You'd think he'd account for it.
I think Fortunado had a bad cold, one that Montressor observed when he started to set his plan into action
My English teacher has a picture of Edgar Allen Poe up on her wall with the caption
“i’m a just a poe boy nobody loves me”
“he’s just a poe boy from a poe family”
maybemegumi // I think I love your teacher
I want a copy
Bros before Poes
My teacher has the same poster, lmao
Gator poe-ster...you mean?
I just really love how The Spanish Inquisition was a feared juggernaut until Monty Python turned them into a joke and meme, so that larger than life , goliath like fear factor was just gone
only Monty Python
And Mel Brooks to a lesser extent. When I think of the Inquisition, I think of their musical number in History of the World Part I. And Monty Python too, of course.
Who would have expected that?
@@SmoothTeeVee🎶The Inquisiiiiition
What a show🎶
Spanish Inquisition actually required evidence and court procedure, and often sentenced people to penances instead of burning (although we'd mostly consider having to wear a symbol marking you as a heretic to be "cruel and unusual"). They were ambivalent about torture as an effective method of interrogation, too. Now, the Roman inquisition, they were a very different story...
NO ONE EVER EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
you beat me to it
LOL
bet you didn't expect the imperial inquisition?
Monty Python
When my room mate plays dragon age inquisition as an elf I get to hear her say "No one expects the Dalish inquisition" any time she does something cool...
Legends say Gregory is still stuck behind a certain wall in a cellar, waiting for a bottle of Amontillado.
*cough cough “Jekyll and Hyde and or Dorian Gray please.” Cough*
Ooooh, defiantly Jekyll and Hyde
Oh my yes!! Dorian Grey!!
Dorian! Dorian! Dorian!
Jekyll and hyde!!
DORIAN GREY AND JEKYLL AND HYDE AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS
"conveniently placed French army" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lafayette had really good timing.
he's just taking this horse by the reigns making redcoats redder with bloodstains
jackspecidey and don't you know that he's never gonna stop until he makes them drop or burns them up and scatters their remains
watch him engaging,escapeing,enraging,he's out
He goes back to France for more funds...
I am finding a lot of irony in this. when I was in high school, there were a lot of emo/goth kids like the ratio was about one non-goth kid out of 10. the teachers were all going nuts about it, saying that they don't know why we turned out this way. but in many of the English, literature, and theatre arts classes there was a treasure trove of tragedies, dark literature and a hefty helping of Edgar Allan Poe for homework every other day. If you had been exposed to the large amount of depressing subjects such as this and have algebra right after, you be crossing over to the dark side too.
Teragram38 Crows interesting
Lies
Teragram38 Crows a
We got to analysis Slyitha Plath for a term, newer but dower, and then write a sonnet after which she made most of us go to the school counsellor, what did she think was going to happen
You mean mallgawfs who listen to Marylin Manson and those shoddy nu metül bands, don't you? I am kinda betting you went to high school after the 00s, since that was the only time when you had way too many kids claiming they were now goth, but couldn't even name a single proper gothic rock, post-punk or darkwave song. Actual -excuse me for my elitism, but it's true- goths weren't really widespread in schools after the 80s, when the goth subculture (yes, subculture, not "fashion movement") had its peak popularity. Being into goth has less to do with reading Poe and gothic novels (something anyone can enjoy, regardless of their mood and depression btw isn't a mood, it's a serious illness) and being part of some kind of nebulous dark side than it was, traditionally in the 80s and first half of the 90s at least, about listening to gloomy, introspective post-punk music á la Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees or the Virgin Prunes and dressing up in pointy boots, too much fishnet and donning a shitton of hairspray onto the head to build ridiculous big hair nests. Also emo is something entirely different.
Ofc lots of kids go through some edgy phase where they hop on to everything that looks cool to them, without really giving a shit about what it means in terms of music, history, etc because puberty makes them feel like they don't belong and hopping on some bandwagon gives them the allusion of belonging. That said, Poe and dark literature likely didn't turn students into try hard goffs. Hormones did. hence you get so many people during the age 12-20 shifting through all subcultures and hobbies you can name, from punk to hippie to vegan and prideful gamer or self-called world's next super models and they change that every week.
Crazy person:I’m not crazy I’m just really smart
Red:Sure, and Dante loves Greece.
?
@@Valery0p5 Dante have an absolutely HATE BONER against Greece. He put most Heroes in circles of hell in his Dante's Inferno
Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favorite poets so I wanted to say that for “The Masque of the Red Death” it was actually a pitch black room with a stained glass window which casked a red glow.
Devil in the details.
The Mask of Red Death hits different during a pandemic where people are still having parties
Except COVID isn't nearly as dangerous as old plagues were, either by infection rate or casualties. I honestly don't see the reason for the fear of it outside of China benefitting and the media getting attention
@@DavidbarZeus1 Yes, but it's still a virus. That means it can mutate, and possibly cause a LOT of problems. It can develop more serious symptoms, and kill off literally every single elder person on planet earth which is... about 962 million people.
@@DavidbarZeus1 There was never supposed to be fear of Covid, just caution, pragmatism and responsible choices to protect the vulnerable. Apparently though, that was far too much to ask in some of the world's most populous nations.
@@DavidbarZeus1 how on earth does china benefit from people being afraid of covid
@@esobelisk3110 It benefits from people who are supporting China despite them being responsible for the disease
"For the love of God, Montressor!"
"Yes," I said, "For the love of God."
I _adore_ Cask of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart.
telltale heart is a good one.
Or, in Red's words:
"Dude?!?!?!"
*"DUDE INDEED"*
I really like 'The Black Cat' and 'Annabel Lee.'
I like The Raven because it's more heartbreaking than creepy. Also ravens are awesome.
Who would have thought I'd find a techpriest here
guy: has a slightly unsettling eye
no one:
absolutely no one:
not a soul:
Tell tale heart narrator guy and Victor Frankenstein: WhElP...
Sans: Nope nope nope
Your gonna have a bad time
IF IT BEATS
WAIT WHY THE FUCK IS UNDERTALE BEING QUOTED
But it was a color unlike any s
In Masque of the Red Death, prospero is mad at the Red Death because he thought the costume was a severely inappropriate joke about the plague outside, which Prospero wants all the nobles to not think about.
The red death is actually ebola
Actually, it's Tuberculosis
also each of the colors of the rooms mean something. I forgot what tho. xD
I think I know what the red room means... Love!
If he thought being dressed in red was a joke to the plague and that he didn't want anyone to think about it, why did he have a red room?
"You work to preserve your friendship because when all is said and done nothing on this Earth is more satisfying than looking into their eyes one day and seeing the hope drain from their face and in one fell swoop you *destroy them and all they hold dear* ."
Best quote in this entire video XD
Also, you need a merch store with a cup that says "Worlds Best Murder Victim" on it and a backpack or just a sac that says "Bag o' Bit's" on it. I would definatley buy that.
I strive to climb the ranks of dead people, and be the best murder victim I can possibly be! I spend almost all my time practicing.
Delta the Comic 666th like
The "Bag o' Bits" item might have policemen very interested in your comings-and goings.
I want to like, but it's at 777....
Wait a minute. So the squeaky boots from spongebob squarepants was a reference to the telltale heart?
+ClockworkMan13 Yep. Precisely.
O.O oh ....my... god...
Childhood ruined
ClockworkMan13 HOLY SHIT!
Yep!
When did Spongebob get so deep? D:
The reason why fortunato wasnt speaking to montresor is because he was dying from his cough and montresor was acting kind of pissed that he died because at the beggining of the book he said something like revenge is only worthwhile if your victim knows the full length of their punishment. Fortunato died of his cough and not from starvation which made Montresor angry. ( that is if he even realized he was already dead)
One of my writing classes actually had us come up with a reason why Montressor killed his "buddy."
Financial ruin from Fortunato's advice was mine.
Bthsr71 Another theory is because Montressor was a Freemason. The symbolism in the story is pretty dead on for it
Nah mate it's that fortunato chews with his mouth open
@@Actually_Alice_Orchid other guy is completely justified in my eyes
Floyd Kavanagh In that case I would've walled him too tbh
He puts pineapple on pizza.
When are you gonna tell us about The Raven? I'm guessing... nevermore?
-_-
Nice
Why
@@fabrizeantonio4425 Why not
That's not what nevermore means, nevermore means specifically never _again_ and also that is one of the most known poems by Edgar Allen Poe, so tons of other people already did a video on it. Also *YES* I know it's a joke, it's a creative/funny joke. I just wanted you to know.
Thinking back on it, one thing I love about "The Cask of Amontillado" leaving out the actual motive for Montresor's murder of Fortunato (apart from how he inflicted "a thousand injuries" but the straw that broke the camel's back was "when he ventured upon insult") is that the reader can basically write in whatever _they_ want, depending on how sympathetic they feel towards Montresor. Whereas if Poe had picked some specific act or acts, different audience members would have had different opinions of the story based on how awful or how nominal they view the act. One person's justifiable reason for sealing a dude up in a wall in a wine cellar is, after all, a different person's no big deal. (That Red, in the video, seems to make the opposite assumption--that Montresor is ultimately a murderous nut--is, I think, a product of modern times, in which we really don't see a few insults as a good reason to go bang away at each other with pistols at dawn in a "duel of honor," still not extinguished behavior in Poe's day. So the mere fact that Montresor is committing revenge-murder is pretty well enough to condemn him by our standards.)
That's "Let the punishment fit the crime" sort of thinking. Logical and measured.
That's not Poe. Also, it's not insane.
I think it's more of a case of "I have a punishment and a victim. What crime can I accuse him of... Oh, I'll think of something on my way down there."
Poe had more interest in "unreliable narrators" than dueling and insults upon one's honor.
Duels of honor were rarely (intentionally) fatal. They usually lasted until either first blood, which makes them akin to modern fencing, or one of the parties either can’t or otherwise won’t fight, making it akin to every other combat sport.
The idea that was generally less “I will slaughter you on a leveled playing field, so that I can’t be tried for murder,” and more “I will let you, a man who recently expressed distaste for me, swing a deadly weapon at me in order to prove how wrong you are.”
I remember writing a modern version of this for school. I had the protagonist lure her rapist boyfriend into the steam tunnels, drug him, then castrate him.
I remember my literature textbook mentioning that The Cask of Amontillado is actually based on a old Legend from when Poe was in the army. Apparently there was a really nasty drill sergeant that got buried underneath the foundations of the fort where he was stationed at.
There’s basically no crime that would warrant walling someone up in complete darkness to kill them. There isn’t a whole lot of “well, maybe he was justified” when you’re doing what would be just about the worst punishment you could use on someone. The guy was very likely overreacting, with practically no chance of him not being crazy in some capacity.
"Fred opts to take another nap--FOCUS GODDAMMIT!"
I died! XD
Fred and Dante- the only two members of the Excessive Fainting in Literature for Men Club.
We read The Tell-Tale Heart in 8th grade. Because you know, learning sbout a psycho killing some poor old man is always a good to story tell to a bunch of 13/14 year olds.
better than hearing a disjointed version through the Simpsons when you were a kid
We watched that version too. XD
Same here. It's some creepy stuff.
Same dude!
Then we read Cask of Amontillado during eighth and ninth grade. I loved it!
I'm reading tell tale heart as an assignment now !! I'm only in the 7th grade
I think that part of Moana at the end of “You’re Welcome” where Maui shuts Moana in a cave after making a song and dance and giving her fruit might be a reference to the Cask of Amontillado
I always thought the reason Prospero and his party goers were mad at the stranger in red was because they went to all the effort of walling themselves into Prospero's Party Palace to be able to pretend the Red Death wasn't happening and someone shows up dressed as a Red Death victim. So, y'know, buzzkill.
Oh you mean when he pulled a reverse Jesus?
@@demonspawn5797 OH MY GOD I CAN'T-
@@williamreynolds1522 why did you steal a top comment, and paste it into a random reply.
Aaaaaaaaaa
Now I cannot unsee it.
Thank you or curse you, I am not completely sure which
I like how he comes out of the box to kill the old man. Nice metal gear solid reference red lmao
Pretty sure the same reference is in the Iliad video
It is.
1:19 has strong "I'm not Toph, I'm Melon Lord! Mwahahahaa!" sorta vibes.
Ha I get it.
Careful Red. 'You stay in that Fallen Angel costume to long and you might attract *unwanted* attention...
(I'm looking squarely at you, Sexy Satan.)
Lyncanskull X That would be pretty steamy. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
John Laurens' Turtle
But for the love of f&ck:
*DO.*
*NOT.*
*ANINMATE*
*IT!!!*
Who said John Laurens was a Washing Machine???
C Jemmeson I lost a bet and now George Washington is my owner now. But as a bit of revenge I named my self: Whore Gay Washing Machine's Turtle.
Anybody got any ideas about this year's Halloween special? I'm betting on Frankenstein.
Yeah, "The Cask of Amontillado" is pretty much the only horror story I've read that actually gave me nightmares. Just the thought of a friend or family member doing that to me terrified me. =/ That story is just messed up. T^T Poe was a genius.
The Tell-Tale Heart did that for me (who hasn't trembled at every literal bump in the night like the poor old man?!). The Raven creeped me out about as much!
Meghan Kilroy The fall of the house of usher did it for me. As well as the Masque of Red Death.
I read that story in one of my English classes forever ago and completely fell in love with it. Its still my favorite Poe story. What's really cool is that while Fortunato was being bricked in by what he though was his "bestie", the fumes coming off of the mixture used to seal and stack the bricks were actually slowly killing Fortunato, which is why he doesn't answer Montresor. Fortunato is already dead, thus robbing Montresor of the slow, hunger inducing death that he had wanted. God, isn't it perfect?
Its my fav story of all of them.
I found the Tell-tale Heart hilarious, it was the Black Cat that freaked me out
Maybe his last name was Allen Paul, but while he was in school, he'd show his teachers his work and they'd say, "Thank you Allen P-oh, that's morbid."
No. His birth name was Edgar Allan he took the name Poe to honnor his adopted father figure. His parents died and left him w/ Mr Poe and his wife who took him in and raised him
@@Jellied_Slime_Games Actually, it was Edgar Poe. The name Allan came from his foster parents John and Frances Allan. Due to issues between Poe and his foster father, including financial, he went by Edgar A. Poe for most of his career.
@@Amy-oo7mm oh... thanks for clearing that up!
@@Jellied_Slime_Games No problem, I was kind of obsessed with Poe back in elementary school. That's perfectly normal, right... not creepy or anything...? *nervous cough
@@Amy-oo7mm nah, not creepy at all! i really like his works too!
7:56
Am i the only one who loves the “worlds best murder victim” mug.
I love it too.
Maybe Red will send it to her favorite fans!
The Telltale Heart narrator is great. Nothing beats the dramatic irony of a blatantly deranged narrator insisting he is NOT AT ALL INSANE. Very fascinating. And hilarious. (To me, at least. Is that weird?)
Ah yes, that was certainly the best part of the whole short story, just how clearly and utterly insane the narrator was. It was brilliant.
"i heard all things in the heavens and the earth. i heard many things in hell." the narrator is completely off his rocker
Alan Maslowski We actually analysed the narrator on English class. He was described as an unreliable narrator whose view couldn't be taken seriously. It is also very funny how the guy remotely keeps his insanity under control until he talks himself into it. If he didn't have such an abrasive inner monologue then he would have gotten off scot-free
I think my favorite part is when he's like "Dude, you should've seen how careful I was the whole time I was murdering that old man! If you'd seen it, you'd *totally* agree I couldn't possibly be insane."
And Gregory was never heard from again
Is... is that his real name? It couldn't be
Gregory: Do I?!
Any other rational person in that situation: ruclips.net/video/8QxIIz1yEsA/видео.html
Gregory is ... nevermore.
Hi there Gregory. Mesa Jar Jar Binks
At least he is now a fancy skeleton.
7:39 Well duh, that's why I always make sure to tell people I see in person that I'm not crazy every time I see them. That way they know I'm not crazy.
8:21 Classic mistake. You must have missed the part of the poem where he said he wasn't crazy. That clearly establishes he's not crazy.
I agree. It's exactly the other way round. He was the only sane person in a world of crazy people. And they all conspired to make him crazy too.
*GERMAN LOGIC IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!*
Of course. I dunno how she messed that one up.
Is this a joke?
@@verbfrombonsai8852 Pfft, naahhhhhh how'd you get thaaat ideaa?
I remember reading the tell tale heart in middle school and being fascinated about the idea of somebody being so nervous they can hear their own heartbeat and is so insane that they believe it's the heartbeat of their victim. Lol.
Lv 1 Edgar Allen Poe
Vs
Lv 100 fan fiction writer
Edgar wins
Edgar has the power of confirmed cannon. Of course he wins
@@tarabarden7535 exactly
@@tarabarden7535 He wins for being the original author, but we've all read that one fanfiction that was truly better than the original work.
TheNamelessName - I’m gonna call myself out and say most warrior cats fanfics, like, ever. At least most of them are better than the 2nd arc...
Hey Gregory, want me to show you where I keep my Amontillado
*run Blue, run!*
But he didn't!
gReGoRy
Run and get some amontillado before it runs out!
And there Gregory stays in Red's dorm room for the next 50 years chained to his computer and desk writing an essay never to be handed in....
Yes
The perv in me wants me to point out that a lot of guys wouldn't mind being tied up in a girls bedroom
We know Blue’s real name, I wonder what red’s is?
brennamarie same
@@brenna_marie same
Something I’ve come up with is the following:
In Tale Tell Heart, the heart the insane man hears in the floorboard is actually the man’s own heart, since subconsciously, the man is guilty and nervous of being caught. Hearing your own heartbeat in stories means your experiencing an extreme emotion, typically fear.
The man mistakes it for the old man’s heart in the floorboards, and so he confesses, which in turn stops the loud beating of his heart since the tension within his mind and body have dispersed-he is no longer nervous about being caught since he has let that go
These are my thoughts, anyway.
OMG RED DEATH!
When I was in fifth grade, my drama class did a play to that! I, of course being the theatre brat I am, was the Red Death.
I had a cool mask and a cape.
lol
damn, the book is much different than the script...shit....
in the script Prospero is the last to die, and everytime the clock bongs they move into the next room. A guest dies everytime they switch rooms. I wooshed around going "I am the RED DEATH! WHAHAHAHAH!!" then swishing my cape over people's faces....
Blu Luna Rue Ah yes, of course a school would allow grade schoolers have a play about The Red Death. And of course you would be The Red Death, you are a self proclaimed theater brat, after all. Bravo to you.
Blu Luna Rue We did the Raven in Sixth Grade. We needed more characters so they used my version of the poem not gonna say it though its really stupid. I was the raven. :p
What school on this planet thinks that the Red Death is appropriate for 5th graders!?
I know, right? Lol. Thanks. It was really bad, though XD
I had to write short prequel to The Cask of Amontillado as an english assignment in high school. I wrote based off context clues that Montresor hated Fortunado because he insulted and disrespected his recently dishonored family (Got an A+ :D )
Yay I got that too. I think even his own family was responsible.
I wasn't very social(still not) but it gave me nightmares for days when I had to read it in 3rd grade. Poe, the master of horror
Something I found out a while back after I finished my English II class in highschool (in which I got to write fanfiction about the two as kids, which would have been even more awesome if I knew this tidbit) was that Fortunato, a self-proclaimed wine snob, didn't know amontillado was a real type of wine. Amontillado is not only real, but predates the story, proving it wasn't defictionalization.
Fortunato has no idea what he's talking about and is acting like a know-it-all.
I wrote a fanfic where he actually did know a thing or two, but the two had grown up poor together and when they were making it big, Fortunato managed to get the girl Montresor was also interested in and was trying to distance himself from him to look cool in front of his new wine friends which was why Montresor was so salty, and this important clue went completely over my head.
Man, that would have been fun to think about!
Also, my professor told us that an old Mardi gras tradition was to dress up as your opposite. So since Fortunado dressed as a jester, he was actually a sophisticated and intelligent man, not just a drunk. (Also he was part of a philanthropic organization and Montresor wasn't.
I had to write an extension for the story... it was a sequel because I believe Fortunato survived and is, in fact, the one listening to ol’ Monte tell his tale as he plots to murder him... and then he murders him.
Fun fact, which you may have known, that scene in Phantom of the Opera is actually a reference to the Masque of Red Death. The Phantom is supposed to be the Red Death. There are some fun parallels there.
I kinda figured that
Yea it was a lot more clear in the novel.
Um...You are half right. Death as a personification is actually a quite common Motif.
Phantom of the Opera: clever guy gets ripped off, loses it, throws acid on printing press (why? It's so stupid! ) the rest of the story is irrelevant, because the guy is a fool.
yaSSS someone NotICed
"if you hear the word 'gothic' you'll probably think of -"
Me: Gothic architecture
Red: lists examples based on age
Me: huh
I seem to have found a fellow undead freak.
I thought the same. 😂
True OG's remember the nomadic raider tribes from north of the Danube
Gothic art, gothic architecture, the goths, or... just Edgar Allen Poe.
I have found my people
5:35 I read Othello once. Wrote a paper on how the tragedy was that no one in it could own up to their bullshit. Got an A+.
Please tell me you used that exact phrasing.
@@endergeek236 Had to be more in deptch and less crass for a college course I'm afraid.
@@athroughzdude Coward.
Jk, I'm glad your essay was received well.
@@endergeek236 You know what is funny though? The paper was late and I banged it out in like a couple hours the day I handed it in!
The teacher and I had a good rapport due to being in several f his classes previously so when I said I'd been having trouble he said to get him to him that day and he'd be lenient.
Turned out to be some of my best work.
Or if your a massive history nerd when you hear Gothic you think the European building style.
Mornathel
NEERRRRRRRRDDDD!
But that's very admirable.
Aubrey Kosch thank you for the compliment!
I'm with you there. When I hear Gothic, sometimes I think of the Visagoths who invaded part of the Roman empire. They gave us the word "Goth."
That's all I know about them.
And their neighbors, the Vandals, gave us the word ... vandal. For obvious reasons.
Rome, if you don't want a group of people to conquer you, don't dish out what you can't eat.
Yeah lol
I'm guilty. XD
At my cousins wedding there was an underground basement Stone area that reminded me of a catacomb, and that is the place they had the alcohol
No one but me thought/knew of the cask of amontillado
Poe's prose is S-tier. It's so unbelievably good, everything he wrote has this subtle genius to the way the words flow. He was a master of using sound to create effect. Every time I read one of his stories I end up reading it out loud, and the long meandering melodic sentences structures never lose me even for a second, despite their constant little asides and minute digressions.
Reading Poe's work is a constant delight.
Fun fact: "The Cask of Amontillado" is based on a true story involving an army general who murdered one of his troops for winning a card game and was then sealed in a wall by the rest of his troops. Or so my 9th grade Lit book told me...
You and I must have read the same book, I recall hearing it was an Italian story that got passed down over the years though and Poe came across it while in the Army.
I also learned this in ninth grade. :)
0:40-0:44 The term Gothic really does excites feelings of happiness for the dark Misty streets of an England night, being a new to fear in the night, it was always fun hunting during the night. Oh, the memories of my youth.
I think of the Goths tearing the gates down, burning down the city and killing all my friends and- (sobs uncontrollably)
*slowly backs away*
Gothic was roaming through the vine yards of france at night, meeting with my love, at midnight, as we danced in the moonlight, our hands interlocked. Our love was forbidden, in two different ways, I was a vampire, young, barely even turned with a taste for wine and lust for blood, and he was a beautiful dryad of the grape vines, and oh how beautiful he was. He was like me, we both admired the night, but for much different reasons, he for the fact that the moon was beautiful, and me for the fact that i could see him. However, when we had agreed to run off together, a pillager had ransacked the vine yards, burning it down, and I never saw him again...
What wrong with you guys, i just think of Gothic, as a butch of horrible murder and slaughter.
when I think of gothic I think of the good old days where I fell down on the cobbled road. my mother saw me and patched me up quite well. I remember the next day I watched my mother be tied to a stake and burned alive. ah, the good old old days of my childhood
red: “those born in or before the mid 1800s
me: *laughs in 1300 bc*
*cough* Gothic hordes *cough*
"only 5000 BC kids will remember this"
visigoths: cute
*Me sipping tea while reminiscing about the age of the dinosaurs*
i have seen the birth of the universes
9:43 Looks like that joke...
Ruffled your feathers!!!!!!
Yes
Get out.
Blue would be so proud...
If he hadn’t been sealed into the Catacombs for fifty years.
hey, want to see my amontillado?
Oh God no. That's truly awful.
Well done.
Please do hp lovecraft
Hell yeah. Lurking Terror, or the Color Out of Space.
HELL YEEAH
Not to mention 'Shadow Over Innsmouth'.
Jimmy Russels YESS
Re-Animator as well
Blue’s name is gregory .
Gregory
Greg
Reg
Red
Blue is red confirmed
I do not appreciate the reg
ORRRRRR red is a female clone of blue
No probably the other way around
No *D E F I N I T E L Y*
Fred
Red
Red has been captured by the Spanish inquisition
Brain... not... working...
A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE
Mask of red death got a whole new context
0:15 The people that sacked Rome (and had their own language)?
...
Oh. Too far back?
My mind went straight to gothic churches, so I guess I also went too far back
Which goth are you talking about though. Visigoth or Ostrogoth. You have to specify.
@@lapisleafuli1817 probably visigoths
Ostrogoths.THEY sacked rome.
That’s what I was thinking!
I faintly remember reading a Scooby Doo comic called "The Telltale Heart" and another one "The Raven". Yup, there are Scooby Doo comics inspired by Poe's work.
I'm a simple man. I hear Gothic, I sack Rome again.
Because Ostrogoths.
It's a joke.
Laugh.
Laugh you spawn of Múspellsheimr.
Laugh!
I'd rather raid the bank and leave the guards in an unconscious pile of manly confusion to wake up the moment I leave.
I feel you, Æsir bretheren, thy joke was quite the funsies.
Laughs in Alaric.
Wut?
HA
You know the taletell heart is one of my favorites since at the beginning the guy is talking about both his hearing and his sanity, even talking about how the old man has never wronged him in any way and has actually been pretty good to him for most of his life so that way you really get an idea of just how unstable this guy is, especially since he did because of a creepy eye
An obsession that led to murder, and then his guilt led to confesson.
What if whenever I think of Gothic I think of french cathedrals?
SAAAAMMMEEE!!!
What if whenever I hear gothic, I wanna ride a black unicorn on the side of an erupting volcano?
Or Barbarians destroying Rome?
Mike Kapunan
Right! Who then later build said French cathedrals and get called Goths again by Italian hipsters who missed the good ol' Roman days, and then even more hippier-than-thou hipsters write a bunch of literature calling themselves Gothic because of the long-gone period, who later on later on inspire a new genre of music derived from Punk, which itself births a whole new style of fashion. ...And a dude kills somebody and everyone thinks they're all homicidal cultists.
...In case anyone wonders how it's all connected. I'd fact check that though.
(But don't actually, because we're really a society of Vampires trying to bring back the good ol' Gothic days by enlisting the youth into our blood pack through good music, and slowly turn this New World into the dark romantic European streets that have long since been paved over)
John Fraire Not funny. My sister suffers from Vampirism.
I think we all forgot the important part of this video: Blue's name is Gregory.
Red best waifu:
1) Goth gf
2) Likes history and other nerd stuff
3) Has a great narration voice
4) Really good at art
Hope it's that platonic type, coz you know... Asexual.
vizthex plus she’s ho- *starts sweating blood and faints*
Norman Patrickson she is? Huh
@@normanpatrickson4290 all waifus are platonic
I thought history gave her hives though?
I remember in my 10th grade debate class, we read the telltale heart and we were tasked with writing an argument as if we were the murderer's LAWYER attempting to get him absolved of charges. it was a weird class.
Somewhat easy, since he’s obviously insane he wouldn’t exactly be charged with murder, just sent off to a psyche ward or something
We did something similar in my 8th grade english class. Half of us were prosecutors and the other half of us tried to prove he was innocent due to insanity.
Same here. I had to prove he was insane.
I read the Tell Tale Heart in eighth grade and we made so many jokes about because- just imagine- the narrator is all twitchy and covered in blood when he answers the door. And he just goes on like its no big deal, like "yes, come in, would you like *twitch* some tea? Oh yes this old man is... On vacation. *twitch twitch*
Also my god change your name
I just read "The Tell Tale Heart" in school. I had to write the ending to it. I also had to name the narrator. I named him Henry Victor Campbell. Also, I said, in my story, that the old man was his dad.
Oof
That’s rough
The relationship is never described except that the narrator lives with and cares for the old man. I never thought of a familial relationship.
When I was reading it in school, I named the guy that killed the old man Bob McBobberson.
I just read this story today for school.
@@burnv664 bro💀
I’m doing a literary analysis on The Masque of the Red Death and that bit about the clock symbolizing the inevitability of death helped me sooo much because my assigned theme is “Through plot development, how does Poe deliver his message that death cannot be out manuevered.”
KittyKatKayla :3 ... I did one back in the day on the symbolism in The Cask of Amontillado specifically a it relates to Freemasons.... Also, For another really fun way to experience Poe without all the reading.... Listen to the Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)..... Extra points if you listen to it on vinyl!!
I love how you called Fred “Fred” and then when Mike Flanagan adapted Poe, he named his Pit and the Pendulum character “Fredrick.” Red was right 😂
I almost had a goddamn aneurysm when I saw that
Demon Red is my favorite Red.
my favorite Poe story is "the Black Cat" even though it is almost exactly like "telltale heart"
mine would be the one where talks about experiencing someone talking about there last moments before dying (I can't remember what it was called). to a lot people he considered a Gothic horror writer, to some a mystery writer, but to me he is considered a romantic fatalist with dark overtones.
the only story I've read from him that I didn't like was the golden bug, mostly because it was just racist, not in hateful way, but in weird comedic way.
That MIGHT be *The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar*. But I'm not sure
pish posh WAIT IS IT THAT STORY where the protagonist is a guy which often gets drunk and one day he kills his black cat then he finds an identical one in a pub (except for one neck white line..) and brings him home and one drunken day he kills his own wife and buries her body behind a wall? Then the cops arrive and he shows them the house even knocking on the wall because he was so confident and the cat (who had mysteriously disappeared) meowed from the other side, making the cops find the hidden corpse??? (Also the house burns down at some point and everything falls except a wall/chimney wall where there is a sort image of a cat)
Because we read that story in middle school and I had NIGHTMARES FOR MONTHS, *I COULDN'T SLEEP FOR THE LIFE OF ME* and I never found out where the story was from (until now, maybe??).. it's wonderfully written, a masterpiece, really. And for that reason it TERRIFIED ME TO DEATH
Andrea Pazzaglia yeah that's it
pish posh *THANK YOU!!*
My friend and I have this thing, where if any of us are ever kidnapped, we tell the other that a buddy showed us the Cask of Amontillado.
Brilliant.
That was literally the best 9 minutes and 52 seconds of my life. I have nothing else to live for now, my soul is at peace
I am a simple man.
I see a new video, I freack out and tell all of my friends, I watch the video 5 times at least, and last but not least I press like.
(keep it up guys, your chanel and your videos ROCK!)
A conveniently placed FRENCH ARMY
*gasp*
I knew I wasn't the only one who thought of Les Miserables
I thought their army was a white flag.
Puppet Player omggg same
Frankenstein, Dracula and Poe? What about Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
who?
*FINALLY*
Poofbomb - Minecraft & More! A scientist named Dr. Jekyll who invents a potion (I believe) to cure himself of all his bad characteristics to be perfect and fit into the high standards of the old English society. While it does work in a way, his dark side doesn't just disappear, it manifests itself in form of Mr. Hyde who goes around the streets of London (I think it played in London) and kills people and shit.
Yes PLeASE
Someone at the masquerade ball: "Do you guys think its the best idea to be throwing a party during quarantine?"
*sees the guy dressed all in red*
SatMB: "Yup, I think its time for me to leave."
Hello.
@@bleedingmasque.6193 hi
@@michelleignatowski8393 I was there.
@@bleedingmasque.6193 cool
Edgar Allen "I marriedmy 13 year old first cousin when I was like thirty and actually the poem "Annabel Lee" is really creepy" Poe
Soupy It wasn't sexually and it coming that era for women to marry young.
Elijah Watson interesting
Elijah Watson And incest was fashionable too?
Ethan Jennings It wasn't really a sexual one it was more of Guardian relationship.
I mean if they didn't have a sexual relationship and from what I heard they were decently happy, the I guess it's okay. However I still find it exceptionally creepy. For one thing he did have an infatuation with her, even writing elaborate love letters. Also if it was strictly a matter of guardianship, why didn't he just adopt her? Also I wouldn't trust the wellbeing of a young girl to an alcoholic who had a gambling problem that caused him to live the rest of his life in debt. I mean I still consider Edgar Allen Poe one of the most influential American and Gothic writers in history and I don't even think it was really that bad. However this is still kind of uncomfortable.
Blues name is Gregory?!?!?!?
Why do you sound so sad about that, there’s no need to be feeling blue right now.
@@lorekeeper8117 oh god damn it-
i can't beleive you didn't cover "the raven"
(no hate i just love that poem so much)
Well, it's a poem. She was talking about his short stories here
Well she picked the creepiest short stories instead of the poems
Quoth the raven nevermore
Annabelle Lee is my favorite poem of his
0:51 I love how Mary Shelley's face is just like "YAY! I was included"
The Frankenstein plush tho-
''poe is one creative bastard when it comes to finding ways to torture people in increasingly improbable ways''
*WHERE IS MY PEN*
I love how it looks like Dracula just has buck teeth instead of fangs! 0:51
I caught a Monty Python reference in there.
where?
This kid didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
6:18
IS THIS WHERE THE JOKE “would you like to come taste a fine wine in my cellar” COMES FROM
I want the goth trio as a t shirt! Such cute drawings
I just came from your dramatic reading of The Telltale Heart and your different styles of presenting the exact same thing has me stunned
I got to read “The Cask of Amontillado” in my English class recently, and it’s probably one of my favorite short stories that we’ve read so far.
Don’t get me wrong, Red did a spot-on summary of it, and I’ve watched this video enough times to know the story by heart beforehand, but i still had that mystic wonder you typically have when reading or watching something for the very first time.
It’s quite a good and eerie short story, and the summary doesn’t do it enough justice (not hating, btw, just wanna make that clear), and I highly recommend reading it!
There are actually 3 deathtraps in The Pit and the Pendulum.
1. The slime on the smooth floor intended to cause the narrator to stumble and slip blindly into the pit.
2. The blade of the pendulum descending toward the narrator’s heart as he is strapped down.
3. The walls heat up and close in to force him into the pit.
I’ve first read Tell-Tale heart, house of usher, gold bug, and cask of amontillado in 3rd grade.
And I loved em.
But then I read it again in grade 7, then I stopped being a psychopath.