Nemo me impune lacessit

Montresor’s family crest and motto are both symbols of pride and revenge. His family crest is a human foot crushing a serpent whose fangs are imbedded in it’s heal. The serpent represents Fortunato’s insults and the foot crushing it represents Montresor’s act of vengeance. His family motto “nemo me impune lacessit” basically means that no one shall harm me without being punished. Montresor reflects on his family having a history of taking revenge on every insult. This poisons him with pride so much that you wonder if the punishment is remotely deserved or if he made it a larger dilemma than what it was. Fortunate’s pride in arrogance in being the most excellent wine buff around is recognized as his weak point by Montresor and he uses this to his advantage. Montessori uses Luchesi as a pawn in his plan to trick Fortunato to continue going deep into the catacombs with him; telling him that he will just get Luchesi to taste the wine instead. Fortunato’s pride will not allow him to be outdone so he unknowingly plays along into Montresor’s plan and this ultimately…

“Nemo me impune lacessit” means nobody could hert me without impunity in Latin. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allan Poe depicts a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato who has insulted him even though they seems like good friends. He meets Fortunato at a carnival, using psychological tricks to pretent that he could provide Fortunato a chance to teast a bottom of Amontillado, then lead Fortunato into the catacombs of his home. along…

Montresor can be considered haughty and prideful in this story because of the way he instantly plans to seek revenge on Fortunato. This trait can be identified at the very start of the story when he says, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (3). He tolerates all the physical injuries Fortunato had caused previously, but when Fortunato verbally hurts him, he loses it and seeks revenge. He can't stand insult because of…

In Act III Romeo announced “O, I am fortune’s fool!” then ran away. He ran away because he did not want to get punished by the prince for getting in fight and killing someone. Sense he ran away after killing Tybalt he did not know that he was banished until Friar Laurence told him. According to Romeo on line 17 of act III scene III he said “There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banish’d from the world, And world’s exile is death. Then…

In the novel A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the…

cough so much, he could not reply to Montresor. The narrator then decides to go back home, pretending to care about the health of his friend, but Fortunato insists that they continue to seek for the amontillado. Montresor and Fortunato drinks wine from a bottle and start to talk about Montresor’s family and his family’s coat of arms and motto, which is, “‘A huge human food d’or, in the field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’ ‘And the motto?’ ‘Nemo…

Firstly, in Edgar Allen Poe's The cask of Amontillado, pride incites to acts of vengeance. The character of Montresor and Fortunato are ideal to study the effects that pride can incite because they both have a huge sense of vanity attached to their being. Montresor is part of a noble family while Fortunato is a wealthy man who is proficient in fine wine. Both their pride will lead to acts of vengeance. In the first line, Montresor gives us an essential preview of the actions that will come in…

“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a short story told by a man named Montresor who seeks revenge on Fortunato, for insulting him years ago. Montresor runs into Fortunato at a carnival, and lures him into his catacomb by mentioning Amontillado, a fine wine. Fortunato plays a jester at the carnival, having no clue of his fate with Montresor. Poe sets the majority of the story in the catacombs, and the central idea is revenge. Poe portrays the central idea of revenge with the…

I believe that each person has a breaking point and that when he or she reaches it, their nature is changed. The narrator opens the story by explaining the countless amount of injuries that this name named Fortunado has caused against him. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato” (Poe 390). This vast number of instances have added up over a great deal of time. He had enough time to develop a relationship with this man and for there to be that many injuries. I believe that this is a weakness that I…

short story The Cask of Amontilado is one that is driven by his obssession on keeping up with his family 's motto. Nemo me impune lacessit is the motto that Montersor 's family lives by, and it means “No one attacks me with impunity.” The signifgance this motto plays in forming Montersor 's character can be seen through his opening monologue, and all the way through to the line “In pace requiescat” (rest in peace.) In his opening monologue, Montersor points out that Fortunado has wronged him,…