How Does Montresor Get Revenge

Have you ever had a friend that you thought you could trust; but then they just stabbed you in the back? You probably have done something that really upset them. You might not even know what you did; but for some reason this person seeks a feeling of revenge and wants your life to be worse in order to make them feel better. This feeling of revenge overcame Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, and took him into a state where he would do crazy things. One of the reasons why Montresor felt that he needed to get revenge over Fortunato was because he was jealous of him . In the story Montresor said to Fortunato “Your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved: you are happy as once I was. You are a man to be missed.” Montresor put a lot of clever thinking into this scheme. This scheme had a lot of thought that went into it which shows that Montresor is very clever. He shows his clever side when Fortunato asked for Montresor “to show a sign that he was a mason; and he produced a trowel. Which is what bricklayers, or masons’ use.” He uses this trowel to foreshadow what is going to happen to his “friend” Fortunato. Montressor being so clever in his scheme planning, planned his scheme Fortunato to do what he wanted him to do. …show more content…
He always knows the right thing to say to make Fortunato do what he wants him to. He manipulates Fortunato by saying he is “On his way to Luchesi.” because he is the one who can tell if it is real amontillado. This made Fortunato want to try and prove himself and show that he is a much better wine taster than Luchesi. This makes Fortunato want to do anything it takes to get in the cellar and try some of the amontillado. Even if the cellar makes him sick, or if he has to go to the farthest part in the cellar he is going to prove to Montresor that he is better than