How Does The Cask Of Amontillado Change

Vengeance is a mentally damaging emotion that can cause one to do actions that they wouldn’t normally execute. There were several major conflicts in the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” that helped lead the the change of mind of the characters. All of the circumstances, helped change the characters attitudes towards each other and the major conflicts involved in the story, such as; Montresor dehumanizing his enemy, Fortunato not being able to be naive, and the reader realizing the intensity of the situations involved. Poe describes a change in Montresor, a dynamic character’s attitude, toward Fortunato, where in the beginning of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor thought of Fortunato as a living thing but near the …show more content…
In the beginning of, “The Cask Amontillado,” Poe helped show Montresor and Fortunato’s relationship with each other, which was friendly and casual. According to Poe, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day!” (Poe, 2). In this quote both of the men are being friendly to each other. Fortunato, naive to what was about to happen to him, greeted his old friend, as if nothing had occurred between him and Montresor. By the end of the story, however, Fortunato was no longer naive to what was happening and how Montresor felts towards him. “An example of this is towards the end of the story, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!” (Poe, 7). By this point in the story Fortunato realizes what is happening to him. He is also no longer having a casual conversation like before with Montresor, but instead now pleading for his life and forgiveness. Montresor wasn’t the only character who had a change of attitude towards another character, Fortunato, began the short story as a naive man, but ended as someone who was helpless and pleading for his