Montresor Insecurities

There are times in our life where we meet people that seem to be one’s friend, but are truly the ones spiking the knife through another back. The ones you thought that were there for you but turn around to tell everyone what you told them. Some even envy each other to the point where they end up hurting the relationship or even each other. Montresor in “The Cast of Amontillado” demonstrate such action towards Fortunato by burying him in his family catacomb. Through characterization of Montresor, Poe demonstrates that people with insecurities can easily take thing out of context and can cause them to ruin a good friendship. In today’s society we see such behavior through one another and in social media. People like to pretend to be someone their …show more content…
Even Fortunato has his insecurities due to the fact that he continues on to insult Montresor. “I resumed the trowel and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth and the seventh tire” (726). Each layer of brick that Montresor puts up represents cementing his jalousies and insecurities of the insults that he has taken from Fortunato for all those times. He uses his jalousies and insecurities to trap his friend and killing him. For you to be able to bare a thousand of injures, what make that so different that it would be an insult? Montresor tells us that “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I bet could: but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge”. Injuries imply that it is an accident or it was done on purpose, it wasn’t meant to be intentional. But an insult means that it was something that was building up and giving base for revenge. Just like if someone keeps hitting you unintentionally at some point you’re going to think that they’re doing it on purpose. Fore example, when you are getting teased and being punched most likely you are yelling stop, stop, stop! And this will just make you angry to the point you will want to hit them back and get revenge. There are times where our friends would keep pushing till they hit your buttons and by the time they have accomplished this you are already plotting your revenge upon them. Just like how Fortunato continued to insulate Montresor to the point where he plots revenge on Fortunato. Montresor was able to do this because he did not change the way he act towed Fortunato Montresor gave Fortunato no reason not to trust him. “Neither By word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good-will” (722). In the cast of Amontillado, Montresor is characterize as an insecure, petty vengeful person who is looking for a way to feel better about himself by taking out his poor friend who