Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is a classic tale of revenge story that embodies several characteristics that make up a good revenge story. Poe’s stories tend to have a dark or eerie feel about them, and a majority of them consist of horror or revenge. This tale of revenge will catch you off guard with the cruelty that one character shows to the other. In The Cask of Amontillado, we see an eerie setting that helps with foreshadowing the upcoming task that will be completed, and an intriguing set of characters that help make the story so interesting. In the beginning you get a look at the larger setting in which the story is taking place. This is shown when the narrator, Montresor, says “one evening during the supreme madness
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The first thing you notice when they change the setting is how they are getting further and further away from freedom, or the carnival, as they get further into the crypt, eventually coming to a stop so far away from freedom that Fortunato will never be free. They go from the light and cheery atmosphere of the carnival, to the dark depressing confinements of the crypt. The walls are lined with Nitre, and its cold, damp, and dark, which would ultimately help Montresor in his plot to kill Fortunato. This setting plays a huge part in the ending of the story, the cold, and dampness of the crypt led Fortunato to drink a Medoc which would get him too drunk to resist. Poe likes to employ foreshadowing on several occasions inside the crypt, like when Fortunato states “I shall not die of a cough”, due to the cold and dampness of the crypt, and Montresor responds with “True” (Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”). Montresor only responds with true because he knows that in fact he wouldn’t die of a cough, but instead starvation, thirst, or even asphyxiation when he walls Fortunato …show more content…
The first character we’re introduced to is the narrator of the story, Montresor. He begins with “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” shows us that Fortunato did something to Montresor, although we don’t know what, and that he wants revenge (Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”). When they first meet at the Carnival, Montresor is wearing a black silky mask, which could symbolize death, possibly foreshadowing to Fortunato’s fate. Montresor wants Fortunato to taste some wine he has, and entices him by saying he’ll just get someone else to do it. Montresor brings this other guy up several times throughout the story, to subconsciously keep Fortunato from leaving. Besides this little bit of trickery, you also see him get Fortunato drunk on the aspect that he doesn’t want him to get sick. Once they finally arrive at the end, we see that Montresor was prepared to do the deed, meaning it was pre-meditated murder. Then throughout the scene you sense almost a bit of worrying/guilt when Montresor “thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick” (Poe, “The cask of Amontillado”). Finally, at the end of the story he says “For the half the century no mortal has disturbed them,” them implying the body of Fortunato, which shows that possibly he had been feeling guilt for over
The first thing you notice when they change the setting is how they are getting further and further away from freedom, or the carnival, as they get further into the crypt, eventually coming to a stop so far away from freedom that Fortunato will never be free. They go from the light and cheery atmosphere of the carnival, to the dark depressing confinements of the crypt. The walls are lined with Nitre, and its cold, damp, and dark, which would ultimately help Montresor in his plot to kill Fortunato. This setting plays a huge part in the ending of the story, the cold, and dampness of the crypt led Fortunato to drink a Medoc which would get him too drunk to resist. Poe likes to employ foreshadowing on several occasions inside the crypt, like when Fortunato states “I shall not die of a cough”, due to the cold and dampness of the crypt, and Montresor responds with “True” (Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”). Montresor only responds with true because he knows that in fact he wouldn’t die of a cough, but instead starvation, thirst, or even asphyxiation when he walls Fortunato …show more content…
The first character we’re introduced to is the narrator of the story, Montresor. He begins with “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” shows us that Fortunato did something to Montresor, although we don’t know what, and that he wants revenge (Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”). When they first meet at the Carnival, Montresor is wearing a black silky mask, which could symbolize death, possibly foreshadowing to Fortunato’s fate. Montresor wants Fortunato to taste some wine he has, and entices him by saying he’ll just get someone else to do it. Montresor brings this other guy up several times throughout the story, to subconsciously keep Fortunato from leaving. Besides this little bit of trickery, you also see him get Fortunato drunk on the aspect that he doesn’t want him to get sick. Once they finally arrive at the end, we see that Montresor was prepared to do the deed, meaning it was pre-meditated murder. Then throughout the scene you sense almost a bit of worrying/guilt when Montresor “thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick” (Poe, “The cask of Amontillado”). Finally, at the end of the story he says “For the half the century no mortal has disturbed them,” them implying the body of Fortunato, which shows that possibly he had been feeling guilt for over