No memoires that came to his mind could lead him not to murder. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could.” (Poe 209) Montresor is badly hurt and has fire within, all the pain he has suffered is all because of Fortunato. Montresor claims that he “must not only punish, but punish with impunity” (Poe 209) and that is exactly what he did.…
The story The Cask by Edgar Allan Poe introduces Montresor, a lunatic, who gets revenge on a fellow named Fortunato in a disturbing way. Montresor finally reached the point where he could no longer handle being made fun of by Fortunato. He does not solve his problems in a mannerly way. Montresor instead takes Fortunato in his catacombs and makes sure Fortunato is constantly drinking wine so he will not be able to get away. Once they get to the destination where Montresor will do his evil, he chains Fortunato to a hole in the wall and he starts to enclose Fortunato by covering the hole with bricks.…
The story begins with the narrator, Montresor, expressing his desire to revenge himself upon Fortunato for a “thousand injuries” (Poe 714), and this immediately gives the reader the impression that the narrator is at least slightly mentally unhinged. The scene is set during a carnival in a time period some fifty years prior to Montresor’s current retelling, which applies to Romanticism as the setting is somewhat obscure and the time is not current. The fact that Montresor buries Fortunato alive is extremely shocking to the reader, as is Montresor’s apparent cold-heartedness and his unapologetic manner. Montresor’s actions, although premeditated, seem dominated by his emotions of hatred toward his victim, and not by any amount of logic or…
Title Have you ever wondered how the most renowned villains became well known? They all had the same equalities. These characteristics were being immoral, determined, unreliable, and intelligent. Montresor is all three of these characteristics in the short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. Montresor is immoral because he does not care that he is doing something wrong while he is burying Fortunato alive and building a wall trapping him in the catacombs.…
Poe characterizes Montresor as cunning with the use of foreshadowing because by showing the murder weapon to Fortunato, Montresor’s plans are alluded…
I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation” (Poe 14). Differently from the traveler who deceives Young Goodman Brown by telling him that he is well acquainted with his father and grandfather, Montresor deceives Fortunato by continuing to “smile in his face” as well as by using Fortunato’s weakness against him. As Montresor states line, “He had a weak point—this Fortunato—although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.” (Poe 14).…
Montresor shows all of the signs of being a pathological liar. Not only was he a pathological liar but he was also manipulative. Montresor didn't just manipulate Fortunato. To clear out his house he told the servants that he was gonna be gone till the morning and told them that they couldn't go to the celebration.…
In the age of Poe’s Eighteenth century Venice the rules for revenge, as specified by Montresor, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO,” are rigorous. Montresor insists on the fulfillment of two absolute standards. The 1st is, “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” (Poe. 32). Montresor’s 2d dictum is that a wrong, “is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”…
Does Montresor look like a killer? This may come as a shock but Montresor is indeed a killer. In the cask of Amontillado, Montresor appears as the main character of this story. Montresor is very confident, vengeful, and a little insane. When Fortunato insults him for the last time, He must pay the price.…
(Poe, E) Montresor's actions were bewitching. He twisted and turned people's brains into thinking the wrong thing, even though they knew that they were right, not…
Essay 1: “The Cask of Amontillado” “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe, entails a plot of a very dark devastating revenge story. The reader gets a first person perspective from an unreliable narrator Montresor, who from the start of the short story is already plotting against Fortunato, because he feels he has been made a fool of by him. Montresor doesn’t let the reader know exactly what Fortunato does except the detail of saying, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge (Poe, 165).” the reader gets a sense that Montresor is untrustworthy and has evil intent for Fortunato, but also could be fabricating the truth of events throughout the story due to…
The fact that the motive for killing Fourtunado is never revealed, pushes many to believe that Montresor was insane. In fact Levine states that, “The Cask has no passage to tell the reader that the narrator is mad; the entire story does that.” (80) At some points in the story it shows that Montresor did empathize with Fourtunado. In the story Montresor says, “My heart grew sick-on account of the dampness of the catacombs.” This ironic sentence can also be used to show that he felt no guilt.…
Poe chooses to place this piece of dialogue at a point in the story where the reader is already getting the gist that Montresor is going to make his move soon. Montresor‘s words imply that he cares about the well-being of Fortunado. It is critical to Montresor’s revenge strategy that Fortunado to believe he is extremely loved and important. Should Fortunado become suspicious, Montresor’s plan will be compromised.…
In The cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe vengeance is served viciously. Two Friends, Montresor and Fortunato destiny is determined in two ways only, revenge and murder. In the story Poe uses a feeling of betrayal to build a mysterious and seductive character before ascending to his remarkable strategy to a state of suspense. In fact, throughout the story, the reader slowly realizes that Montresor is an unreliable narrator; that whatever insult Montresor believes Fortunato committed is probably imagined or exaggerated. It's certain that Fortunato has no idea of Montresor's anger, and this makes the story even more tragic and frightening.…
Montresor plays as the narrative within the story, allowing the readers to follow along on this ruthless journey, and is a key tool used to show the various thoughts and actions of Montresor, all of which relate in some manner to his quest for revenge. The quote “For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them.” tells the readers that Montresor is telling the events of the cask 50 years in the future. This information provides useful insight into Montresor’s personality by revealing that he is not mournful at all for his actions, which shows how revenge still has consumed him to this very day.…