Catacombs

Because Montresor already knew Fortunato, he was able to lure him into the catacombs. For example Fortunato said, “I drink to the buried that repose around us” (62) Fortunato is arrogant about his wine tasting abilities, which is what leads him into the snare that kills him. Not only is Montresor deceitful, but he is also inventive, because he was able to come up with a unique plan to lure Fortunato into the catacombs without him knowing, makes his plan inventive. Fortunato has a deep love…

his settings are dark and mysterious. In “The cask of Amontillado” he made in dark and mysterious and he tried to make you feel a little uneasy. He described the setting at the beginning it was happy and joyful but then he takes Fortunato to the catacombs and…

told by a man named Montresor who seeks revenge on Fortunato, for insulting him years ago. Montresor runs into Fortunato at a carnival, and lures him into his catacomb by mentioning Amontillado, a fine wine. Fortunato plays a jester at the carnival, having no clue of his fate with Montresor. Poe sets the majority of the story in the catacombs, and the central idea is revenge. Poe portrays the central idea of revenge with the narrator, Montresor. When Montresor talks to Fortunato about his…

This mask represents the catacomb in which Montresor killed Fortunato in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. The masks lacks a mouth to represent how the catacomb kept the secret of Fortunato’s death: “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious” (Poe). The cask of Amontillado represents the excuse that Montresor made to get Fortunato into the catacomb: “ ‘The Amontillado!’ ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment” (Poe). The wall…

Montresor is insulted by another of the elite he considers a friend, named Fortunato. Montresor approaches Fortunato during carnival season about a pipe of wine known as Amontillado that he claims to have purchased in order to lure him to the catacombs beneath the Montresor estate. Fortunato is led down into the bowels of the earth, where he is shackled to a predetermined spot on the floor. Montresor immediately begins to wall up the alcove he has led his friend to, intending to bury him…

implementation of this is seen throughout the whole story from the very beginning as the plot of the entire story, Montresor plans on murdering poor Fortunato by using his very elaborate scheme he keeps repeating during the whole story by sealing him in his catacombs and trapping him by building a wall and Fortunato realises what is going on but when it is too late for him to do anything. One other literary device the author uses in “The Cask of the Amontillado” is the usage of the…

Allen Poe. In this story we follow two men named Fortunado and Montesor. Montesor is out to seek revenge on his “good” friend Fortunado, a very prideful man, as he has made him look like a fool one too many times. Montesor takes his friend down the catacombs deep beneath the city to show him a cask of wine he has obtained, as wine is Fortunado’s weak point. We soon find out this is going to be the end of him as Montesor chains him up and brick by brick he is buried alive. The central idea that…

lifestyle. That was a way of life that Montresor lived. Montresor was a psychopath. Montresor was charming, yet mischievous, especially with his words. Montresor hurt, and even killed with no remorse. "My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so, not that fact that I was trapping Fortunato. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half…

In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, vengeance is served. Two friends; Montresor and Fortunato, destinies are determined in two ways revenge and murder. In the story, Poe uses a feeling of betrayal to build a mysterious and seductive character. In fact, throughout the story, the reader slowly realizes that Montresor is an unreliable narrator; that whatever insult Fortunato committed is probably imagined or exaggerated. It is certain that Fortunato has no idea of Montresor's anger,…

Fortunato into the catacombs to taste some amontillado. Itis the night of the fair…