Catacombs

same pride seemed to be a reoccurring theme for Fortunato throughout the story and even leading up to his death. Fortunato also trusted Montresor throughout the story. He did whatever Montresor asked, including following him to his house and creepy catacomb. It’s very obvious Fortunato has never seen an episode of The Twilight Zone or he would have never gone anywhere near his…

significance of that mountaintop made me realize how fortunate I was that I had never experienced war first hand. On that same trip we had the opportunity to visit Salzburg. I had a day to cram in a visit to Mozart’s childhood home, the Christian Catacombs and the salt mines. All of those were fun but I found the salt mine excursion was not only scary but, also educational. It wasn’t scary until our tour traveled past a sign that read Gluck Auf. Translated that means “ good luck coming out”.…

he uses this to his advantage. The narrator starts to brag and mentions about a rare brandy called Amontillado in his cellar. Fortunato insist that he must see this rare wine. They go to the underground catacomb, of the Montresor family, with the narrator leading Fortunato deeper into the catacomb. Fortunato is getting drunker during their journey. Eventually the narrator leads Fortunato into a man-sized hole, which is apart of the wall. The narrator chains Fortunato to the wall and beings to…

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Last autumn I found myself among the mountains of Tibet, wandering through the high desert created by the rain shadow of the mighty Himalayas, looking up at the cascade of unblinking stars that stretched across the night sky. The stars, in their steady glow, revealed a rather strange sight that I could best describe as being both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. It felt like they were giving me an exclusive window to look at the inner workings of the world and everything in it.…

that it eased Montresor to know he was torturing this man. He was really out to get him. He was really sneaky, he smiled in his face as if there was nothing wrong. He was plotting on getting his revenge without it being known. He got him to go to catacombs. As he was building the wall Fortunato was screaming and he was mocking him. Through narration you could tell that he felt pleasure throughout the killing because of the way he provoking him. He had…

Pride is a very dominating emotion, it gives the sense of personal worth, self-respect and honor. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses this literature to spread some light on the subject. Fortunato’s foolish pride leads him to be betrayed by a friend, and Montresor’s uncontrolled pride motivated his indecent act. Poe suggests that man can easily be influenced by pride, through his characters and their actions. The power of pride is clearly represented through the character of…

attending also. One of the narrator’s frenemies insult his family name which get our narrator, Montresor, angry and he wants revenge. That is his motive to kill him. Montresor decides to take his frenemy back to his house. Montresor lives over the catacombs so they go down there where no one is and the entire time he lures him in more and more with expensive, fine wine. When Montresor can get him in this small space in the wall, he chains him up and then puts a wall in front of the space to…

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the Met, the whole room is decorated with the relief sculptures, as it would be in the original palace in the audience hall. Its as if you walked into the ancient palace itself. The color of the reliefs in the whole room looks like a gold plated catacomb, with a little pink undercurrent. The reliefs give of an image of their supernatural beings in their everyday rituals. Some of the reliefs portray the Assyrian king and his incomparable supremacy, and authority in the…