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    describes the setting when Montresor and Fortunato were walking through the underground graveyard as stated in the story “We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs” (). In other words, the author gives the reader a hint that there is something sketchy going on and gives an idea what is going to happen. By walking through piles of skeletons we can conclude somebody is going to die and there is been…

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    Carnival. Montresor is a rich man with a grievance he wishes to carry out on Fortunato.Which leads Montresor, or more to the point, Poe, to then move the setting to the Montresor family catacombs. A great place to keep the murder concealed and a way to make an already macabre plot of murder that much darker. As the catacombs are filled with moss and dead relatives of Montresors’.This is also partially at fault of the victim, Fortunato, as Fortunato's death is caused by his indescribable greed.…

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    story are conflicts, irony, and foreshadowing. The story has conflict all through it. The conflicts are all in different ways. Man vs self is a conflict that Montresor was dealing with. Montresor says “My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so” (870). This shows that Montresor is feeling a little bit of guilt about the plan he is doing. Man vs Man is another conflict that played a huge part in this story. Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato. Montresor says, “When…

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    Montresor's Jealousy

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    In the Cast of Amontillado, Montresor commits an act of cold blooded murder. He has allowed his own feelings of inadequacy and unimportance, in comparison to Fortunato, to blind him with a simmering jealous rage. This jealousy causes Montresor to patiently plot and plan his revenge until the opportune time. Montresors rage manifests into a calculated death for Fortunato which he has convinced himself is justified due to all Fortunato’s “thousand injuries” (Poe 329). Montresor manipulates…

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    Short Story Literary Analysis Anger and redemption are are traits in all humans, but some take it too far. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, the protagonist of the story, Montresor takes his anger as far as building a wall around his enemy, Fortunato. Readers learn Montresor built the wall around him because Fortunato publicly humiliated him in the past which causes this anger. First of all, Montresor methodically planned out the death of Fortunato before hand. In addition, Montresor…

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    Fortunato. Montresor seeks revenge and creates an elaborate plan to kill Fortunato. In the chaos of Carnival, Montresor leads a very intoxicated Fortunato to the catacombs. Fortunato believes they are going to the catacombs to taste a fine wine, the Amontillado, however Montresor secretly plans to kill him. The men travel to the depths of the catacombs, and Montresor covertly entombs Fortunato. Sealing the tomb, Montresor leaves Fortunato to die. Montresor kills Fortunato to avenge the wrongs…

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    In the short story The Cask of Amontillado, the audience learned that you should treat everyone like you want to be treated or you might end up dead like the main protagonist Fortunato. Montresor was a rich man who vowed revenge on Fortunato who he had finally insulted Montresor for the last time. Montresor is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge. In the story, the author, Edgar Allan Poe, used irony, setting, and characterization, to create a creepy mood. In the story Poe used irony…

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    The cask of Amontillado is a lie Montresor uses to lure Fortunato to his death. When the reader analyzes the title, “Amontillado” is the alcoholic beverage the narrator claims to have in his family’s catacomb, and “the casks” are barrels used for storing wine. Montresor tells Fortunato at the carnival that he “received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado” (525); in context, “cask” means the same thing as “pipe”. Interestingly, “cask” can also mean “casket”…

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    It is obvious that Montresor is meticulous in his planning of Fortunato’s murder. He makes sure that no one is around to witness Montresor leading Fortunato to the catacombs. Fortunato does not suspect a thing since the carnival provides a very reasonable explanation for all the attendants to be absent at once. Then they continue to the vault. In the vault, Fortunato starts coughing intensely which makes him “impossible…

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    First, the carnival is a symbol of freedom and happiness, where people celebrates life. The catacombs represent imprisonment and confinement, where the deaths rest. The Amontillado has different meanings for each character. For Fortunato it represent pleasure; on the contrary for Montresor it symbolize a mean to get his revenge. The irony is present…

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