Evil In The Cask Of Amontillado

What is evil, how do you see evil. Do you see it as something that people develop or a characteristic that someone is born with. One may define evil as, an action that disregards the moral of other sentient beings; however, others might define it as causing the hurting of living organism. Though the actions of someone might not be inherently evil, it is up to a society to decide what they think of a character's actions. Thus, we have been tasked to be the deciding factor on who is more evil. General Zaroff from “The Most Dangerous Game”, or Montresor from “The Cask of Amontillado”.

More importantly, instead of jumping to conclusions, it would be of the utmost importance to introduce our characters and their conditions before we place the title of the “most evil” upon them. Hence, I

In the story which Montresor is involved, he tells his close friend of the downfall and murder of Fortunato, who has supposedly caused the falling in status of his family name. This drives our main character to decide to murder him under the means of revenge. Though this leads us into our conflict, “Who’s more evil?”, there had been some issues with the murder of Fortunato. A large example is the lack of reason for his murder, as stated in the beginning of the story, "A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong", though this ends up not being followed through, as Fortunato is completely clueless to his “friends” motive, as Montresor only mocks Fortunato's cries for help, not even dispelling his possible motives. Not the mention the way that Fortunato fell into death, as he was locked in a damp cell in the dark where he was restricted, this could lead to things such as starvation and dying from thirst, or his wrists could start to rot from lack of blood flow and the shackles constantly rubbing against his