In the dark, gothic story of The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator, Montresor, can best be characterized as a revengeful individual. The story begins by Montresor stating that he has been injured and insulted countless times by his friend Fortunato and that he has vowed upon himself to seek revenge. During the carnival, Fortunato encounters Montresor in a drunken state and tells Fortunato that he had gotten himself something similar to that of Amontillado. Fortunato’s wine addiction and pride has aided in Montresor’s death revenge to lure him deeper and deeper within the vaults that will ultimately serve as his death room. Furthermore, with the passage “Nemo me impune lacessit,” which means “No one attacks me with impunity,” …show more content…
can help to confirm that Montresor’s character within the story is that of a revengeful person. Through Montresor’s actions it can be affirmed that he will ultimately achieve his revenge against his supposedly friend Fortunato.
Montresor’s revenage begins during the carnival where he encounters a somewhat drunken Fortunato and tells him that he has obtained a similar wine to Amontillado. Montresor tricks Fortunato deep within the vaults without any suspicions about his revengeful death act while remaining as friendly as he could be. Through the long walk, Montresor gives Fortunato wine as to aide with his coughing; as a result Fortunato becomes more vulnerable and less suspicious about Montresor’s true intentions by becoming drunker. The fact that Montresor has led Fortunato deep within the vaults without raising any suspicions and leaving him vulnerable shows that Montresor will carry his murderous revenge without any doubt. Furthermore into the story, Montresor easily chains up a very drunken Fortunato by the feet, which is attached to a rock, so once sober he will not be able to escape and begins building a brick wall, trapping him within. As Montresor keeping elevating the wall, Fortunato’s last plea for his life, as he has become aware of Montresor’s merciless intentions is, “For the love of God, Montresor!” Before placing the last brick, Montresor calls Fortunato twice, but he never replied back and with that he achieved his death revenge against his friend
Fortunato. According to Montresor, this event happened fifty years ago and apparently he was never found guilty of committing such deviant act. Although Montresor never once mentioned what awful insults Fortunato said to him or how he injured him in anyway, he did confess what happened to Fortunato. As a narrator he can be trusted because he told his sin as a bed death confession. As the story enters its final stage, as the reader are well informed how Montresor took his revenge step by step; therefore, the method used by Poe into letting the readers know what was Montresor’s actions throughout the story, made the readers realize that the narrator is a revengeful person.
Have you ever met someone so clever, determined, and cruel to leave a man to die over an insult? Montresor is the perfect example of these character traits. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor uses all of these character traits to get revenge on Fortunado for insulting his family name. Montresor’s clever planning, determination for revenge, and cruel murder are the perfect combination for his unequaled revenge.
When they arrive at the Montresor estate, Montresor leads Fortunato down the stairs into the catacombs. Down here is where the Amontillado Fortunato is going to taste and where the revenge of Montresor is going to take place. As he get closer and closer, the narrator opens up more and more to how he is going to kill his "friend". It sound like it is a premeditated murder. Montresor seems so inconspicuous that he acts like he cares about Fortunato which is still a part of his plan.
Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado is a story about fear and revenge. The story begins with Montressor's vow of revenge, foreshadowing future actions. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult vowed revenge..." Montressor had to be sure not to raise suspicion of what he was going to do Fortunato. Montressor knew that Fortunato had a weakness that he could use towards his advantage.
Edger Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” talks about how Montressor feels like he was insulted by his friend Fortunato. Also Montressor’s family motto is “Nemo me impune lacessit.”(Allan Poe 362), which means “No one insults me with impunity.”, and Montressor doesn’t want to let his family motto down so he uses it as a reason and make his revenge on Fortunato as a goal that has to be accomplished. Montressor tricks his friend Fortunato which was drunk at the moment, by asking him to follow him to his house and to check an expensive wine that he just purchased to be sure that he didn’t get tricked. Fortunato follows Montressor to his house and went down to the down stairs of Montressor’s house. When they get to the catacombs, Montressor chains up Fortunato and places him in a niche in the wall, and started to build a brick wall leaving him sealed inside to die in the catacombs.
Edgar Allan Poe's "A Cask of Amontillado" is perhaps the most famous tale of terror ever written. Montresor, the story's narrator, leads the reader through his revenge on Fortunato. Montresor entices Fortunato into the dark recesses of the family catacombs with the promise of a very fine wine. At the climax of the story, Montresor shackles Fortunato to a wall and seals him away forever behind brick and mortar. In all of Poe's short stories he attempts to convey "a certain unique or single effect." "A Cask of Amontillado" expresses its dark view of human intention by using elements of irony, foreshadowing, and metaphor. The first person point of view also lends itself to an exploration of the inner secrets of Montresor.
...each step, Montresor pulls Fortunato in a little further by provoking him with threats of getting his archenemy Luchresi to test the wine. Without breaking from his calm shell, Montresor is able to lead Fortunato to his doom never once faltering or stumbling.
Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and revenge, “The Cask of Amontillado”, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, because the reader knows very little about the thoughts of the antagonist, Fortunato. The setting of “The Cask of Amontillado”, in the dark catacombs of Montresor’s wine cellar, contributes to the story’s theme that some people will go to great lengths to fanatically defend their honor.
(Poe 740)". Although Fortunato died “half a century” ago, Montresor has lived with the guilt. In "The Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allen Poe plunges deep into the mind of a deranged man hellbent on revenge and reveals the lasting consequences of freeing oneself from the mental chains of intense hatred. The act of retribution may seem sweet and promising when stewing in anger and hate, but as Poe reminds us, it always comes with a price.
Fortunato “takes possession” of Montresor’s arm, for which he suffers (716) in order to carry out his plan. Poe’s use of possession and suffer give the impression that Montresor is being afflicted again by Fortunato. Once Montresor reveals this meeting at this evening is no coincidence by divulging he made sure none of his attendants would be home. By giving the direct orders to be home. Poe shows us that Montresor was not respected or feared by his servants’ actions. The servants’ leaving after being given a direct order to stay does give credence to the fact that Montresor must be very methodical and unyielding to his schedule. Only once Fortunato to the catacombs does he betray his own premise. Montresor refers to Fortunato as his “poor friend” (716). At this point Poe has depicted this instigator of a “thousand injuries” as a drunken jester that can barely catch his breath at this point in the story. Now Montresor is showing some sympathy towards him. At this point the transition is complete. Where the two men stopped at the entrance to Fortunato’s tomb, this is the moment that leaves no doubt that Montresor is the villain and Fortunato is the
Your best friend insulted you. Do you seek revenge or let it go? Many of us would think no more of it and go on with life, yet Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is a gloomy short story where one character takes the common saying “taste of your own medicine” quite seriously and declares revenge. Set in the damp, dirty catacombs of Italy during the carnival season, the tale revolves around two characters, Montresor, a psychopath who “vowed revenge” against his ‘friend,’ Fortunato, a gullible and prideful man addicted to wine, after withstanding the thousands of injuries Fortunato has caused him. On the other hand, “The Cask of Amontillado” has numerous amounts of foreshadowing and irony throughout, that discreetly helps develop and move the story’s theme of revenge along: showing Montresor’s dark, yet humorous personality and Fortunato’s tragic, inhumane, and ironic end.
Montresor pulls out his sword as he was building the wall to trap Fortunato. For a brief second Montresor thought about killing Fortunato instantly. Instead he makes him suffer, “Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the fabric of the catacombs and felt satisfied. I reproached the wall; I replied to the yells of him who clamored.” Montresor gets enlightenment while Fortunato suffers, which proves him to be
In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator Montresor, has been insulted by Fortunato and his ego fuels him to pursue revenge. He brilliantly uses Fortunato’s pride in wine connoisseurship as bait to guide him to his grave, while promising the taste of an absent cask of Amontillado. Montresor tricks Fortunato and later kills him by burying him in a reserved crypt. Because the characters are submissive to their ego, Poe enlightens a consequence of pride that leads to a man’s end.
Described as “melancholic”, Edgar Allan Poe, well-known for his short stories and poetry, is primarily recognized as a writer of “horror” stories such as “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe’s main character in this story, Montresor, has dedicated several years of his life to plotting his vengeance against Fortunato; a man Montresor feels insulted him. Readers, however, are never made aware of what exactly has transpired between the two men to cause such hatred. Edgar Allan Poe, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” uses verbal irony to establish a suspenseful theme of revenge, carried out by an unreliable narrator.
In Author Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Cask of Amontillado", the main character, Montresor, is determined to seek his revenge on his fellow friend Fortunado due to his rude remarks towards him. Montresor comes up with a very treacherous and sneaky plan in which he would strategically bump into Fortunado at the carnival. After this, Montresor would lower Fortunado into his house, take him down to the catacombs, and then bury him alive in one of the caves, no mercy would be had for him. This story is rather sinister in the way it is portrayed, tying in the themes of honor and revenge. Montresor never really tells the reader what insults Fortunado told against him, but it is made quite obvious that Montresor is engulfed into seeking revenge against
Poe starts out with a man, by the name of Montresor, wanting revenge on another man, named Fortunato. Most of the story takes place deep in the Montresor family catacombs. As Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs, he chains Fortunato up to a small hole in a wall, bricks it over, and leaves Fortunato to die. Even through the traits of anger, hatred, and revenge, as the story progresses on, Montresor, the main character in “The Cask of Amontillado”, starts to show signs of feeling guilty for wanting to murder Fortunato.