Why Is Montresor At Fault In The Cask Of Amontillado

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe offers a complex and often disturbing portrait of the narrator, Montresor. His desire for revenge has always been a major part of the motive for his actions. Montresor is responsible for the death of Fortunato because Montresor does not allow an insult to remain unchastised. His desire for revenge was so well planned that the reader can see that Montresor did not waste one second of his time. The Cast of Amontillado is a portrait of human revenge expressed in an unpleasant manner. Also it express that Montresor did no care about anything he just was going to do everything that was in his hands to maintain his high social level. This story only focuses on taking revenge to maintain an upper class

mode of maintaining power and status in which they are accustomed to live.

We as readers can only see the story as if Montresor was crazy. “rather than implying the protagonist’s insanity, the first paragraph of the story delinates the conflict between the characters arising from their social roles” (Baraban 51). Th estory seen to have been developed, in parts because it shows the compensations for the upper classes, and the noble people work to keep those who are inferior to them, and it is seen that for noble people it is very difficult to reach to become part of the high class. That is to say the one who was born poor stay poor.

Everything that happened in his life, teasing , inadmissible deals that he had to endure throughout youth had to have provoked the idea of "Cask of Amontillado" and its protagonists. This pride of nobility that his brothers showed him, and for all his experiences in the school has to do too with the creation of Poe, Montresor. “Montresor is a complex Machiavellian criminal, exhibiting a full range of traits from clever ingratiation to stark sadism” (Reynolds 103). the protagonist of this story serves as an allegory, of a high class on an unevenness, this lets us understand that Fortunato symbolizes the middle class.

The protagonist Fortunato is very much like Poe. Because it is equivalent to Poe Fortunato was not born rich, but could obtain the admiration of all that circumvall, and provisionally of some captains. We can realize it while we are reading, but the most significant and the most presto, is the Fortunato name evokes that it is part of a class in progress, that is to say that it was not born with it. Although he had manifested himself in society after John Allan recognized him, he continually recaptured his original place in society for all that he was doing; Poe used all this to caterizar to Montresor as the protagonist shows similar traces of fanciful advantages. Montresor humiliates to Fortunato through "cask of amontillado" with a prototype that he suggests that Fortunato is a fool. The nobility that cornered Poe was adverse to accede to any man without noble blood who goes through his veins to fit his ranks, due to his sensitivity of his dominance.
The "thousand injuries" (poe 402) Montresor tells the beginning of the story tell us that social laws are not being fulfilled.

But on the other hand, the injuries were not what led him to violence, he says that it was all Fortunato's fault that led to "ventured upon insult", which causes Montresor to take revenge; But the insult was never particularly determined, it was through several obvious actions of the text, the insult we can see how Fortunato feels that he is on the same level as Montresor and his family. The nobility is dying and because of this Montresor thinks that he is losing his place in high society. Finally he feels so proud of the rise of lower social classes and being the last of the family, he decided to take vengeance as the last option.

The insult that Montresor refers can be seen from a perspective of arrogance of Fortunato, that is how Montresor sees it, he feels that Fortunato is trying to advance to a higher social level that was never offered because he was born in a Low society; And as he is not noble by birth, Montresor has something that sadly Fortunato does not have it is that this is more cultural capital. Even that Fortunato is winning that also Montresor continues to see him as a fool, and someone who should not be reaching that high class he

wants.

Edgar Allan Poe "The Cask of Amontillado" is a story of revenge, but the problem is that a man who seeks to peel with another. It is an exhibition of the custom of the personal life of Poe with the upper class, and thus you can see an attribute to the nobility along the lower classes increasingly considered. When a great condition begins to lose the patrimony, there are always people who take their hand to be able to save what is theirs and that was what Montresor tried to symbolize. To the final Montresor interprets the novitiate in the world and as he would take actions so that the lower class never moves from where it is. Nevertheless the scene where appears Fortunato and Montresor when they change of place, the lower class provisionally takes place in the nobility.