Amontillado Montresor Analysis

In the Story "A & P" by John Updike and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe show some similarities as well as some differences. Specifically it will identify a character in each story that analyze how different and how similar they are in both stories. The two main characters in the stories both seem to fit in quite well in their setting, and yet they both are have their own very different beliefs and morals. The entire meaning and core of these stories revolves around these two characters and their nonconformity, without them, the stories simply could not exist.

Cast of Amontillado 2a- Montresor's family coat of arms and motto show the theme of revenge in the story. The family coat of arms is a foot crushing a snake that has its fangs in the foot. While the motto is Nemo Me Impune Lacessit meaning "no one provokes me with impunity." This shows that if someone messes with the family, they will pay as Fortunato did. Fortunato was dressed as a jester the night of a carnival, this is significant because jesters are often considered foolish as were his actions. He follows Montresor deep into the catacombs and becomes drunk. He trusted Montresor all too quickly only for him to end up being led to his death.

Montresor’s family motto is as, “[n]emo me imprune lacessit” (Poe). His motto means, to me, as, “Nobody attacks me with impurity”. This family motto shows that Montresor firmly believes in his motto as well proving where he gets his traits of revenge.

‘And the motto?’ ‘Nemo me impune lacessit’” (Poe 1). Simply translated, this means “no one provokes me with impunity.” The family motto indicates that pride of family honor has been a long-standing and well-guarded trait. Montresor’s ancestry and history of pride elevates his grievance against Fortunato, and evokes an attack because he dared to belittle Montresor’s honorable name. In fact, Montresor’s pride is still so great, and his remorse so little, that he continues to gasconade about his revenge fifty years after the event. The pride of his family name forces Montresor to murder Fortunato, conclusively and irreversibly directing his decisions throughout the short story.

Vengeance and murder infects the minds of Montresor and Fortunato upon an exchange of insult in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado”. This is the story of pure revenge after Forturano disrespects Montresor. The story follows the characters meeting up at a carnival and eventually the disguised Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs of his home by convincing him that he acquired something that could pass for Amontillado, a light Spanish sherry. Fortunato grows eager to taste this wine and to determine for Montresor whether or not it is truly Amontillado. He leads him back to the catacombs of his home and carries out his plot to bury him alive. Edgar Allan Poe writes from a mysterious first person perspective, uses colorful symbolism and situational irony to present the man's inner self, in turn revealing that revenge is fundamentally infeasible.

Edgar Allan Poe portrays conflict by creating tension between Montresor and Fortunato. In the story, tension is merely only seen through the eyes of Montressor because of the animosity that he has against Fortunato for the cursing of his family's name which was one of an old and honored one. Montresor states his revenge by saying “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed my revenge.” Montresor is stating that he had been able to bear insults, but once his family's name was insulted, he was driven to seek revenge from this humility. Montresor's evil intentions to murder Fortunato come solely from Fortantos insulting demeanor. The conflict that is shared between Fortunato and Montresor is the main factor which creates the theme of revenge in this story.

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In the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor is seeking revenge against Fortunato who has insulted him and his family, and this drive for revenge is reflected in Montresor’s family coat of arms and motto. This motive of revenge is established at the beginning of the story when Montresor says, “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” Poe uses every move and word spoken by Montresor to reinforce the idea of revenge. Even as Montresor is cordial to Fortunato when they meet at the carnival, the reader knows Montresor is putting on an act to gain Fortunato’s confidence to bring about his revenge. Montresor greets Fortunato by saying, “My dear Fortunato,

Decades ago, there lived two men, one was named Montresor and the other Forunato. Montresor was a bit of a drinker who had a tender, kind side, but to many people, was considered a usual citizen. Forunato was a wealthy man that was bitter and snobby. To many people, he was considered rude and boastful. The town where these men lived was a small, well-connected town, where everyone knew everyone. To many of the towns’ people, Montresor and Forunato seemed to be good friends. Montresor’s and Forunato’s friendship started when they met at the town’s carnival. The carnival was held once a year and everyone would go. The moon was bright and lit up the whole carnival. The night was loud and festive, filled with talking and laughter all around. Montresor

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In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Montressor uses his rival, Fortunato’s, Hubris to plot his revenge for the wrongs Fortunato has done against Montreseor’s family. In the beginning of the story, Montressor explains why he must get his revenge on Fortunato and also explains how Fortunato believes he is a skilled judge of fine wines. His plan to kill Fortunato is to lure him into his wine cellar by using his weakness of fine wines which also gives him plausible deniability of the crime. In the short story Fortunato says, “Someone is playing games with you. And Luchresi! Ha! Luchresi knows nothing about wines, nothing at all.”

Throughout the short story, The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe portrays that when an individual pursues careless behaviours that are defined by his diabolical environment, the result becomes perpetual absurdity. Interpretations of the Carnival present it as a social institution that degrades the higher functions of thought and speech by translating them into the grotesque body, and ultimately releasing impulses to embark on a warpath. Similarly, “the thousand injuries of Fortunato” that victimized Montresor, fundamentally instigated his absurd revenge. Not to mention, the devilish atmosphere of the Carnival stimulates his egotistical act; the author goes on to highlight the similarities between the Carnival and Montresor and he writes,“It was... one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend.”

static character. All these characterization makes him seem like an actual, existent person. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge,” revealed Montresor’s desire of revenge on his friend, Fortunato, just because of an insult. We later found out that Montresor’s punishment is death, which is not usually an expected revenge of an “insult”. Friends do say or do things that hurt each other’s feelings whether it is intentional or not, but very few of us vowed for revenge. All these factors revealed Montresor’s vengeful characteristic. Without a doubt, Montresor is an intelligent character.

the motto?” Overlooking the main identifier and representative figure of a notable family is an insult on its own, relaying the demeaning notion that one’s family crest is not important enough to be remembered and revered. The final offence committed by Fortunato was his implication that Montresor was not a part of the masons. “Then you are not of the brotherhood….You are not of the masons.”

Do friends stay friends? Well that’s not always the case, epically in Montresor and Fortunato situation. As we all know in the story of “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor and Fortunato aren’t even close to friends in fact Montresor plans to kill Fortunato and succeeds. But why, what made Montresor want to plan such a despicable act was it betrayal, lie or. Maybe you’ve been reading the wrong story the story hardly told the story of how a once great friendship crumbled in 1 day.