Cask Of Amontillado

You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy,’” (347) Montresor using skills seemed to make it so that it seemed he had cared for Fortunato’s health. Making it completely unnoticeable that he had despised the plan for vengeance. Both men seem to have a grip, when it comes to intelligence. “Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself,” (70) Zaroff’s intelligence lie in his hunting abilities.

<br>The way the narrator treats his enemy is one of the clearest examples for ironic elements. When the characters meet, Montresor realises that Fortunato is afflicted with a severe cold, nevertheless he makes a point of him looking "remarkably well". Montresor acts in the most natural and friendly way towards the man object of his revenge, and even praises his "friend's" knowledge in the subject of wines. Also upon their meeting, Montresor begins a psychological manipulation of Fortunato. He claims that he needs his knowledge to ascertain that the wine he has purchased is indeed Amontillado. Furthermore, he acknowledges that Fortunato is engaged in another business (i.e.: the celebration of carnival), so he would go to Luchresi, who, one is made to believe, is a competitor of Fortunato's. To these words, Fortunato is forced by his pride to accompany Montresor to the vaults (where the Amontillado is kept), dissipate his doubts and also to prove his higher status than Luchresi as a connoisseur of wine. In fact, during their way down under in the catacombs, the twisted mind of Montresor, dares to give Fortunato the chance to go back, due to the almost unbearable dampness and foulness rampant in the vaults and Fortunato's state of health. The narrator clearly knows about the stubborn nature of Fortunato, and is

How is Montresor an expert in his revenge in “The Cask of the Amontillado”? Montresor’s actions throughout the story show his deceitful and devious ways. One way he does this is by pre-planning the murder of Fortunato. Montresor put the the brick like rocks and cement material into place in the catacomb. With this premeditated plan, Montresor is cleary planning on killing Fortunato that night.

Montresor manipulates Fortunato in many ways. One way is when he tells Fortunato that they should go back to the carnival because of his cough. Another example when he manipulates Fortunato is when Montresor keeps on promising that the bottle is deep within his family catacombs. One more example is Montresor manipulates fortunato by playing on his knowledge of wine. Fortunato is easily led by Montresor’s weakness. In addition of manipulating Fortunato, Montresor also manipulates the reader. While reading the story the reader can read and understand what Montresor is thinking. “With these materials and with the

Montresor was sane because he had an exquisite knowledge of wine and used it to exploit Fortunato’s weak point. In the beginning of the story Montresor was introducing Fortunato and says, “He had a weak point – This Fortunato… He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.” (Poe 174)

Fortunato is a “Wine expert” that likes to insult people and he is the victim in the story. Montresor is a wealthy man that does not like to be insulted. He is also very sly and dedicated. Montresor is the narrator and the murderer in the story.

In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Montresor is shown as clever, revengeful, and prepared. Montresor is shown to be clever in the story when he uses Fortunado’s knowledge of wine against him to kill him.“He had a weak point- this Fortunado-although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine” (Poe 372). This quote shows that Montresor is clever because during this part, he was able to find a way to trick Fortunado so he could kill him. He knew of Fortunado’s knowledge of wine and used that as a advantage for himself. During the story, Rainsford is also revengeful. He shows that he is revengeful when this happens:Fortunado made fun of Montresor and made him quite

Montresor uses Fortunato's pride, passion and past actions to justify his revenge on Fortunato. Fortunato’s passion is wine. He can tell what type of wine it is just by smelling/tasting it. In the past Fortunato has bullied Montresor and ever since Montresor has wanted revenge.

Secondly, Montresor is very manipulative in his approach of finishing his ultimate goal of avenging his family name. Montresor uses a lot of manipulation in this short story to benefit him in a positive way. One example is when he said “but I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.” He used this quote to put his plan into action and manipulating Fortunato to go to his house to test the wine but it would end up being the death of Fortunato instead. Montresor also uses their preconceived thoughts of someone in order to manipulate them to get them to act and do what he wants of them.

In the story Montresor was being very intelligent with how he worked things out for the murder of Fortunato. “There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house” (2). This quote shows how Montresor had the whole murder planned out so no one would have any suspicion towards Montresor for the murder. Another time when

I have substantial evidence to prove that Montresor is a very clever and cunning man, the reason I say this is as follows... In the story Montresor is always giving Fortunato something to drink. which in turn is making him more easy to convince and manipulate, it is also lowering Fortunatos reaction time to what's going on around him. in the text it says in multiple spots something about this sort…”’drink,’ I said, presenting him the wine.” and, “I broke and reached him a falçon De Grâve.

Secondly, Montresor is sane when he killed Fortunato because he had a motive. According to Dictionary.com motive is “something that causes someone to act a certain way or do a certain thing” (“Motive”). The motto of the Montresor

Montresor sounds like he really cares about fortunato.. Right?? WRONG! The reader now can imagine fortunato and montresor walking in the moldy wine vaults and montresor with a fake concerning grin comforting and caring for fortunato, because even though he knows he is about to kill him he wants to look good for himself because he know fortunato will be greatly missed.. Now the reader is wondering if montresor has guilt about killing fortunato.

The traits of cleverness, patience, and indifference are all qualities that Montresor, the beloved, timeless character, is. The plot to kill Fortunato was clever in its own, which is why the cleverness of Montresor will be depicted first. Now, most people in a time of uncontrollable anger cannot show a false face. However, Montresor does just that as he says, “I continued, as was my in to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my to smile now was at the thought of his immolation” (Poe, 1846, p. 1). Montresor was very clever because if he had shown anger or disgust towards Fortunato then he would have known something was wrong. The trait of cleverness helped Montresor disguise his anger because he knew it would help him to get Fortunato’s guard down. This instance shows that he thought with logic throughout the plot of the murder. Montresor also knew exactly what would get Fortunato to come to Montresor’s castle; wine, as he states, “He had a weak point” (Poe, 1846, p. 1). Montresor devised this plot methodically and with complete organization. He thinks the whole murder out because the cleverest part of Montresor

Montresor’s actions lend to his vengeful and manipulative nature. He lures Fortunato into the catacombs of his home to carry out his plans to kill Fortunato. In the first step of his plan, he boosts Fortunato’s ego by saying that Luchesi was almost as worthy a judge of wine as he. Then Montresor tricks Fortunato into believing that there is an