“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Casks of Amontillado” contains two characters going into the catacombs to obtain some wine. With an intelligent mind, one of character’s named Montresor creatively gets his revenge on the other character, Fortunato. He can’t achieve it without the proper setting. Everything has to be at the right time and place in order for his plan to work. The events in the story happened because of the setting. The carnival and catacombs indicate that the story is located in Italy. The catacombs are where people’s remains would be stored underneath the ground. That’s where the story takes place. Montresor convinces Fortunato to come by allowing him to taste wine. Fortunato is known for tasting wine. Montresor ironically tells him he can get someone else if he is feeling sick. Fortunato had too much of a passion for wine tasting that he declines Montresor's suggestion. Montresor specifically wants him to try a wine called Amontillado, however there is none.
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In this type of location, the story already sounds like Montresor wants to do something malicious. The setting gives an impression that it’s dark and eerie. At any location with corpse are often seen as unwelcoming and funereal. The area is cold, damp, and old because there was nitre, "The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults.” The air is also damp and stale. If someone were to find him inside, they won’t notice it was Montresor because Fortunato will already be considered as a dead
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a story about revenge, but the reader is never truly told exactly what Fortunato did to warrant such vengeance. In fact, throughout the story, the reader gradually realizes that Montresor is an unreliable narrator, and that Fortunato is a friend of Montresor who is unaware that Montresor is plotting to kill him. He is a connoisseur of wine who is enticed by Montresor to sample some rare Amontillado and lured into his trap down into the catacombs. While Luchesi is another wine connoisseur and an acquaintance of Montresor and Fortunato; Montresor urges Fortunato to sample his wine by threatening to allow Luchesi to try it first if Fortunato does not comply. that whatever insult Montresor believes Fortunato committed is probably imagined or exaggerated.
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is told through the eyes of a wine enthusiast, called Montresor. The author chooses to write the story through Montresor’s point of view, because it makes the reader really think, and shows them how a murderer thinks. It also adds suspense, leading up to the immolation of Fortunato. In the story Montresor talks about how he is in a toxic friendship, with a man named Fortunato. Montresor apparently suffered many injuries due to Fortunato, but when Fortunato insults him, Montresor can not tolerate it any more. He swears revenge; however, he takes it to the next level. Throughout the story, information is exposed about Montresor's personality. He paints Fortunato out to be a terrible
The plot of the story is a simple one. Montresor tales revenge on his friend Fortunato by luring him into the tunnels under the family estate. There he leads Fortunato into the depths of the catacombs where he buries him alive by walling him into a niche. The story is told in first person from the point of view of Montresor
Montresor is trying to lure Fortunato to his vaults by telling him that Luchresi can just come and taste the Amontillado because he knows best. He knows Fortunato will freak out by this statement, and then show Montresor that he is wrong in saying that. Indeed, this leads Fortunato down into the catacombs, just so he can prove Montresor wrong. That 's when Montresor will take his final step in his plan to end Fortunato. This event leads to the most suspenseful part in the short story. The reader doesn’t know what Montresor’s next step is going to be in his plan, along with what stupid move is Fortunato going to take to leading himself closer to his death.
Montresor used years of trust between Fortunato's and himself to visit the catacombs underneath Montresor’s mansion while Fortunato was intoxicated. In the ghoulish catacombs, where no one could apprehend them. once they got to the deepest parts of the catacombs, shackles were on Fortunato’s wrists before he could blink. Under the bones of the past, revealed cement and bricks, sealing Fortunato’s fate. Montresor sealed him away in a place that one day he would resemble; skeletons and dust. Montresor will never be caught, and Fortunato will never be found.
<br>The Cask of Amontillado is a horror short story, which revolves around the themes of revenge and pride. The plot involves two men: Montresor, the narrator, who is an Italian aristocrat seeking revenge against the second main character: Fortunato, a proud man that boasts about his conoisseurship of wines and who finally walks to his own death.
“The Cask of Amontillado” was written by Edgar Allan Poe and was published in 1846. In the short story the narrator, Montresor, executes his friend Fortunato because he feels like he insulted him. For this, he seeks revenge. Fortunato is known to be very knowledgeable about all types of wine. Montresor uses this to his advantage to take him down to his family crypt during the carnival celebration. He tells him that he has a unique wine, and believes it is an Amontillado. After Montresor and Fortunato go deeper and deeper into the crypt, Montresor chains Fortunato and builds a wall around him. At first Fortunato thinks it is a joke, but he soon realizes that he will be dying in the crypt. Montresor goes on to boast about his crime and how he has never been caught. This shows that Montresor is a sinister, mentally insane, and a narcissist.
The plot is simple Montresor has been insulted by Fortunato and he wants revenge so he leads Fortunato into a crypt, kills him and tells the story fifty years later. The story takes place in the eighteen hundred during the Carnaval. The story starts with Montresor claiming that Fortunato had injured him a thousand times,
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.
Montresor’s Villainy In an underground catacomb, somewhere in Italy, Montresor is planning a horrible murder. Throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor portrays a villain figure. Throughout the story, he tries to become friends with Fortunato, but really he just wants to become close with his enemy.
Fortunato's’ death snuck up on him like a robber sneaking into your mysterious house on a pitch dark night. In the text “The Cask Of Amontillado” Fortunato, the protagonist, is a lightheaded, drunk, rich man. He tasted first class wines, and has a bad-eye looking over him, named Montresor. The two gentlemen travel on foot into the catacombs, which lead them to an alcove where it is a perfect place for a murder. The horrifying ending left everyone shook up and wondering what was going to happen next. Fortunato is so wasted he didn’t see the back door coming his way as Montresor uses his friendliness, jealously, and dangerousness to commit a bloody murder.
Finally, they reach the end on the catacombs and the Amontillado is near. Then, suddenly Montressor throws Fortunato and fettered him on the wall in a little aperture. He Builds a crypt with a trowel and masonry slowly circumscribing him. Fortunato will slowly suffocate and die. He is almost done laying the stones when Fortunato begs him to let him out and lets him know that the joke was very good but Montressor is not joking. He lays the last block and clamored can be heard through the walls. Slowly the noise died down and Montressor absconded to let Fortunato repose. Of course, then Fortunato perceived what he had done.
The rest of the story takes place in the catacomb. In the basement of the catacomb is a graveyard. The passageway is claustrophobic, dripping with nitre from its proximity to a water source, and always leads downward. Fortunato doesn't know this, but he is descending a stairway to Hell rather than to sample a rare wine. They walk through the graveyard in the middle of the night. Not to forget that they are drunk and are getting more drunk. The room gets smaller and smaller and the cold keeps on increasing. It is gloomy and they only have 2 torches. This is a setting that has all the elements, a perfect gothic story would have. Next lets look at the atmosphere. In the story the purpose of Montresor is very clear and Fortunato is completely unaware of it. This creates an atmosphere of suspense, mystery and horror. It is dark, oppressiveness, and full of strange sounds. Another element that Poe uses in his stories is the Psychology of the people. Montresor's motive for murder is vague. He refers to thousand injuries but never gives a specific reason for doing so. It can be concluded that Montresor is insane but even this is questionable because of intricate details of the plot. In this story the intentions of Montresor hurting Fortunato is very clear. Though this is not directly implied in the story but with every passing minute it becomes even more clear. But what will be Fortunato's punishment is still not clear. And that makes the plot
As they walk into Montresor’s damp vaults to get the wine, it is apparent that the narrator sent all his servants to the carnival to guarantee that only he and Fortunato were at the vaults at the time. After Fortunato is heavily intoxicated with wine, Montresor ceases his moment and chains him up to a stone wall, and finally buries him alive. From the moment the two get
wine cellar catacombs of Montresor’s house. The setting of most of the story, the wine cellar