Characterization of Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Montresor antagonizes Fortunado through the whole story with the allure of the Amontillado. There are at least three occasions that Montresor talks of finding Lushesi instead of Fortunado to try the wine to authenticate it. Montresor obviously knew that it irritated Fortunado when he spoke of having Luchesi come to authenticate the wine. This was almost like a slap in the face for Fortunado and made him want to come to the tombs even more. This move by Montressor shows how desperate he is to keep Fortunado interested in coming to the tombs. It shows how he has calculated his plan of revenge and is trying to execute his master plan.

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.

Montresor plots and thinks about his anger throughout the whole book. He makes a whole plan to kill Fortunato and not get caught. Montresor quotes “The thousand injuries I had borne” (Edgar Allan Poe)pg 61 proving Montresor had been insulted and is now angry. Fortunato had insulted Montresor and now Montresor is furious. Montresor is so furious that he has planned the perfect crime to

"The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories. In this story Poe introduces two central characters and unfolds a tale of horror and perversion. Montresor, the narrator, and Fortunato, one of Montresor's friends, are doomed to the fate of their actions and will pay the price for their pride and jealousy. One pays the price with his life and the other pays the price with living with regret for the rest of his life. Poe uses mystery, irony, and imagery to create a horrifying, deceptive, and perverse story.

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.

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.

     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.

    In the short story the characters do not have a massive change during the story and the plan of revenge was not that confident. Montresor wanted Fortunato to think he cared about his health

He narrates with such passionate anger, the fact that he wanted to kill Fortunato so much he acts as if he’s beneath him and takes the time to play all the mind games just to hear him scream out for help in the ending. The depths of darkness in this story is very interesting even at Fortunato’s death bed he laughs at the sheer irony, for he is wearing a jester’s uniform and he is the one who has been fooled. In exact words Montresor would admit the gruesome surroundings to the catacomb like structure, ‘’its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead’’ – Montresor act

It is truly awful that the reader is expected to side with Montresor because of some unnamed insult Fortunato has committed upon him. Montresor is adamant he must exact his revenge on Fortunato, despite the fact that he is very friendly with Fortunato up until he locks him up for eternity. The reader is supposed to realize that he has reasons for his actions “and these are reasons we should he able to understand. Therein lies a deeper horror in the story” (White). Montresor is far too obsessed with revenge to realize the dark evil of his acts.

In the story “The Cask of Amontillado”, my first thought about Montresor was that he must have mental issues. There’s no way any sane person would go through those lengths to revenge someone over insults. I couldn’t put my finger on it. Something Fortunato did to him had to have drove him “mad”. Throughout the story, you question his motives.

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is thought to be one of his most popular vengeful short novels. The two main characters, Montresor and Fortunato are re-acquainted friends who meet each other at The Carnival. Montresor has intentionally planned to lure Fortunato to his own death by deceiving him to believe that Fortunato is coming to Montresor's family catacombs to taste a fine wine “Amontillado”. After Montresor leads Fortunato into the crypts, Montresor eventually chains Fortunato up in a secluded section and mortars him behind a brick wall while he is still alive. The story ends with Montresor throwing a flaming torch into the small opening while he continues to put the last brick in place, essentially burning Fortunato alive. Edgar Allan Poe creates conflict between characters Montresor and Fortunato which primarily creates the major theme of revenge in this story. Edgar Allan Poe depicts setting in this novel by portraying death by illustrating human bones, within a cold and damp crypt to contribute to the eerie theme of revenge. Montresor's characterization is expressed through the betrayal of his friend, which adds another element to the theme of revenge in this story. In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe utilizes conflict, setting, and characterization to create a theme of revenge.

I know Montresor is evil cause he left Fortunato to suffer till he died. Montresor could of kill Fortunato faster but he decided to make him suffer his death. Montresor said, “For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed

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

In the story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, he writes about a man named Montressor who for some reason (one that we do not know) vows revenge on a well respected and even feared guy named Fortunato, to better understand the story though you will want to know about the author Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe has been a huge influence to many writers in short stories. Most of his tales deal with detective, and gothic horror tales, and in most of his tales readers live the story through first person narrator like in "The Cask of Amontillado" who tells the tale. The fact