Descriptive Essay About Montresor

He will tell me...." said Montresor. ” Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry" said Fortunato. (Poe PG. 374). The quote shows that Fortunato is cocky, this is shown when Montresor is trying to tell Fortunato that he can have someone else taste test the wine instead of him and he gets hurt because he thinks that he is the best wine taster in the land.

Montresor teases Fortunato quite a few times while leading him deep into the catacombs. In the beginning of the story, Montresor tells Fortunato that he has purchased a wine called Amontillado but cannot be sure that it

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.

It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! You have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh! I have suffered, suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. We shall be everything to each other.”

The night air was heavy with silence. Clouds drifted across a calm sky, and a full moon shone in the distance. In a small hut on the outskirts of the valley, an old man lay in bed, awake in the peaceful slumber of the village. His breaths came in rattling gasps, his forehead burned, and his joints felt stiff with pain. He shifted on the blankets, his withered hands clenched in fists as he tried to suppress the wave of bitter memories coming to him. His life had been nothing more than work, loss, tragedy. He remembered all of his hope, his ambition, in his youth, and he smiled bitterly. No one would remember him as the man that he had once hoped he would become. Now, as his breathing became heavier and he felt himself fading on the brink of

I would have not trusted the narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado". he acts very sneaky because I've nocied he's trying to get I would have not trusted the narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado". he acts very sneaky because he's trying to get Fortunato more and more drunk. He's leading Fortunato to that catacomb which is very

When Montresor mentioned to him that he received the pipe of what passed to be for the Amontillado (179), he was completely astonished and nothing mattered more to him than holding and taking a look at it to make sure that it was the authentic cask of the Amontillado. The fact that this man was determined on actually taking a look at the cask, made him forget about what was really going on in his surroundings, nothing mattered more than that, not even his current health condition. This man was vulnerable. Poe states, “ ‘My friend, no. It is not the engagement, but the severe cold with which I perceive you are afflicted. The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre.’ ‘Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing. Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as for Luchresi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado.’” (180). Fortunato becomes completely careless about himself, the only thing he truly cares about is taking a look at the Amontillado and he assures Montresor that only he could distinguish it, applying that he must take him and he must be the one who takes a look at it. He becomes completely obsessed and closed mined with the cask of Amontillado, nothing mattered, not even his own life. This cask becomes the casket for Fortunato’s hopes, dreams, and

that he will have someone else taste the Amontillado, knowing that by doing this Fortunato will feel compelled to taste the wine himself. “As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchresi. If anyone has a critical turn I is he. He will tell me…” In addition to being manipulative and vengeful, Montressor also displays condescending traits. Montressor addresses Fortunato in the catacombs by saying, “...your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy as once I was. You are a man to be missed.”

This alone shows that Montresor is trying to get the unknown person whom he is speaking with to sympathize with him.

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The narrator takes full advantage of this vice when, upon running into an already drunk Fortunato at a celebration during carnival season, he makes an offer he knows Fortunato cannot resist. The narrator tells him that he has received “a pipe of what passes for Amontillado” (392), and he asks Fortunato to come with him to verify the validity of the brandy. The narrator continues his parade of false concern for Fortunato when, before taking him to check the Amontillado, he expresses concern for a cough Fortunato has, and even offers to help him get it checked out (393). This display by the narrator causes Fortunato to not suspect what the narrator really has in store for him, and it serves as another examples of the narrator’s unreliable and deceitful

He is surprised to find the real Amontillado, but his astonishment does not last long. He is really frightened by Montresor’s behavior. First, he regains his consciousness completely and gives “a low moaning cry”. When he finds out that Montresor intends to kill me, he is terrified and bursts out “a succession of loud and shrill screams”. Fortunato is so terrified, helpless and desperate that he has a mental breakdown and becomes insane.

It has come to the time to end the partnership between us. I am afraid I can no longer provide all the work and judgements for any further cases. I suppose you can say our business is over with. Throughout my years I have become very understanding of many matters. As of right now I suspect the many questions racing through your mind. You must be furious and I assume you are not hesitant to send a letter my way. But let me tell you to be hesitant, for my life is coming to an end. Fear and pity me not, for I shall explain and be very concise within this letter. Currently I stand stranded in the bloodiest of all countries, France. The “wine” is everywhere, there is not spot where one cannot see wine. The wine rushes through the streets like a river and fills the many cracks of the

Giorgio De Chirico. Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure), 1914, Oil on canvas. (pg.39). This painting is regarded as multidimension perspective. This painting manipulates angles, lines, and using shadows to fill the space in the middle, this shading direct my eyes to other areas of the painting. There is a prison tower with a clock in it. This may well symbolize time is, to some extent, a prison guard, or time is a prison sentence. There are two figures walking up towards another figure, garbed in white. At first glance, I assumed this may be figure is God, and these two souls are reaching their fate, but a more engaging look, it’s smoke clouds from a train. The two figures are not in motion, but is facing each other as if they are

When the sun slowly peeps over the range of mountains, birds shake the morning dew off their feathers and give a cheerful song that would lift even the most sorrowful of spirits. A light fog wraps around the mountain range, reaching to touch every bit of life thriving there. The slight chill in the air is enough to give a gentle shiver, but not enough for the need of a jacket. A breeze tickles the trees, making their leaves shake and sway with laughter. Sunlight seeps in past the thick canopy of branches with hopes of being able to reach the damp mountain earth. The mountains are the best place to live to be relaxed, see the most beauty, and never get bored.