Fortunato In The Cask Of Amontillado

There was never a scarier writer than the mysterious Edgar Allan Poe.One of his many great stories includes”The “Cask of Amontillado”. This is a story of two men that are friends. One of the friends, Fortunato insults Montresor in either a physical or verbal way. Edgar Allen Poe loves to keep reader wondering so he leaves the insult pretty open-ended. Later on in the story, Montresor looks to get revenge on Fortunato in a very clever and deceitful manner. Through his use of carefully constructed foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony, Poe creates a mood that is both chilling and horrifying in “The Cask of Amontillado”.

The lavish black roquelaire absorbed nearly all of the light in the surrounding area which perfectly made a silhouette of Montresor’s figure. The smell of nitre permeated throughout the air like a plague. The smell was so overpowering that I nearly passed out. As I hung there, bound to the wall by cold rusted chains, I could make out the twisted smile of Montresor as he removed his silken mask. I looked him in the eye and could see the hate behind them. It seemed to be more primal and real than anything else I had ever seen. After staring me down, Montresor hastily produced that godforsaken trowel from underneath his cloak and started to lay layer after layer of brick, starting to enclose me into this horrible room. My last view of Montresor

"I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." With these ferverous words from the introductory paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe's Cask of Amontillado, the story of Montresor's revenge begins. Poe repeatedly stresses the need for revenge due to bitterness and resentment in Montresor's character towards Fortunato, but more importantly, stress is placed on revenge by which the victim realizes their injustice towards the redresser. Unfortunately, it seems that Montresor is denied this pure and encompassing revenge when his victim,

After a couple of drinks Montresor warns Fortunato about the danger of consuming this wine because of the high levels of nitre that it has, foreshadowing for the audience, telling us the venom Fortunato is consuming. When Fortunato starts to feel bad Montresor offers him a drink to make him feel better, this is not an act of sympathy, it's just to keep Fortunato alive until his burial ground; and also to keep the audience waiting for the action to come.

Throughout the story, one of Fortunato’s main weaknesses is his pride in his knowledge of wine. Fortunato “[prides] himself on his connoisseurship in wine” due to the riches and status it gives him, and Montresor takes this into account in his plan when he tells Fortunato that he found amontillado, a rare wine, in the catacombs (Poe

     Revenge can be sweet, but in this case it is just down right grotesque! In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” it talks about a gentlemen named Montressor and how he is angry at Fortunato for insulting him in the past. Montressor will not let this go unpunished, so he thinks up a clever scheme to get back at him. This plan is in a way, ingenious but most definitely insane and crazy.

Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Cask of Amontillado” is the story of two men, Fortunato and Montressor. This story is a prime example of how the saying “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may never hurt me” is false. Basically, Fortunato was rude and insulted Montressor, but instead of ignoring the bastard Montressor lowkey went too far with the revenge and murdered Fortunato.

He wants an “expert opinion” of the wine eminence. Being intoxicated, friendly and at a gathering would make anyone feel realistic about going with Montresor. “Come let us go,” said Montresor to Fortunato after telling him about the sherry wine (Poe,1200). Montresor took advantage of the fact that he knew Fortunato would be all in on being able to taste the delicate wine. Fortunato wanders along with Montresor to the wine cellar. This is where they go deep into the catacombs. Fortunato gets chained to the wall and then is sealed within the niche and left to die when a brick wall is built in front by Montresor. It would not be possible for anyone to think about looking for a man in a random spot such as that. This is vindication for all the “thousand injuries Montresor has suffered at the hands of Fortunato” (Reynolds 183).

An important element in any story is setting. Authors use setting to convey certain feelings brought on by the character’s surroundings. It also subliminally serves to illustrate the character’s intentions. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe uses the dark, imposing setting to do just that, communicate the underlying theme of the story, being death, revenge and deception.

He is already carefully laying out a blueprint on how to make Fortunato fall into his hands. So, the first thing needed to do in order to punish Fortunato is to intoxicate him. Montresor purposefully gives Fortunato more wine to drink so Fortunato can be irresponsible in his decision

As the story progresses, Montresor devises a careful plan to lure Fortunato to his death trap, but he is careful enough not to place himself at risk. He approaches him at a carnival, and plays on his victim’s weakness for wine by offering to show him a brand of wine akin to the light Spanish sherry, Amontillado (8). The narrator presents an interesting description of his encounter with Fortunato at the carnival; at first expressing dislike for his friend’s behavior by claiming that he approached him with too much warmth since he was drunk, but then he adds that he was extremely delighted to see Fortunato at that particular moment. This illustrates the depth of Montresor’s desire to exert revenge on his friend, since the sole reason of his pleasure at seeing Fortunato is that he knew his plans had taken off, and he anticipated the satisfaction of the act of brutal revenge.

On the hand, Fortunato means fortune, luck, wealth and fate. Montresor does not believe Fortunato is that lucky every time. Thus, Montresor designs his plan carefully in order to eliminate as much error as he can. Fortunato is too drunk to realize what is going on when Montresor locks him to the wall with a chain. Suddenly, there was “ a succession of loud and shrill screams” that frightened Montresor but he pleased to join with the screams. This is because he realizes no one is in the house so no matter how hard he screams, no one is able to hear it at all. Fortunato said“ The voice said- “ Ha1 ha! Ha! – he ! he ! he ! – a very good joke, indeed – an excellent jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo= he! He! He!- over

The thousand injuries of fortunato I had born as I best I could but when he, told the true secret of the carnival to everyone in the city. This happened when we were 10 years old me and Fortunato use to be best friends we use to do everything together we were like brothers. But one day Fortunato found out that he is adopted then he share this news with me and he was crying a lot they I went to my mom and tell her the news she explained to Fortunato that he was adopted by his uncle and aunt 10 years ago when he was a baby they found them on their family boat he mom and dad were really reach in the city. It was night of the carnival when they disappear and nobody could find them then your uncle Justin and Aunt Lisa found you at your house and

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the main character, Montresor, leads his enemy, Fortunato, into his catacombs, and there buries him alive by bricking him up in a niche in the wall; Poe gives no actual reason for this except to say that Montresor has been “insulted” in some way. In his Science Fiction work “Usher II,” Ray Bradbury adopts many of Poe’s works in creating his story—including pieces from “TCoA.” What separates Bradbury’s work from other authors who borrow works and re-imagine them (Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, Geraldine Brooks’s March, and Peter Carrey’s Jack Maggs, for instance), is that “Usher II,” in its imaginative way, is trying to be one with its predecessor. Bradbury seeks to retain Poe’s love of the double

In the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato because he made fun of his family name. For years Montresor claims that Fortunato had, “hurt him”, so Montresor gets Fortunato drunk and tricks him into going to his house. When Fortunato arrives, they both go into Montresor’s basement and Montresor locks Fortunato up in addition to leaving him there to die. Montresor commits a crime by killing Fortunato in his own basement. Some people may argue that Montresor was a madman who only wanted to kill Fortunato because he made fun of Montresor’s family name; nevertheless, it is easy to see why one would believe that Montresor wasn’t a madman and that he had more motives rather than just that one reason to have killed Fortunato. What motivated Montresor to seek revenge on Fortunato was that he had made fun of Montresor’s Family name, had a drinking problem which causes him to lash out and say mean things to Montresor, and because Fortunato thought he knew more about fine wines than Montresor did. Theses motivations were also Fortunato’s weaknesses.