How Did Montresor Kill Fortunato

Conclusion: It’s impossible to know how old Montresor is when he kills Fortunato, but in the second to the last line of the story, we learn that the murder happened fifty years ago. So Montresor is probably pushing eighty when he’s telling the story. And he could be far more ancient. More importantly, this conclusion lets us know that Montresor has gotten away with his crime so far. His vengeance has been a success, and he wants us to know it.

Montresor is an evil person because he killed a man. In the story Montresor says ¨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.¨ (Poe, 210) Montresor did not decide to kill Fortunato in the moment. He knew that he would kill him before he did it. This is revealed in the story, when Montresor orders his servants to leave his home, so there would be no witnesses to his plan. Another example to prove this is that Montresor brought a trowel with him into catacombs so that he could seal Fortunato into the wall with bricks and the trowel is used to spread mortar onto the bricks. People

Some people believe that Fortunato should have seen Montresor’s evil plan coming, and that he deserved this fate. At the very beginning of the story, Montresor “The thousand

Fortunato,” ‘I should like your opinion. But if you are too busy, I will get Luchesi’s advice. If anyone is a good judge, he is’”(Poe 68). The citation shows Montresor's deceitfulness since he is trying to guilt Fortunato to come with him. By saying he would like Fortunato's advice, it’s guilting Fortunato to come into the catacombs; only a brilliant and deceitful man could come up with this proposal. I can deduce that without Montresor's deviance, he would’ve never been able to trick Fortunato into the catacombs and to his death. Montresor's deceitfulness also fooled Fortunato to help him in carrying out his own death. Montresor tricks Fortunato into drinking for his cough, intoxicating him more and more with each sip. “I do not wish to alarm you-but you should take care of yourself. A drink of this Medoc will defend you from the damp”( Poe 69). This cite reveals how Montresor is tricking Fortunato into killing himself practically, and helping Montresor succeed. I can summarize that Montresor planned from the beginning to fool Fortunato into helping him by

In my opinion, Montresor is a very clever man. He not only seek revenge, but he also was able to get this man boozed up and murder him. Montresor continuously asked Fortunato if he wanted to have a glass of wine and his reply was always “yes.” He was an intelligent man and knew how to get Fortunato to say yes. “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the

Montresor is untrustworthy from the very beginning. By montresor vowing revenge early on ,the readers cannot trust his unreliable story. The text states , “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had born as long I could”(poe 59). The reader cannot trust montresor because montresor wants to kill fortunato.The reader cannot trust someone who has vengeance on others. There are always two sides to a story there side your side and the truth. And in this story we only got one side. James F. Cooney says “In the course of the narrative we learn how montresor used the cutting edge of irony to give a surgeon’s neatness to his work and to secure the greatest possible delight of himself” (Cooney 15 ). Montresor is trying to kill fortunato. He finds delight in the the act of killing fortunato. His murder

From the very beginning of the story, one can obviously see that Montresor thinks that he has been wronged by Fortunato. His plan for vengeance is easily seen through his actions and his thoughts. "He had a weak

In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor hides the fact that Fortunato has caused him a thousand injuries.. Furthermore, Montresor said, “I vowed revenge.” That is exactly what he did. It's certain that Fortunato has no idea of Montresor's anger, because he is believing him more and more. With this in mind, he sets the trap for Fortunato’s death.

In the story, Montresor says “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe 286). This obviously shows the hatred Montresor holds, and the lengths he will go to get revenge. This also shows that Fortunato had done something to him, thus giving him a reason to hate Fortunato. Another part of the story showing Montresor this way is when he says, “I must not only punish him, but punish with impunity” (Poe

In “The Motive for Murder in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe,” Elena Baraban argues that Montresor did have a motive for killing Fortunato. Montresor was seeking revenge and felt the need to kill Fortunato. Baraban argues that the motive had to do with social status and the way Montresor was living at the time. In this essay, Montresor stated, “ He [Fortunato] was a man to be respected and even feared” (p.6). Also, he mentions, “You are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed” (p.6). These quotes illustrate that even though Fortunato was powerful and fearful, he did not pose a threat to Montresor. The second quote that was mentioned relates to the fact that Montresor was most likely not as rich and socially conspicuous as he used to be in the past.

The third characteristic we see in Montresor is pride. He isn’t modest and boasts even after fifty years about his perfect crime. His pride is what leads him to seek revenge against Fortunato because he doesn’t want him to think he can go with impunity after insulting him. The murder may have not been just out of anger for the insult but more of because he didn’t want to be seen as weak. Montresor takes pride in his extensively planned out scheme and how he plans out all the details.

Readers may feel sorry or compassion for Fortunato getting killed for no particular reason. He got killed from a man with mental disabilities because of an insult we didn’t get to know. Montresor got advantage of the day and the situation Fortunato was in. Also, he used Fortunato’s arrogance into consideration and killed him.

     In a way, Montressor was very clever. He got everyone to do what he wanted without telling them, and everyone being totally oblivious. Reverse phsycology played and important role in this perfect murder. It helped everything run smoothly with getting the servants out of the house and get Fortunato into the catacombs. Yes, this murder was the perfect consequence for what Fortunato had done. It got him down there and made him die, like Montessor’s reputation and fortune. The slow death would have made him think long and hard about what he had done and how he had hurt Montressor.

Then they didn't find the body for 50 years and Montresor was already dead so he didn't get caught but he had to live with that guilt like I mentioned in my introduction. When It said that Montresor killed Fortunato I was like wooo what did he do. I feel like all of what he did was not worth him getting killed. It was dumb of him to go down in the cellar and just to get a amontillado its just wine and I kinda expected it.

At the expense of Fortunato’s life, Montresor’s fulfills his thirst for revenge. Montresor chains Fortunato up and walls him into the room (Poe 5.) After he puts the final stone in place and hearing Fortunato’s pleas become quiet, Montresor says, “My heart grew sick; it must have been the cold (Poe 5).” This implies that this is as far as he can go when it comes to killing someone. He cannot bear the burden of outright taking their life. It develops his character and gives insight on what kind of personality he has. As of result, these clues show that Montresor wants to have little to do with killing Fortunato. Further supporting this fact is what Montresor says at the beginning, “I must not suffer as of a result for taking my revenge (Poe 1.)” Concluding that this means he does not want to feel guilty for Fortunato’s death.