How Does Montresor Get His Revenge

Conflict: For Montresor to revenge himself for Fortunato’s insult, he has to get away with it – if Fortunato can revenge him back,

Revenge can bring out many people’s inner evil. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”, the main character, Montresor carefully plans revenge against Fortunato. Montresor is a man who vows vengeance against a professional wine taster named Fortunato. The wine taster insults Montresor, and he had enough of it. The insult sets him off and he plans a deadly and successful revenge. Throughout the story, Montresor attentively plans his revenge against Fortunato just like an expert.

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

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

Edgar Allen Poe portrays Montresor as a connoisseur of revenge in “The Cask of Amontillado” by showing how he planned everything out perfectly and used Fortunato's Ego to his advantage. Montresor knew that Fortunato, being a connoisseur of fine wine, would be easily distracted for a pipe of amontillado, especially during carnival. That is why Montresor ensured that his house would be empty during carnival. He did this by saying, “ I had told them I should not return until morning, and had given the explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their disappearance, once and all, as soon as my back was turned.” He knew he could have his revenge and not have witnesses by telling his staff this.

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

It is indicated that in the past that Fortunato has hurt Montresor many times, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” However, there were never any insults or unkind acts actually mentioned in the story. It is exactly the opposite. Fortunato was friendly and helpful towards Montresor. From the very beginning of the story, one can obviously see that Montresor thinks that Fortunato has wronged him. “He had a weak point-this Fortunato-although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared.” This line shows that Montresor’s plan was well thought out. There is not any indication of what Fortunato thinks about Montresor. It can only be assumed that he trusts him do to the fact that he follows Montresor into the catacombs. It is up until the last moment, before the last brick is laid, that Fortunato believes this is all a joke. “Ha! Ha! Ha! – He! He! He! – a very good joke, indeed-an excellent jest.” Montresor is successful in his plan for vengeance. He succeeds in having Fortunato follow him into the catacombs and with great ease, had him up against the wall and shackled. Then tier-by-tier, Montresor constructed Fortunato’s tomb of bricks around him. When Montresor called out to him, he heard nothing and thus his plan was a success. “In pace requiescat!”

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.

We soon see foreshadowing of Fortunato's impending doom when the issue of Montresor's shield of arms is brought into the conversation as "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.". Even more appropriate is Montresor's family motto, translated as, "No one wounds me with impunity". Such a visual depiction and mental conviction due to family honor and history creates all the more impetus in Montresor to carry out the punishment that Fortunato deserves for wronging him, and more likely the family honor. When Montresor finally captures Fortunato in the catacombs, the climax of his precisely calculated deed, he revels in the sound of Fortunato's chains rattling, and "that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labors and sat down upon the bones". However, his satisfaction soon turns to apprehension when suddenly "a succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back". He hesitates at this moment, when his revenge is sweetest, when he should bask in the suffering of his "enemy", and finds himself contemplating the shrill screams of his captive! He does eventually compose

Montresor wanted to inflict harm on Fortunato for the embarrassment he felt. The narrator of the story believes that Fortunato has insulted him many times. Poe states, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” (Poe, 238). This reveals that because of these insults, Montresor plans to execute his plan for revenge. Moreover, Montresor’s build up hatred towards Fortunato forced him to take this step. The text states, “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” (Poe, 238). Poe uses this quote to clarify that Montresor takes this matter pretty seriously. This seriousness causes him to not forgive Fortunato. Instead of letting his anger go, he nourished it, so his wrath grew. The significant clash in the story is in between Montresor and Fortunato.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor gets revenge on Fortunato through manipulation. Montresor entices Fortunato to go into his basement because he has a new wine Montresor wants Fortunato to taste. Montresor is eager for Fortunato to enter his basement because Montresor wants to accomplish revenge on Fortunato. Montresor has two items he is focusing on for his revenge to work how Montresor wants it to play out. The two items he is focusing on are, not getting caught and making sure Fortunato knows that Montresor carries out the revenge. So, their journey begins entering the vaults where Fortunato says, “‘Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.’ ‘And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match

Montresor has held this grudge against his friend who according to him had given him “thousands of injuries.” This grudge he has makes him vindictive as he seeks revenge against Fortunato for his insult against him. His family’s motto is “Nemo me impune lacessit" meaning “No one attacks me with impunity”. The motto implies that the entire Montresor family history is filled with acts of revenge. Montresor becomes obsessed with his vengeance and when he has Fortunato chained to the wall he mocks at his cries and moaning, “I replied to the yells of him who clamored. I re-echoed, I aided, I surpassed them in volume and in strength.” Montrosor never mentions what the insulting act was which can tell us that the actual act wasn’t as important as him just getting some sort of revenge.

Montresor, starts the story by stating that he has been constantly insulted by his former acquaintance, Fortunato. He wants to execute his revenge, but in a way that doesn’t make him look suspicious. He knows Fortunato has an Achilles heel for wine and uses that weakness against him. Montresor manipulated Fortunato to go with him to explore ancient catacombs with promises of rich and finely aged wine, while treating him to regular wine along the way. He planned to have a trowel with him to easily set up the bricks to trap him and when Fortunato suggested Luchesi come with them, Montresor had a contingency plan to reassure Fortunato that he is a better wine taster than Luchesi. After Montresor gets Fortunato heavily intoxicated, he tries to

Montresor can use a variety of different ways to take revenge instead of killing Fortunato. I’m of the opinion that Fortunado must have ruined Montresor’s reputation or hurt his feelings so he decided to kill him in order to protect his pride. In this situation, it is not necessary for Montresor to kill Fortunado. He can use his intelligence, cleverness and ingenuity to ironize and satirize Fortunato. Furtheremore, he can find some methods enabling Furtunato to reveal the genuity connoisseur of wine in public. If the truth is brought into light, Furtunato will definitely feel embarrassed and humiliated. Because many men do not like getting their pride hurt and he is mentioned : “ You are rich, respected, admired, beloved” (16) but just a deceiver

To begin with, Montresor’s infuriated mood toward Fortunato is a crucial component in his reasoning for the murder of Fortunato. Without it, the affair would not have taken place. In the beginning of the text, right off the bat, Montresor explains how he’s tried to ignore the malicious comments or actions that Fortunato did, but Montresor couldn’t help himself when he began to disrespect him, “The man Fortunato had done me a thousand wrongs. I bore them as best I could. But when he began to insult me, I vowed revenge”(Poe 67). This citation depicts how he became angry and almost offended of what Fortunato said or did to him. He was gradually getting hurt by Fortunato’s ongoing behavior, but in