Montresor Argumentative Essay

Is killing someone justifiable? In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado that question is one that could be asked. The short story is about a man named Montresor and his quest to get revenge on his foe Fourtando who has apparently insulted Montresor. Around the time of the carnival season Montresor leaves his house to go find Fourtando and get his revenge he tells none of his servants to leave his house, but Montresor knows once that he has left the servants will leave and go to the carnival. Montresor who is dressed in all black finds a intoxicated Fourtando who is a professional wine taster, and then Montresor claims to have some Amontillado wine but he is not sure whether is genuine or if it s a fraud. In order to intimidate Fortunato and to lure him in, Montresor tells him he is going to get Luchresi another wine taster in the area, but Fortunato tells him no thus Montresor plan comes together and then he leads hims to the catacombs and chains Fortunato up where he leaves him to die. In my opinion the first question should be what did Fortunato do that was so bad for Montresor to want to and eventually kill him? Then the next question would be was the killing justifiable? In my opinion the killing was not justifiable. The reason the killing was not justifiable is because of the fact that nobody deserves to die such a brutal death. Another reason why the killing

In “The Cask of Amontillado” the main protagonist Montresor is an interesting character. He is much like a small child when the child gets victimized. The child will throw fits and do whatever he or she can to hurt or get revenge on the person inflicting wrong on them. Montresor does the same to Fortunato, for some kind of family affair, in which Montresor lost his social status. Montresor is no fool about killing Fortunato, and he takes his time to make sure that everything will go right. Montresor is clever in ways of getting away with Fortunato’s murder. However, the thought that baffles readers the most is that Montresor feels no remorse, sympathy, or regrets about killing Fortunato. All of these traits make Montresor the compelling

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

Mr. Montresor stated that he intended to murder Mr. Fortunato, and even went as far as planning Mr. Fortunato’s tedious death, I find this very questionable of Mr. Montresor’s innocence. Mr. Montresor also hadn’t received a harmful threat from Mr. Fortunato, just insults; nor did Mr. Montresor receive any physical harm that would endanger Mr. Montresor’s life, therefore Mr. Fortunato was an innocent man, which is also quite questionable to Mr. Montresor’s innocence.

It would appear as if the prosecution has the upper hand in this case. The crime scene shows traces of crime preparation. My client did take many precautions as he schemed Fortunato's death. But what we don’t want to overlook is that there are several indicators present in my client’s behavior that shows that he acted as one with mental illness. Montresor is the unfortunate victim of psychopathic tendencies. We can see flashes of his psychopathy in his behavior towards Fortunato.

Throughout the short story, Montresor appears to be murderous and mentally insane. As Montresor continues to tell his story, the reader learns that Montresor is not only a murder and insane, but he is a narcissist as well. Montresor displays the characteristics for this to be true. When Montresor decided to take revenge on Fortunato, he was persistent in doing it himself for his own satisfaction. As his plan began to go along perfectly, he was very pleased with himself. In addition, the cause for Montresor’s revenge plan was because of an insult. The death of Fortunato was not justifiable by his actions. It was merely a prize for Montresor

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Montresor killed Fortunato because he supposedly hurt and insulted Montresor. Even if Fortunato did insult him, Montresor should not have killed him. Some people think he should not be punished, but Montresor planned the murder, their was no reason for him to kill Fortunato, and he is sane.

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Many readers seem to come to this conclusion, but Elena Baraban, author of the article “The Motive for Murder ‘The Cask of Amontillado’,” claims, “Such interpretation, however, seems to make certain details in the elaborate structure of the story unnecessary and this, in turn, goes against Poe’s approach to composition.” Even someone who is mentally unstable has an underlying motivation when it comes to murder. I can’t see Montresor being completely insane for the fact that even after half a century he feels what he has done was not wrong, and he does claim that an insult provoked his revenge. Baraban expands on finding the motive by defining the word insult, which is to brag, boast, vaunt, etc. in an insolent way; assail with offensive dishonoring speech or action; or treat disrespectfully. This definition gives a baseline motive for Montresor’s vengeance. “The Cask of Amontillado” becomes clear to be something more related to social status and power relations. Baraban claims that Fortunato is more powerful than Montresor, but Montresor’s lineage is obviously more noble from his expansive catacombs. Montresor’s name is the play on “my treasure” and Fortunato does not see that the Montresor’s were a great family; Fortunato’s name eludes to the word fortune, and a Fortunato is someone that is rich by chance. Their social standings become very clear throughout the course of the

He is characterized as nuts through his enjoyment of death. No man should enjoy another's torture, no matter what they did to them. Montresor not only enjoys it, he is the person torturing Fortunato. He is crazy and Poe shows this through how Montresor carries out his revenge. While he is crazy, he was very good at hiding his true intentions. Montresor hides his hatred for Fortunato, he pretends to care for him, and want him to succeed, but he actually wants to kill him. Up until he started burying Fortunato, Montresor did a good job of hiding his ”needs”. He kept acting like he wanted Fortunato to go home and rest, but under all that he was secretly provoking Fortunato to continue. “...to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.” (pg 372). Fortunato not only murdered a man, but he gained trust before he crushed his opponent. He completely tricked and plotted against Fortunato with no remorse or guilt. He is so inhumane that he felt it necessary to act as a friend, to show kindness to only see him die at his hand in the end. Montresor is so deceitful, we know this through Poe's use of characterization. He hides what he really feels only to make the result that much more enjoyable for him. Montresor puts on a fake, happy persona to hide the flame of revenge that burns within him. He not only doesn’t regret his murder, but he enjoys that way he played it out. Montresor likes how

The first-person, whom we later discover to be named Montresor, announces immediately that someone named Fortunato has hurt him over and over again and has insulted him.

In the short story “the Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor kills Fortunato by bringing him down to his wine cellar and chaining him to the wall. He left him there because Fortunato denigrated him in the past and he wanted revenge. Even though Fortunato insulted Montresor in the past, I still think he shouldn't have killed him. For several reasons, Montresor should not be killed by capital punishment.

People that commit murder should be punished equally to the crime that they did. In this case, Montresor murdered Fortunato so Montresor should be punished equally to the crime he did. It “5 Arguments for and Against the Death Penalty”, “ If murder is the willful deprivation of a victim’s right to life, then the justice system’s willful deprivation of the criminal’s right to the same is- even if overly severe- a punishment which fits the

Revenge is it worth it? It can lead to several different outcomes. It is shown in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. When one insult told by Fortunato, it triggers Montresor to get revenge. So while he finds Fortunato out in a carnival, he lowers him into his family’s catacombs. There he surprises him by tying him up, and burying him alive! He achieved his goal by his intelligent choices, ability to manipulate, and his warm attitude.