Montresor's Argumentative Essay

Montresor tells the story in detail of how he leads a man, Fortunato, to his death. Montresor repeatedly expresses the need to kill Fortunato because he has done something to insult him and he must pay for it with his life. Montresor tells readers early in the story that he is going to be lying to Fortunato’s face by acting one way, but thinking about killing him the whole time. He says "I continued, as was my wont, to smile in

In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor is guilty of the cold-blooded murder of Fortunato and should go to jail for his crime. Montresor speaks of the “thousand injuries” Fortunato caused him and, more recently, the “insult” that Montresor cannot forgive. Vowing to seek retribution, Montresor comments on the importance of ensuring his own innocence throughout the process of revenge. He goes out of his way to be friendly to Fortunato. Other evidence that supports the crime as being preconceived includes Montresor preying on Fortunato’s weakness, his love of wine and his conceited nature. He praises Fortunato on his knowledge of wine and taunts him with the full barrel that he just purchased asking him for his expert opinion. In preparation

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

Furthermore, Montresor is very prepared or tactical. He plans to get Fortunato drunk; it works. In the falling action of “The Cask of Amontillado”, Fortunato’s drunken state wears off, but comes to see that it isn’t in his favor. “I had scarcely

Montresor disguises his hate for Fortunato as a friend willing to let him taste a unique wine. Montresor is also a rich man that is has a high social class placement. He leaves Fortunato to die in an inauditory place for rescue. This elucidates the carefulness that Montresor takes in trapping Fortunato. On the contrary, Mrs. Grierson has always been looked upon as lonely widow.

Another interesting thing is how the story is full of irony and foreshadowing. From the beginning Montresor is determined to kill Fortunato. He on the other hand displays no uneasiness in Montresor's company, and is unaware that his friend was plotting against him. For example, the setting in which the story takes place, is during the carnival. It is supposed to be a time of celebration and happiness for everybody. However, in the tale it is a time of revenge and death. The way the narrator treats his enemy is the clearest example of ironic elements. Montresor acts in the most natural and friendly way towards Fortunato. Also he uses reverse psychology in order to fool him a number of times. He claims that he needs his knowledge to ascertain that the wine he has purchased is indeed Amontillado. Further more he says,”As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If any one has a critical turn, it is he.” It is believed that Luchesi is a competitor of Fortunato, so he is forced by his pride to accompany Montresor to the vaults. During their way down in to catacombs, the twisted mind of Montresor, dares to give Fortunato a chance to come back, do to the dampness and foulness rampant in the vaults and Fortunato’s state of health. He of course refuses. Other memorable lines in the story are given by Montresor in response to Fortunato saying, “I shall not die of a cough.” To what he replies, “True-true”. And finally the story ends with Montresor’s words, “In

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortunato thought he was going to taste a fine wine. Montresor accesses his catacombs and leads Fortunato away. He gets hoodwinked by Montresor and when

From this point of view, as Lewis points out, one can easily relate Fortunato's drunken artifical sweetness to that of imitation amontillado. Montresor's disgust with Fortunato would then mirror Fortunato's disgust with imposter alcohols. Upon further analysis however, Lewis suggests the possibility that it is actually Fortunato's lack of a protective layer , or "fleur" in terms of amontillado, rather than his spurious nature, that offends Montresor. Using this idea as a basis for thought, Lewis expands the correlations between amontillado and the characters' relationships and actions to include the alcohol cask and Fortunato's casket, both containing extra space; the failure of either Fortunato or poor sherry to become properly refined; the fool who "cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado" and the fool Fortunato himself proved to be in his oblivion to his plight. Additionally Lewis points out that Fortunato's alcoholism may have caused both this oblivion and the "injuries" he had placed on Montressor in the past. In this case, Montresor would have succeeded at exploiting the very weakness in Fortunato that had caused the damage for which he saught

(1-2) this certain part in the story explains how patient Montresor was in order to complete his goal. Another part in the story shows more patience. He plays with Fortunato by leading him into the catacombs and talking about this great wine thats at the end. Montresor uses his drunkenness to get him far enough away from the opening of the catacombs. “Your health is precious.

When Montresor finds Fortunato on the streets during Carnival he tells him that he has Amontillado and uses reverse physiology to get Fortunato to come with him. When they leave Fortunato puts on “…a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaure closely about my person. And suffered him to hurry…” Montresor makes it obvious that he does not want anyone to see him with Montresor and the reader realizes this but Fortunato is so drunk is oblivious. When they finally get to Montresor’s palazzo none of the workers are home so there are no witnesses. Montresor bring Fortunato to where all of the wine is stored and “took from their scones two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato, bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults…Passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed.” The setting went from the brightly colored, loud, populated streets to an underground, musty, dark catacomb which makes the story creepy. Also even though Montresor is bringing Fortunato down there to kill him he tells him to “be cautious as he followed” which is dramatic irony because Fortunato thinks he is being serious and only Montresor and the reader knows he is not. Montresor and Fortunato are walking through the catacomb and “The

Montresor tricks Fortunato into coming to his house by telling him that bought a pipe of Amontillado. He wanted to get Fortunato in his house therefore he could get his revenge and get away with it. He used his expertise in fooling to get Fortunato to come over. “He prided himself on his connoisseur-ship in wine”.

Fortunato and never really cared about his health. After Fortunato tells Montresor that he will be fine and that they should keep going Montresor agrees with him to continue on with his plan. “But let us proceed to the Amontillado.” Montresor knows that he isn't really taking Fortunato to the Amontillado and that he's actually taking him to get his revenge.

Montresor realizes that Fortunato was the reason Montresor started drinking and why he lost all his wealth. His plan now is to seek revenge on Fortunato once he finds him again. Which kills Fortunato.

Fortunato is characterized as an easily persuaded person who is competitive in wine tasting. Montresor lures him to his fate as his consequence and for someone who beat and tortured someone he is really drunk and really clueless. In the story “Cask of Amontillado” the author Edgar Allen Poe uses the events before Fortunato’s death to characterize Montresor as a shifty character, and Fortunato as a terrible drunk. These events lead into consequence and show how Fortunato’s death came to be.

Summary of Text-As the story opens up we are introduced with Montresor, a man that has been insulted by Fortunato and is looking for revenge. He decides to uses Fortunato’s love of wine against him. He plans carefully in way that doesn’t put himself at risk. Montresor uses the carnival season to pull away Fortunato without suspicion. Montresor also uses Fortunato’s ego and anxiety to pull him down into the graveyard. As they move throughout the graveyard Montresor warn him about the nitre and asks him various times if he wants to go back and comeback another day. Fortunato resists to go back and decides to go through with the task at hand. Montresor also uses wine and the effect of nitre to weaken Fortunato and make him easier to trap. When they arrive at the location where the Amontillado is supposable located, Montresor chains Fortunato and then begins building a wall to suffocate him. As Montresor comes to the last layer Fortunato laugh and thinks that Montresor is paying him a joke. After a final plead, Fortunato realizes that Montresor is not playing him a joke. Finally, Montresor places the last stone and completes his revenge.