Montresor's Argumentative Essay

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

While confessing his crime, Montresor seems as not having any feeling of guilty due to the peaceful way that he started to narrate at the beginning of the story. But, as soon Montresor started to talk about his feelings of jealousy and hate towards Fortunato, the reader can change the way its reading the story and the point of view towards Montresor. The “Cask of Amontillado” gives an open clue in the beginning of the story of why Montresor killed Fortunato and the motive of madness that he got along the story while confessing his crime. Montresor didn’t start to narrate the story angry or tense but calmly, accepting what he did and how he planned. The “Cask of Amontillado” took place

Even though the main argument against Montresor’s insanity is his compliance to his family’s requirement for a perfect revenge, he fails to fulfill it in several ways, and acts with behaviors that hint to his insanity. One way Montresor fails in his main prerequisite for retaliation against Fortunato is his failure to let Fortunato know the reason for his revenge, one of his family’s main requirements. Montresor must not only let the target know who killed them, but also let them know the reason why. Even though he succeeded in a perfect murder, Montresor destroyed the main purpose of revenge when he did not tell Fortunato why he suffered (Stepp 58). Because of this happening, Montresor’s claim of revenge for honor seems less plausible. Professor

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

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

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.

In “Cask Of Amontillado” Montresor seems to have Fortunato's best interests in mind until his true intentions are revealed through his thoughts, not his actions. This is showing how Montresor is careful in his revenge; Fortunato disrespected Montresor, being the wicked and revengeful person he is must make him pay for his mistake. Therefore, Montresor carefully planned out his attack, he had every detail carefully outlined in his head. He made no mistakes; while Fortunato unknowingly made the biggest mistake of his life. Montresor felt satisfied and happy with the horrible crime he committed. While he was burying Fortunato alive, he enjoyed the screams of his foe, relishing in the fact that he won. “...felt

I believe Montresor is guilty. In the text he says “ I must not only punish, but punish without being punished. Someone might have seen them at the fair before Montresor put his mask on and seen him walking out of the fairgrounds with Fortunato. Montresor is trying to intoxicate Fortunato so he wouldn’t find out what montresor’s

“The force that drives Montresor to commit the horrible murder of Fortunato is his powerful desire for revenge. His first words in the story speak of it: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” The idea of revenge is repeated several times in the opening paragraph. Montresor will not rush to act, he says, but “at length I would be avenged”; he is determined to “not only punish, but punish with impunity.” In seeking revenge, Montresor is acting out the motto of his people, as it appears on the family coat of arms, Nemo me impune lacessit (“No one wounds me with impunity”).” (Bily)

Montresor may have been out of his mind when he committed the crime. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe states, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” When Fortunato insulted Montresor, Montresor was filled with anger. He was filled with so much anger that he couldn't think logically. The article “Capital Punishment in the United States” explains that in 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that it was against the Constitution to sentence people with mental issues to capital punishment. Montresor was so blinded with fury that he drove himself mental for a little while. Therefore, he cannot be a candidate for capital punishment.

Montresor stages the murder as an execution that way Fortunato knew who had killed him, but Montresor’s action were seen as perversity rather than revenge by the lack of using the insult Fortunato had given him as his last

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.

The story starting from the first line “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge,” revenge repeats itself and become very clear as the story further develops. This deep motives of revenge behind the main character might seem a good one to commit this un-moral revenge but the reader can’t put the pieces together on what Fortunato did to upset Montresor this much. Knowing the cause for Montresor revenge is indeed “insult” not “injuries” the reader is mystified by the absence of the cause of this crime. The reader have no way of knowing what exactly caused the thousand injuries or insult can not make any literal conclusion whether Montresor revenge is justifiable. Most commentators come to the conclusion that Montresor is insane. Fortunato trusted Montresor and decided to accept the invitation to Montresor's house. He trusted him to the point where he gets drunk and follows him into the dark catacombs of the hallway. Montresor stated that "at length, I would be avenged" and goes on to say that he will not only "punish, but punish with impunity," which indicates how Montresor is serious on the