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butter and jelly. Everyday we would constantly be exploring the chambers underneath our houses, fascinated by the expensive wines our families assiduously harvested. We drank our first drinks together, an amontillado, but Montresor thought it was a sherry. We enjoyed the art of wine, the taste, everything about wine, we decided to make profession out of it. Tough times hit my family and I, we were barely able to keep our castle, so my father had to sell all of our wines. My pride prohibited

One is a story of revenge and murder, the other a story of greed and materialism. On the surface, the short stories appear quite different, but at their heart, a similar drive beats within the three main characters, determining their actions and altering the pathways of their lives. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe is a story of the proud Montresor, obsessed with getting revenge on the foolish Fortunato. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, is a story of a beautiful woman who felt she

appeared to Fortunato as nothing more than a friendly encounter. Montresor states, "As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If any one has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me--" Fortunato states, "Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry. Let us go"(237). As they continue their descent further into the vault, Montresor notices Fortunato excessively coughing and says, "Come, we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once

“It is equally unredressed when the average fails to make himself as such to him who has done the wrong”(58). In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator, Montresor has this belief that Fortunato is trying to insult him and his family. Montresor found his chance to take revenge against Fortunato during the annual carnival. Montresor made Fortunato believe that he was leading him to taste some Amontillado, but in fact, he is leading Fortunato to his death. He leads him to his family

The poem The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is about a man named Montresor who kills another man named Fortunato because of what he did wrong to him.The main character Montresor was not justified in killing fortunate. Fortunato did not know what was happening and was taken by surprise when he figured out Montresor was going to kill him.In the story, Poe says“ It was succeeded.....over our wine --he! he! He!’ ”After being locked up, Fortunato’s drunkenness has worn off and he had started

Did the narrator really kill the beloved jester Fortunato or was it one of his many lies? In the story ¨The Cask of Amontillado¨ the reader can´t trust the narrator to accurately portray the sequence of events because he is a liar, psychopath and a killer. Montresor, the narrator, is definitely psycho since he prides himself in “killing Fortunato.” Montresor lied to Fortunato many times in the story, inferring that he lied about the murder. The first piece of evidence supports the claim of

The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is about Montresor, tells an unspecified person, who knows him very well, of the day he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow nobleman. Angry over numerous injuries and some unspecified insult, Montresor plots to murder his "friend" during Carnival, while the man is drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jester's motley. Montresor tells us that his servants are away from the house for the night, so they have the house to themselves. Montresor's home is large,

Through the character of Montressor, the dark side of human nature is exemplified. Through the thoughts, acts, and words of Montressor, one is able to see him carry out his devious plan for revenge on Fortunato. Indicated through his words, Montressors’ true character is shown. His revengeful tone sets the nature for what is to follow throughout his story. Montressors’ motivation stems from the hurt Fortunato has caused him many times. Montressor states, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had

Amontillado is a classically known amber-colored, medium-dry sherry wine, and in the case of Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, it is the taste for Amontillado that results in the unfortunate and rather untimely death of Fortunato at the hands of the maniacal Montresor. Revenge is something that no one should have to experience; however, sadly sometimes, it is an inevitability that cannot be avoided. The Cask of Amontillado exposes Poe’s dark side and cruelty towards society and the world. In this

destruction. Fortunato Believes that his “connoisseurship in wine” is far more advance than anyone else in the area, especially Luchesi and Montresor. He states, “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.” While certainly this remark is intended to be derisive, the fact that Amontillado is a type of Sherry could not escape Montresor. He is asserting that his knowledge has degrees of subtlety that go beyond the normal. Montresor, in fact agrees that Fortunato is a “virtuoso” when it comes to wine