The Amontillado

The first thing Montresor does like an expert is finding his victim’s weak point. As Montresor describes, “He had a weak point-Fortunato...He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine” (Poe 84). Because Montresor found out to Fortunato’s weakness, he was able to follow his plan more smoothly. Throughout the night, Montresor acts counterfeit towards Fortunato, tricking him into thinking they were friends. “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today”(Poe 84). After this, Fortunato believes that they are friends and feels more comfortable around Montresor. ( add transition)

Montresor is intelligent when he exact revenge It says “ I was so pleased to see him, that i thought i should never have done wringing his hand”. This justifies how intelligent montresor is because he already had a plan to take out fortunato. He knew that fortunato was drunk so he

Similarly, “The Cask of Amontillado” also revolves around the theme of confinement because Montresor’s revenge plan involves confining Fortunato in the underground catacombs in a state of intoxication and leaving him there to die. Fortunato’s end is a direct result of him being

Montresor is trying to lure Fortunato to his vaults by telling him that Luchresi can just come and taste the Amontillado because he knows best. He knows Fortunato will freak out by this statement, and then show Montresor that he is wrong in saying that. Indeed, this leads Fortunato down into the catacombs, just so he can prove Montresor wrong. That 's when Montresor will take his final step in his plan to end Fortunato. This event leads to the most suspenseful part in the short story. The reader doesn’t know what Montresor’s next step is going to be in his plan, along with what stupid move is Fortunato going to take to leading himself closer to his death.

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

Montresor’s actions lend to his vengeful and manipulative nature. He lures Fortunato into the catacombs of his home to carry out his plans to kill Fortunato. In the first step of his plan, he boosts Fortunato’s ego by saying that Luchesi was almost as worthy a judge of wine as he. Then Montresor tricks Fortunato into believing that there is an

Montresor teases Fortunato quite a few times while leading him deep into the catacombs. In the beginning of the story, Montresor tells Fortunato that he has purchased a wine called Amontillado but cannot be sure that it

The narrator says, “I had told them [his servants] that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house” (Poe 184). The quote represents rising action as Montresor used reverse psychology on his servants so he can easily lure Fortunato into the catacombs without anyone witnessing it. Montresor says, “A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form” (Poe 186). The quote represents the impact of the setting on the climax of the story because Montresor took Fortunato way deep in the catacombs so no one will be able to hear Fortunato screams. The narrator says, “there remained but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in” (Poe 187). The setting has a huge impact on the falling action as Montresor buries Fortunato in the wall so no one can recognize them. The resolution of the story is “In pace requiescat” and the impact of the setting is the crime which took place in narrator’s house and only the narrator knows about the murder so no one disturbs Fortunato and he rests in peace. Throughout the whole story, Poe tries to create a suspense with the use of different settings and descriptions.

After a couple of drinks Montresor warns Fortunato about the danger of consuming this wine because of the high levels of nitre that it has, foreshadowing for the audience, telling us the venom Fortunato is consuming. When Fortunato starts to feel bad Montresor offers him a drink to make him feel better, this is not an act of sympathy, it's just to keep Fortunato alive until his burial ground; and also to keep the audience waiting for the action to come.

Fortunato had no idea what horrible plans Montresor was planning on doing, Fortunato dresses up like a fool for the carnival not knowing that he will literally be a fool for listening to Montresor. When Montresor tricks Fortunato to following him he notices that Fortunato is coughing and tells him we can go back I can have someone else test the wine but, Fortunato insisted that they keep going not knowing that Montresor was making a fool out of him, by tricking him into wanting to

     Finally, they reach the end on the catacombs and the Amontillado is near. Then, suddenly Montressor throws Fortunato and fettered him on the wall in a little aperture. He Builds a crypt with a trowel and masonry slowly circumscribing him. Fortunato will slowly suffocate and die. He is almost done laying the stones when Fortunato begs him to let him out and lets him know that the joke was very good but Montressor is not joking. He lays the last block and clamored can be heard through the walls. Slowly the noise died down and Montressor absconded to let Fortunato repose. Of course, then Fortunato perceived what he had done.

“Here I knocked off the neck of the bottle which I drew from a long row of its fellows that lay upon the mold,” was said in the story. Since Fortunato drank so much before he went into the catacombs and when he was in them, he was blinded by the effects of the alcohol he drank. The alcohol made his judgments poor. He did not notice how far he went and how the conditions of the catacombs were changing. He was also tricked by Montresor and he might have realized what he was doing if he did not drink as much as he did. For example, Montresor acted like he cared for Fortunato by helping him up when he stumbled. Before Montresor and Fortunato arrived to the destination Montresor planned to kill Fortunato the story mentioned, “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.” Montresor manipulated Fortunato after Fortunato drank so much before and after entering the catacombs. Montresor took advantage of this by asking if Fortunato wanted to leave the catacombs because he was starting to feel ill. When Montresor tried taking the Amontillado away from Fortunato by asking if Fortunato wanted to leave, it just made Fortunato want it more. Since Fortunato wanted to try the Amontillado before anyone else, Montresor acted like he cared about his conditions. Montresor tried to make Fortunato feel cared about before Montresor carried out his plans on

However, he knew that Fortunato had a significant drinking problem, for he liked to drink high-quality wine. (Poe, Edgar Allan) Montresor planned the initial meeting when Fortunato was under the influence of the wine and when he was alone. He did a seemingly good job of pretending to have a vested interest in conversing with him, but used it as a ploy

As the story progresses, Montresor devises a careful plan to lure Fortunato to his death trap, but he is careful enough not to place himself at risk. He approaches him at a carnival, and plays on his victim’s weakness for wine by offering to show him a brand of wine akin to the light Spanish sherry, Amontillado (8). The narrator presents an interesting description of his encounter with Fortunato at the carnival; at first expressing dislike for his friend’s behavior by claiming that he approached him with too much warmth since he was drunk, but then he adds that he was extremely delighted to see Fortunato at that particular moment. This illustrates the depth of Montresor’s desire to exert revenge on his friend, since the sole reason of his pleasure at seeing Fortunato is that he knew his plans had taken off, and he anticipated the satisfaction of the act of brutal revenge.

Fortunato does not respond. In hopes of getting Fortunato to respond in some way, Montresor throws a torch into the only open area left. He hears the tinkling of bells. He says his 'heart grew sick ' but only on the 'account of the dampness of the catacombs, ' and he finishes building the wall. Then he says the events happened fifty years