The Cask Of Amontillado And A Poison Tree By William Blake Analysis

As a final point, Montresor's persuasive is another trait that helps him achieve his final goal of murder. I believe he used his persuasive skills to his advantage by talking Fortunato to come see if this so called “Amontillado” is real. A little bit after the beginning of the text Montresor tells Fortunato how the “bought” a cask of Amontillado. “It is lucky we meet. How well you are looking today. I have just bought a cask of what passes for amontillado, but I have my doubts that it i the real thing” (Poe 68). This citation reveals how the persuades Fortunato to come taste the amontillado and how could Fortunato pass up a chance to taste such a rare wine. I can surmise that the also uses Fortunato’s will to be the best wine taster to his

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.” This quote means that people act in such a devious way as the person who hurt them which does not make them any better. In the short story, The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor wants to seek revenge from Fortunato’s iniquity. Montresor feels that he has been insulted by his acquaintance. In Montresor’s mind, retaliating the same way Fortunato did toward him is the right thing to do. He decided to get Fortunato boozed up on wine since he knew that was his fondness. By this time Fortunato is very gullible and will do anything Montresor insist on him doing. Montresor planned out everything in detail what he cinched to do to Fortunato whether it was right or wrong. He just wanted to seek revenge, but conceal every detail so that it is not obvious. Montresor is a sociopathic character who did everything in his mite and power to show that revenge is a successful ending.

When attempting to commit a murder, many things are impactful towards the execution. If the wrong place or time is chosen to commit the murder, then they risk being caught. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor chooses the perfect setting to conduct his crime. “When he (Fortunato) ventured upon insult I (Montresor) vowed revenge,” and, after all, the insults tossed his way he has plotted out his path to revenge. With all the time that he had to plan the crime out, he chooses the flawless setting to guarantee him getting away with his dirty deed.

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor tells the story of how he got revenge on Fortunato. There are differing opinions on why Montresor is telling the story: is it a confession or is it so he can relive the perfect crime he committed? After close examination of the story, it becomes evident that Montresor is bragging about committing the perfect crime. The story is not a confession because Montresor boasts about his cleverness at luring Fortunato down to the catacombs and taunts Fortunato multiple times without remorse.

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

The opening two paragraphs of The Cask of Amontillado early on allow the reader to comprehend two of Montresor's character traits; he is very deceptive and vengeful. Consequently, Montresor is able to hide his true intentions of vengeance through a persona of someone who is calm and benevolent. Montresor makes it clear that his revenge against Fortunato is based on him being offended or insulted by something that was done by Fortunato. Nevertheless, Montresor’s motivation is true because the text continues to say that Montresor is not the type of person to get offended easily; but he is smart and patient when it comes to seeking vengeance. Moreover, one is able to understand this from the very first sentence when he says, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge,” which leads us to conclude that Fortunato must have done something extremely grave to deserve death as revenge (Poe, 1). Furthermore, Montresor justifies his revenge by reasoning that he needs to defend his pride/status after being “insulted” by Fortunato. When Montresor continues to say, “a wrong is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong,” it is important to understand that Montresor wanted to feel as satisfied as the person who had insulted him, who in this case happened to be Fortunato (Poe, 1).

Since we do not have suffice information on how Fortunato insulted him, Montresor may be exaggerating on a few parts and wants to be the hero of his own story. This may have led to the reason why Montresor tells his story years later; Guilt built up because the way he was supposed to kill Fortunato did not end up the way he wanted. He is not satisfied because Fortunato did not suffer when he was supposed to be plastered up without food or water in the catacombs for days before his death, yet he died quicker than Montresor expected (par. 89). When a person seeks revenge, they want to savor every part of it and see the person suffer, but not die…quick. Apart from Fortunato not suffering, Montresor was backing up from his own plan to get his revenge. Montresor was slowed down every time he would ask Fortunato if he wanted to go back. Occasionally, Montresor would command Fortunato, “Come, we will go back; your health is precious (par. 35).” According to his own words, Montresor hesitated whether he wanted to go through with his revenge, and that was against one of the three features that he considered essential for it to be a

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

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 main question in “The Cask of Amontillado” is the reasoning for Montresor to want to murder Fortunato. Throughout the story Montresor never presents any evidence that there was wrong doing towards him by Fortunato. Lack of evidence automatically puts Montresor narration to being unreliable. Throughout the story there was never fear shown from Fortunato towards Montresor. Fortunato still believed that he was good friends with Montresor.

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.

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

At the beginning of the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor is determined to get revenge on his friend Fortunato. Since Montresor only has revenge in mind, he is a static character. Montresor states, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe 3). From the first few moments in the story, Montresor’s true intentions are revealed. Throughout the story, the reader starts to see Montresor’s elaborate plan of revenge and the great lengths he goes through to ensure success. His passion, his follow through, and his determination are all key factors that make him the protagonist in the story as well. ““I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned” (Poe 5). Montresor made sure no one would be home that night to deviate Fortunato’s focus, and to keep him from carrying out his plan of revenge. Montresor also brought a bottle of wine with him to ensure that Fortunato stayed intoxicated. “”A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.” (Poe 6). By continually offering Fortunato the wine, it made his reactions slower, and his thoughts not clear. Therefore, Montresor could carry out his revenge without flaw.

In the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato because he made fun of his family name. For years Montresor claims that Fortunato had, “hurt him”, so Montresor gets Fortunato drunk and tricks him into going to his house. When Fortunato arrives, they both go into Montresor’s basement and Montresor locks Fortunato up in addition to leaving him there to die. Montresor commits a crime by killing Fortunato in his own basement. Some people may argue that Montresor was a madman who only wanted to kill Fortunato because he made fun of Montresor’s family name; nevertheless, it is easy to see why one would believe that Montresor wasn’t a madman and that he had more motives rather than just that one reason to have killed Fortunato. What motivated Montresor to seek revenge on Fortunato was that he had made fun of Montresor’s Family name, had a drinking problem which causes him to lash out and say mean things to Montresor, and because Fortunato thought he knew more about fine wines than Montresor did. Theses motivations were also Fortunato’s weaknesses.

First and foremost, Montressor is a vengeful man. Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato who has done him “a thousand wrongs.”(Poe 67). Fortunato has done Montresor wrong somehow and Montresor will not stand for Fortunato’s “insults” any longer (Poe 67). In the first paragraph of “The Cask of the Amontillado” Montressor keeps exercising the fact that he is planning revenge on Fortunato, he holds all of these dark feelings deep down inside however. To demonstrate, “Nor would I be completely avenged unless he knew that his punishment came from me”(Poe 67). This cite shows the deep hatred Montresor developed for Fortunato and how HE must finish this deed to find closure like a real estate agent. I can infer that what Fortunato did must have been deceitful to make Montresor skip over the process of talking things