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The Cask Of Amontillado Montresor Character Traits

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The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe. This story focuses on Montresor and his revenge of Fortunato. Montresor has many character traits that make him an interesting yet mysterious character in the story. His plot for revenge shows him as a person who can’t let something go, and must show what he wants in return. His knowledge of wine may not be the biggest trait, but an important one indeed, because of the pride that he takes in it. His intelligence is a very big trait, he planned out the revenge perfectly because he did not want to mess it up. It’s understood that these two may sound similar, but it’s the way that they are viewed. Montresor achieved his goals because of his plot of revenge, his knowledge of wine, and his intelligence. …show more content…

“The thousands injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” Poe”(#1) Achieving revenge shows a person that can’t just let it go, and the fact that he actually went through this shows something even more. It’s the plan of murder that takes it further. It was not stated what Fortunato said to hurt Montresor, whatever it was took him to that level of murder. This shows he’s a person to change elements very quickly. So as a plot of revenge just shows how deep and emotional person Montresor really is. Knowledge of wine, kind of a slow trait to go off of, but in depth it is. First off he used it as bait as to get Fortunato into his trap, a clever use of a not as big trait. Also the fact of the knowledge he possess of wine, is very odd, because it’s not a common thing to know all about. “I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could.” Poe”(#1) Montresor takes pride in his knowledge of wine, cocky of it in fact, it’s strange because, like what was stated earlier, odd. So with his knowledge of wine being one of the smaller traits yet the most

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