Fortunato

generalization. In his story, Montresor catches Fortunato off guard and ends up murdering him. Fortunato wasn’t very aware at the time and he sure paid for it in the end. He makes himself such an easy target by being irresponsible, foolish, and jealous. Fortunato is portrayed as an irresponsible character at the beginning of the story. Montresor even notes how drunk Fortunato is by saying, “He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much” (1). Fortunato didn’t have anyone looking after him

wanting the throne. Montresor’s revenge on Fortunato is perfectly planned. He uses Fortunato’s weak point (wine) to assure that he will go with him. Montresor knows how people mind work. Montresor insists on asking Montresor about his health. The more he insists, the more Montresor wants to continue. Also, Montresor uses Luchesi to make Fortunato want to continue even more. Montresor’s smartness and mastermind is something I really admire of him. 17. Fortunato is a man who likes wine. He likes to get

planned the murder of Fortunato. Starting from the very beginning, Montresor told the reader that “[He] continued… to smile in [Fortunato’s] face, and [Fortunato] did not perceive that my smile was at the thought of his immolation” (Poe 59). This dark action is the first sign that not only is the murder long and thought out, Montresor is manipulating Fortunato into believing that they are friends. Once he had developed this trusting relationship, it was not difficult to lewer Fortunato into the catacombs

weakness however, and would use this to manipulate Fortunato, in his wicked plot. Montresor had a plentiful wine vault and knew he could use wine to help him get his revenge as he says in “The Cask of Amontillado, “I bought the best I could find. And wine, I thought, wine would give me my revenge! (Poe).” His family had a long history, and a palace which they had lived for hundreds of years, which underneath contained this vault. Montresor would tell Fortunato about a new full cask of wine, called Amontillado

madness of Montresor as well as the ignorance of Fortunato. One of the most prominent symbols Poe used is the coat of arms. When a family has a coat of arms it generally means they come from a background of wealth. Montressors family coat of arms depicts “a huge human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are embedded in the heel” (Poe 238). The coat of arms for Montresor symbolizes himself and Fortunato. Fortunato and his hurtful words towards Montressor are symbolized

Many years ago, there was a murder of a wealthy businessman, Fortunato. Fortunato was murdered by a member of an old aristocratic Catholic family, his name is Montresor. There are a few theories on why Montresor did such a cruel thing to this innocent man. As for myself, I agree with the theory that detective Arnold and my supervisor believe. They envision that the reason Montresor killed Fortunato was because of his hate for Fortunato. This case has remained unsolved for many years, and I agree

The Characters Mathilde and Fortunato from “The Necklace” (1884) by Guy de Maupassant and “Cask of Amontillado” (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe, had immense pride in themselves, they were greedy and self centered, when in reality due to their actions they looked like fools, because of this they had catastrophic results. Maupassant and Poe, employ tragic flaw, irony, and climax to demonstrate the disastrous results of pride. To start off, both of the stories characters’ tragic flaw seems to be their pride

made us both ********I think I felt more attached to Fortunato then Taylor because being buried alive is a fear of mine. In the beginning the narrator, a man named Montresor, says that he has been offended by Fortunato and seeks revenge. He wants to do it in a way that he will not be caught. Montresor tells Fortunato that he has a cask of Amontillado that he doesn’t think is real. He tells him he is going to take it to a man to test it but Fortunato says he wants to. They both go down to the vaults

the story correlates with the character Fortunato the not so fortunate character of this passage and it shows us the reader how things in life have can have an opposite turn right before our eyes when one lets themselves be lured into obsessions and desires and how one isn’t fully aware of what’s going on during most of these moments, in this case Fortunato. The setting of this passage is appropriate for the text and for this specific character, Fortunato, because within these series of events we

wrong doing. Through The Cask of Amontillado, we are naturally obligated to feel deep sympathy for Fortunato, as he is being deceived and being led to a tragic fate. The horror of being chained to a wall drunk, with little rational thinking and functionality is terrifying. Because he is in a position of paralysis and taken advantage of, we as an audience will naturally feel deep sympathy for Fortunato. But Poe’s intent goes beyond just exposing a serious fear of malicious men. The true horror that