Who Is To Blame For The Cask Of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer in writing detective stories and horror stories. One of his horror stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” was talking about how a man took his revenge to his friend. However, to look deeply in this story, I found that this story was not just simply a horror tale about how a man gets his revenge in the safest way. Instead, it also demonstrates much irony in several areas: the title, the event, the season, the costume, the environment, the characters’ personalities, a man’s dignity and cockiness and at the end, the public order. he are

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.

In addition, the place that Montresor chose to kill Fortanato is also sarcastic. It seems abnormal that the “vaults” were situated inside the “catacombs”. When they were looking for the wine, Fortanato did not suspect anything even when he saw the “bones” and “catacombs”. He still kept on asking where the “Amontillado” was. Ridiculously, while they were drinking the wine in order to keep themselves warm, Fortanato said that he drank to “the buried that repose around them”. Whereas, Montresor said that he drank “to your long life”. Surely, what Montresor said is ironic; He certainly knew that Fortanato would not have a “long life” since he would kill him soon. Perhaps, what Montresor means here is that Fortanato may have a “long life” in these dreadful “vaults”. Namely, the Montresors’ tomb will be Fortanato's tomb. Moreover, Montresor asked Fortanato to go back three times while they were in the vaults. Also, he concerned with Fortanato’s health since

The Vengeful Story In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” it is not only a suspenseful and thrilling short story, but it has a great amount of irony throughout the story as well. One of the main characters in the story is Montresor. Montresor uses verbal irony by saying one thing, but meaning something else. Ninth graders should always read “The Cask of Amontillado” because it is the most effective way to learn about irony, tone, and allusions.

The short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Edgar Alan Poe is about two friends, Montresor and Fortunato. The story is morally all about revenge and murder. Poe uses a deception to make the story a mystery towards the end. Poe also in the story explains why Montresor has so much hatred toward Fortunato which then created a lot more suspense while reading. One question that can be asked is, “Why does Montresor carry so much hatred toward Fortunato?” The story begins with a day of celebration which then is very ironic because it starts off as a day of celebration and then to a celebration of murder. I believe the key point of the story is suspense which indicated a sense of something is about to happen. Edgar Alan Poe did an amazing

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. It is a story about a man name Montresor who was insulted by Fortunado. Montresor then plots to exact revenge against Fortunado. Montresor is the narrator, and his tone is interesting as it changes in the story. The definition tone, “of a written work, is described as the attitude the narrator seems to take toward the subject and or the audience, and the tone is a primary way of determining the motivation and overall reliability of a narrator”.

Montresor is the kind of person that you don’t want get on their bad side, He's the kind of person that enjoys long walks on the beach and the occasional MURDER. In the story "Cask of Amontillado" written by Edgar Allen Poe, Montresor is main Character/Narrator, and his main goal in the story is to seek revenge on his once good friend Fortunato who has embarrassed Montresor one to many times. So Montresor's plan is to trick Fortunato down into his family's catacomb by telling Fortunato that there is a cask of amontillado in the catacombs. So Fortunato follows Montresor down into the catacombs where he chains Fortunato in a niche in the wall and seals him in with brick and mortar. As you can see Montresor successfully kills Fortunato because he's an unsympathetic character with a dark demeanor and an unhealthy mental state.

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1846. It is a story of a man named Fortunato who offended another man named Montresor. Montressor got Fortunato drunk off of wine and took him to the cellar where he locked Fortunato in a tomb behind a wall of brick. The overall tone of the short story is dark. From the beginning, where Montresor is speaking of getting revenge on Fortunato, we see a building of the dark and ravenous tone that lasts throughout the story.

The story The Cask of Amontillado was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1846. Poe is an author of many short stories and poems. He is known for “The Raven,” one of the best written creations throughout his career which resulted him to grow a substantial amount of supporters, even today. In this story, I am well pleased with the suspense that was built up throughout the story before the death of Fortunato, thanks to Montresor. Overall, I acknowledge this story based on how well the characters were set up and the way Montresor easily manipulates Fortunato to his death, the irony of the characters, how the setting of the story builds up suspense to the reader and the how the narration of this story truly makes it feel like it’s telling it to the reader in present day, as if Montresor may be

Montressor stealthily lures a drunken Fortunado away from a party by questioning his wine knowledge. Montressor asks him to taste his Amontillado to confirm its authenticity. Montressor continues to encourage Fortunado’s drunkenness giving him an ample supply of alcohol to indulge in. When they finally reach the vault, Montressor chains up his foe and goes on to seal up the entrance to the cavern. Frequently mentioned throughout the story, “Niter” covers the vaults walls.

Montresor is wronged once again by a man that has wronged him multiple times before and meets the man at a carnival without the man knowing. The man’s name is Fortunato and he was a little intoxicated when Montresor first approached Fortunato. Montresor planned to use his knowledge of wine to lure him in to his death. He gives no hints that he is going to kill him because he does not want to frighten him. Montresor thought ahead and gave his servant the night off. Montresor then tells Fortunato that he has wine in the basement and invites Fortunato to join and they went to the catacombs. Then Montresor stoned him up and left him for death.

     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.

For me this definitely solidified the fact that I unknowing came to the defense of Montresor without even noticing that I had in fact made the conscious decision to do so. In contrast, though as the story continued I learned that Montresor’s claims of insult were most likely deceitful and unjust and his intentions were in fact evil. For example, the story offers no proof of how he has been miss-treated by Fortunato and reveals that the burden of proof isn’t important to Montresor at all because his ill intent and actions aimed at harming his friend reflect that of someone wanting to fill the roles of jury, judge, and executioner. As an illustration, the story’s suspense builds when he and Fortunato at the carnival and walk towards the vault however after reaching their destination normal conversation quickly turns into Fortunato realizing his life is in danger as he begins to plead with his so called friend. Finally the story’s climax ends when Fortunato accepts his fate by the hands of his once so called friend for what seems as no legitimate

Montresor replies, “My family crest is a giant foot crushing a serpent”. In this situation, Montresor sees Fortunato as a serpent that needs to be crushed and killed. In more ways than one, however, Montresor is like a snake. He is deceitful and misleading. Montresor plays both roles while he is enacting his revenge. He tricks Fortunato into thinking that he has a very rare wine and when he has Fortunato drunk enough, he traps him and leaves him to die. Montresor also feels pressured into killing Fortunato, because his family motto is “Nobody attacks me with impunity” (Poe). After Montresor finishes filling the wall, he says that his heart grew sick, but he brushes it off and blames it on the coldness of the crypt. Montresor obviously felt guilty, but did not want to admit it (Poe 72). This tells the reader that Montresor really is human and has some kind of heart, but he carried out the deed anyway. The story is being told fifty years later, so it leads the reader to infer that as Montresor is dying, he is finally confessing to his

“In pace requiescat, Fortunato” Screamed Montresor, as he woke from another nightmare. Instead of waking up to a small, but comfortable two-story house in Italy; Montresor finds himself waking up to a cramped, and poorly lit room. He was still in the same house, but Montresor felt as though the wall were closing in, and after Montresor dealt with Fortunato, he began to isolate himself from society. He closed all windows, doors, and any opening to the house, or to him. He would somehow manage to move around the obstacle course of trash and clothes that would hide his wood panel floor; to lay in his pearl white bed, and remember Fortunato. Dissatisfied with his sleep life, Montresor decided to meet a psychic, in the busy downtown area. After making it through the crowd of unfamiliar faces, he stands in front of Madam Claudia’s psychic parlor.