Montresor told the attendants of the house that he was going to the carnival, that he would not return until morning and gave them strict instructions that they were not to leave the house unattended. Ironically, he fully intended to return to the house before morning and wanted the attendants to leave the house unattended so that he could murder Fortunato without being discovered.
Montresor knew the house would be empty because he had deliberately lured Fortunato there by using reverse psychology, appealing to Fortunato's pride and love for wine. He knew Fortunato's weakness for rare wines, specifically the Amontillado, would lead him to follow Montresor without question, even into the depths of the catacombs.
That night there was a festival going on in the town. Montressor told his servants that he would be attending and would be gone for the night. Then he gave explicit orders that they were not to leave the house. He knew that such an order and information guaranteed that the servants would sneak out to go to the festival.
The only arthropod I know with a house is a hermit crab - they utilized empty snail shells.
No, which leaves the reader wondering whether the insults are simply imagined by Montresor.
The reader knows Montresor does not like Fortunato because Montresor seeks revenge on him, deceives him, and ultimately leads him to his death in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Cask of Amontillado." Montresor's actions and thoughts throughout the story illustrate his deep-seated hatred for Fortunato.
In order to calculate an answer to the question . . . -- We need to know whether or not the bottles are empty. then -- If the bottles are empty, then we need to know the mass of each empty bottle. -- If the bottles have anything in them, then we need to know what it is.
Montresor, the protagonist; Fortunato, the antagonist. In addition there are servants who are referred to but never seen and the character Luchesi who also is never seen. There is also the person to whom the narrator, Montresor is speaking. At one point, Montresor says, "you who know me so well" as if he is speaking to a person in the story.
Caught at it or failed to have Fortunato know he is being punished. Early in the story Montresor states: " I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
The story does not say why Fortunato insulted Montresor. In fact, there is doubt that there ever were any insults at all. They might have simply been a product of Montresor's imagination
No, I would not believe them. I live in my house and I would know if there was a poltergeist sharing it with me. If 'they' say there is a poltergeist in my house, I would believe that 'they' have an over active imagination (some people do you know).
No. To begin with it is likely that the thousand injuries and insults that Montresor says he has suffered from Fortunato were figments of his imagination. No details of them are given and Fortunato acts very friendly toward Montresor and has no fear of him even while deep down in the cellar. Fortunato does not act like a person who would have committed so many wrongs to Montresor. Even if Fortunato had insulted Montresor, insults are not reason to murder another person.
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