The Cask of Amontillado

First Edgar Allan Poe's works are all written in the same manner, first person, which means the speaker is the narrator of the story. Based on most researches it was written in in first person because it is the style of the author and also first person in literary cant be trusted, which in a way suggested that the character/speaker in the story must be insane that adds up into the mystery of the story.

No. Right after he bricked Fortunato into the niche in the catacombs he said his heart was ill, but it was from the dampness of the catacombs, not from having just entombed Fortunato. In addition at the opening of the story he is recounting this story as it happened 50 years before. He still shows no signs of remorse.

It was, Montresor had premeditated to murder Fortunato in his vault.

1. The dark, damp catacombs where Montresor lures Fortunato.
2. The hidden, narrow passageways where Montresor leads Fortunato deeper underground.
3. The image of Fortunato being bricked up behind a wall by Montresor in the final moments of the story.

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Well, he is very deceitful because he acts like a friend to Fortunato but in the end he kills him. Not very friendly.He makes him think one thing but uses that against him. He also takes advantage of Fortuanto's state of drunkness so that Fortunato is ignorant of the whole situation. As well, Montresor uses Fortunato's strength and pride in knowing about wines as a weekness because he tells him about Luchresi being able to answer his question. It seems this gets Fortunato jealous and then starts the journey to the catacombs where he will be killed. That's all i can think of...I gotta go do my own homework on this story! Hope I helped...

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The unfortunate Fortunato dies.

Montresor does not show loyalty in 'The Cask of Amontillado'. Instead, he deceives and betrays Fortunato by leading him to his death. Montresor's actions are driven by revenge and a desire for retribution, not loyalty.

The mood of "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is dark, eerie, and ominous. It evokes a sense of suspense, betrayal, and revenge as the story unfolds in the catacombs where Montresor seeks his vengeance against Fortunato.

It means that he wants to kill Fortunato without going to prison or having anyone find out what he did even years later. This is why he chose Carnival time because everyone knew Fortunato was a drunk and would assume that he fell into a body of water and drowned. His body would have then been swept out to sea and never be found. It was the perfect alibi since his servants would swear that they were in the house all night to keep from being fired. No one would suspect him because he was careful to act like Fortunato's friend while secretly hating him. He also wanted Fortunato to know for certain that he was going to die and not be able to do anything about it.

The initial conflict in "The Cask of Amontillado" occurs when Montresor harbors a deep-seated grudge against Fortunato. Montresor seeks revenge against Fortunato for some past insult, setting the stage for the dark and sinister events that follow.

The fact that a carnival is taking place during the murder in "The Cask of Amontillado" is ironic because carnivals are typically associated with celebration, joy, and revelry, while the murder that occurs beneath it is dark, sinister, and vengeful. The stark contrast between the festive atmosphere above and the heinous act happening below adds to the overall unsettling and ironic tone of the story.

Montresor's motive, as a character in the story, for telling of this event is not made clear. Some critics postulated that he is confessing his crime to a friend or even a priest, but there is nothing in the story itself to prove this.

As a literary device, however, the use of the 'flashback' manner of telling a story can be effective to bring out the character's feeling and perception of the events in the story. For one thing, the only way the reader is assured that Montresor has exacted the perfect revenge is by a flashback. Montresor states in the opening that a wrong is not avenged unless the avenger is not caught and the person who has committed the offense knows he is paying for it now. If the story took place in present time, the reader would never know whether Fortunato somehow escaped his fate or whether Montresor got away with it. But, with Montresor telling the story fifty years later and confirming that the wall behind which Fortunato now rests has been undisturbed for half a century, it is clear that Fortunato is dead and that Montresor got away with it.

The Montresor family motto "No one insults me with impunity" likely influenced Montresor's actions by fueling his desire for revenge and his need to uphold his family's honor. This motto instilled a sense of pride and a belief in taking matters into his own hands when he felt his dignity had been disrespected. Ultimately, it drove Montresor to carry out his plan to seek revenge on Fortunato.

The narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado" is effective as a villain due to his manipulation and deceitful nature. He lures Fortunato into the catacombs with false promises of rare wine, taking advantage of his weakness for alcohol. The narrator's calculated planning and lack of remorse for his actions further solidify his villainous persona.

We readers never find out if he actually had a cask of Amontillado. Montresor (and Edgar Allan Poe of course) is the only one who knows for certain whether he did have it. In the story, not even Fortunato finds out, which is unfortunate considering he paid with his life for the privilege of tasting this wine and then never even found out if it was there to begin with. Knowing Poe with his penchant for having a little fun, if there had really been a cask of Amontillado, Montresor might have given it to Fortunato to savor as he spent his last few days alive chained behind the brick wall.

In the story Fortunato is met at a carnival where he is wearing the costume of a fool, or court jester. This indicates that Fortunato is foolish enough to be so trusting of Montresor that he will allow himself to be tricked into going to Montresor's cellar to his death.

Montresor is a cunning and vengeful character in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," seeking revenge for a perceived insult, while General Zaroff in Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is a sophisticated and ruthless hunter who lures shipwrecked sailors to his island to hunt them for sport. Montresor's motivation is personal revenge, while General Zaroff's is seeking a challenging target for his hunting skills.

The narrator meets Fortunato at a carnival in the story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. They encounter each other in the street during the festivities and decide to go to the narrator's underground catacombs to taste a rare wine called Amontillado.

The irony lies in the fact that Montresor intentionally lures Fortunato to his doom by appealing to his pride in his wine connoisseurship. Fortunato's arrogance and belief in his own superiority blind him to the danger, leading him willingly into the catacombs where he meets his end. This ironic twist highlights the theme of betrayal and deception in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Cask of Amontillado."

Fortunato, himself, is ironic because he believes himself to be knowledgeable about wine, yet he is dressed in a Fool's costume for the festival and ultimately Montresor uses Fortunato's pride and vanity of such knowledge to fool him into going into the cellar to his death.

Fortunato's name itself is a bit of irony, since it means 'fortunate one' in Italian, however once he is chained to the cellar wall, he meets a most unfortunate end.

Fortunato is a member of the sect, Freemasons. In the catacombs Montresor says that he, too is a "mason." Fortunato asks Montresor for the secret sign known by the Freemasons and Montresor produces a trowel. These are ironic because Montressor will do the work of a "mason" using the trowel to entomb Fortunato behind a brick wall.

At one point Fortunato coughs due to the dankness of the catacomb's. Montresor suggests that they leave to save Fortunato's health. Fortunato refuses saying "I will not die of a cough." And Montresor agrees, saying "True-true." Montresor knows it is true because he, rather than the cough, will soon kill Fortunato.

Another touch of irony is that in the catacombs, Fortunato toasts the many people buried in the catacombs, little knowing that he is shortly to become one of them.

In return to Fortunato's toast to those buried in the catacombs, Montresor drinks to Fortunato's long life, which has but a few hours left.