Montresor murders him because of some unnamed injustice he has suffered. Montresor plans to exact his revenge in a meticulous way, so that he cannot ever be blamed for the murder. During the Carnivale season, Montresor approaches Fortunato and tells him he has a wine at home that he says can pass for a expensive wine called Amontillado, and wants Fortunato to confirm if it is Amontillado or not. Fortunato, a known wine lover, is eager to go with Montresor to try the expensive wine. Montresor explains that he has put the bottle of Amontillado in his family’s catacombs with all of the remains of his ancestors.
Fortunato had responded and wanted to try the wine. Montresor’s reason for killing Fortunato is his commitment to revenge. Montresor uses wine to lure Fortunato into the catacomb. The two are now on their way to the catacomb where the rare wine is supposed to be. Edger Allen Poe uses irony a lot as they are on their way to the catacomb.
Compare and Contrast Essay The element of revenge is found in many storylines; in most the reason for the need of revenge is normally known. The theme of revenge is prominent in several ways in the “Cask of Amontillado” and “One of These Days.” Although the two have a single driven purpose for revenge it is never truly revealed to the readers. With this being said the two may have that in common they truly differ in several noticeable ways. In “The Cask of Amontillado” the main character, Montressor, has carefully planned out his revenge he seeks on Fortunado. Montressor having planned his revenge carefully sent his servants away for the evening, telling them that he would not be home until the morning time.
Montresor, in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, vows to take revenge on his supposedly good friend, Fortunato, chaining him in the catacombs underneath his home to rest with the other bodies for all eternity. Despite what he seems to be telling the reader, this character is not a sociopath driven by anger. Montresor is compelled to methodically cleanse his life of this stain. It is less an act of revenge than it is a cleansing ritual. The setting of the story raises it from a mere horror story to one of religious rebirth.
Montresor seeks the destruction of his rival due to Fortunato's insult. The need for revenge, in these stories, is shown to hurt other people emotionally and physically. Both these stories exemplify the dark side of human nature. Revenge can overwhelm a person, and become the single most important objective in their life. Throughout the short story "A Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe, develops the feelings of revenge, held by the central character Montresor.
Montresor murders him because of some unnamed injustice he has suffered. Montresor plans to exact his revenge in a careful way, so that he cannot ever be blamed for the murder. During the Carnivale season, Montresor approaches Fortunato and tells him he has a wine at home that he says can pass for a expensive wine called Amontillado, and wants Fortunato to confirm if it is Amontillado or not. Fortunato, a known wine lover, is eager to go with Montresor to try the expensive wine. Montresor explains that he has put the bottle of Amontillado in his family’s catacombs with all of the remains of his ancestors.
Montresor knows this, and he uses this knowledge to his advantage while formulating his plan for revenge. Montresor begins his quest for revenge one evening during the carnival season. He comes across Fortunato who is drunk and dressed as a court jester. Montresor then tells Fortunato that he has acquired a “pipe of Amontillado”(361). Amontillado is a rare type of Sherry that is produced in Montilla, Spain.
Setting: At a Carnival in unknown city of Italy III. Plot Montresor was planning to take revenge on Fortunato because he threw insults on him. He devise his plan during the carnival because he knew that Fortunato would be drunk. When he taunted that Fortunato was already drunk he approached him and told him about the Sherry of Amontillado that he had acquired. He used it to lure Fortunato to go with him to the vaults because Fortunato consider himself as a connoisseur on wines.
Mr. King has won numerous awards for his work and is considered one of the greatest writers alive today. His short story “Dolan’s Cadillac” shares many similarities to Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”, in plot, characterization, point of view, and climax. The first main similarity between the two stories is the problem the protagonist must overcome. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” takes place in the 1800s and is about a man named Montresor taking revenge on a fellow nobleman named Fortunato. Montresor is angry at Fortunato for an insult and he plots to murder his “friend” during a carnival while Fortunato is drunk.
.As Montresor plan his plan it doesn’t turn out great for one of them. Montresor might of have planned one of the greatest plans ever in a short story. Days before he was going to lure Fortunato, he chose the perfect spot where he was going to kill him. In Montresor plan he planned he was going to act like if he was Fortunato friend that was no problem for him. He appeared to constantly ask about his cough on the way down.