Evaluation of “The Cask of Amontillado” Edger Allen Poe is one of America’s greatest writers. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a short horror story about a guy named Montresor seeking revenge against Fortunato. Montresor is a crafty and sneaky person. Fortunato is someone who was unknowingly walking to his death by Montresor who he feels is his friend. Fortunato believes that Montresor is his friend but he ends up in chains in a catacomb.
According to the story, The Cask Of Amontillado, Montresor didn’t feel remorse at the start but after he does the job he feels terrible because he thought that fortunato deserved to die until he realises, he was the one to killed him. Montresor created a whole plan to kill fortunato which shows that he never once felt like he was doing something terrible. In order to get revenge, montresor tricked fortunato and the servants. He was willing to do anything to kill fortunato. An quote that shows that montresor was trying to make fortunato feel safe and secure is “True-True,” I replied “and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily;but you should use all the proper caution.
.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.
The reader is never told exactly what Fortunato has done to provoke Montresor. All the reader is told is “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”(360). Montresor never expounds on what the insult was, only that it occurred and that he will take revenge. Montresor goes on to say that he “must punish with punish with impunity”, meaning that he will show no mercy on Fortunato and that the revenge will be far worse than the insult. Montresor then reveals that Fortunato has a weakness.
Next, the threats Tybalt sends Romeo also lead up to the suicides and the cause of death. Tybalt approaches Romeo and tries to start a fight by saying, “Romeo the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain” (119). The constant threats Tybalt sends Romeo endanger his own family. Romeo was told if a family member of his or himself gets in Tybalt swore to himself that he would seek revenge on Romeo for crashing the party. Tybalt’s threats eventually become a full out issue for Romeo.
Laertes achieves his vengeance, but quickly realizes what he has done and immediately passes into acceptance. His short sighted plot for revenge backfires as he himself is also injured with the poisoned blade. Because he didn’t think through his plan to all of the possible outcomes, he allows Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, and himself all be killed in one afternoon. Laertes is a man of action, doing
To put it bluntly, Macbeth is about to chicken out because he thinks that he's likely to get caught. Only at this point does he start thinking of other reasons that he shouldn't kill his king. As the King's subject, as his kinsman, as his host, Macbeth is supposed to protect his king, not kill him. Besides, Duncan has done nothing wrong. He is a good king, and he is "meek," not arrogant, so when he is killed, pity itself "Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, / That tears shall drown the wind" (1.7.24-25).
Although he simply plans to put on an anti-disposition and eventually kill whom he believes to be the murderer of his father, Claudius. Being who Hamlet is, he tends to take his time to get things done, which is seen as his attempt to murder Claudius drags on throughout the play. As the play begins to get more climatic and King Claudius is still alive, Hamlet soon begins to lose his patience and cool. Getting eager to avenge his father, he begins to lose his original anti-disposition act and actually take on the
It was such a shame that Lennie’s life had to be taken away for George to be happy. To show, one last time, that George killed Lennie for reasons of self-preservation, I will end with a quote. Quida, an English novelist, once said “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what
This means that at some point in his life, Beatty was also questioning society just like Montage is now. Beatty once also had the choice of following his desire and turning against society, but unlike Montage, he chose to follow his duty and ignore his desire. Beatty obviously regrets not having chosen the path against society. For this reason Beatty sympathizes with Montage and "forces" Montage to kill him. Beatty does this because he knows that once Montage kills him he is going to also have to kill the rest of the firemen and then flee, making this Montage’s point of no return.