Fortunato was drunk and Montresor led him to his catacombs claiming that he thinks he has a cask of Amontillado, but needs an expert to taste it. To get Fortunato to go, he says “I’m on my way to Luchesi. If anyone has a critical turn, it is he.” Fortunato convinced Montresor not to get Luchesi by saying “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.” Montresor also treats Fortunato like his friend by worrying about his cough in the catacombs, and he keeps him drunk so that he doesn’t think straight. Montresor is very smart and tricky. Lastly, Montressor is evil.
Macbeth refers to the dagger as a fatal vision (line 36) because it foreshadows his deadly intent to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is obviously under great mental torment, which is the cause of his hallucinations for the imaginary dagger. He imagines the dagger covered with gouts of blood (line 46), leading him to Duncan’s room. This image shows Macbeth’s fatal ambition as he follows his desire to kill King Duncan with a dagger which will eventually be covered with Kind Duncan’s own blood. A dagger of the mind (line 38) suggests that the dagger is simply a figment of Macbeth’s imaginiation.
Poe uses a unique setting of bumping into Fortunato at a carnival. Carnivals equate happiness and festive times, and those in attendance will be far too distracted with partying than thinking a haneous crime will be commited. Fortunato gave his entire staff the night off, so that nobody would get in the way of his vengeful evening. Fortunato was an afficianado of a very special sherry called Amontillado. In order to enact revenge on Fortunato, Montresor lures Fortunato to his catacombs to experience a newly acquired cask of Amontillado.
The Destructive Nature of Pride Pride is a self-destructive attitude that inevitably causes ones downfall. Pride is apparent in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”. The story portrayed a man, Montresor (protagonist), whom is driven by revenge because his pride was hurt. His pride caused him to convince a “friend”, Fortunato, to go to his family catacomb in order to get his “expert” opinion on some wine. Fortunato is a very proud man so he was completely oblivious to the fact that he was actually never going to leave the Montresor catacomb.
An example of irony is in the final paragraph of the passage concerns what will happen in the future, and the reference to ‘brides and youthful lovers’ points forward to the monster’s murder of Elizabeth, which will take place quite soon afterwards. This in turn leads to the final irony of the passage. Victor speaks despairingly of the dead as ‘prey for worms and the decay of the tomb’, but it is his use of dead bodies and of the way in which decomposing matter may be reanimated that has led him into his present situation. And when he goes on to cry ‘of what materials was I made?’, he asks the same question that the monster might ask about his own origins, suggesting to the reader an increasing identification of Victor with his
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.
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. By doing so he had ensured that no one would be there to stop him. Another way it is apparent Montressor has planned the untimely disappearance of Fortunado is how well he was able to lure Fortunado into following him. Montressor had a story that was perfectly attuned to the character of Fortunado, the task of testing a wine. Fortunado having already been drinking readily agreed to follow who he assumed was a friend but little did he know that he was following a man with a plan.
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.
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.
Through the actions of these two men, Poe illustrates that a man’s pride leads to his own demise. Fortunato’s pride leads him into the trap that Montresor had laid out for him. Montresor sees Fortunato’s pride as a weakness and uses this against him. Montresor makes up a cask of Amontillado, knowing that Fortunato will go to all lengths to taste it. To make sure that Fortunato stays, Montresor plays with his pride even more by saying that he plans to have Luchesi taste the wine because “if anyone has a critical turn, it is he” (211).