Amontillado Thesis

“The Cask of Amontillado” was written by Edgar Allen Poe where the whole story is dark and twisty from beginning to end, including the title. The title can break down into two words, cask and amontillado. A cask is a barrel-like container made of wood, metal, or plastic, used for storing liquids, most likely alcoholic beverages. Amontillado is a specific type of sherry where it originated from Montilla, Spain. This city is part of the Andalucía wine zone where fortified wines are created using the sherry production method. This method consists of medium-weight wines becoming ripe under a layer of flor, or yeast cells, and then cycled through the 'solera' system where older casks are refilled with younger wine. This keeps the wine’s flavor unchanging

The way Montresor sought out his plan to destroy Fortunato makes the reader feel that Montresor possesses a conscience. How can one become a sociopath yet possess a conscience? It all begins with an insult. Montresor begins the narrating the story with “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured insult I vowed revenge” (Poe). Montresor tells the audience that he sustained as many injuries he could, but when Fortunato ridiculed him, he finally had enough and decided to put an end to his

It has to be both. Anybody who would want to kill another person has to have some type of psychological reasoning, but the way the plan was set up, it had to be done by someone with a conscience. As Montresor was leading a drunk Fortunato down the catacombs, he was giving Fortunato plenty of chances to escape. Because of his intoxication, Fortunato would have never seen it coming and did not have a sober chance. Montresor possessed a wise, sociopath mind. At the last minute, Fortunato became sober and realized what was happening, but it was too late. Montresor laid the last brick, and it was too