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Betrayal In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

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Betrayal; to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty. (Dictionary) In our lives we may have been betrayed or have betrayed someone that ended in a way we didn’t expect or may have because we planned it. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montressor is a betrayer and his experience is extremely similar to my experience with betrayal. Edgar Allan Poe wrote this story to bring out the theme of betrayal. He tries to make us think about Montressor and his actions and to seek our opinion on whether Montressor is a betrayer or not. The story is about a time when Fortunato insulted Montressor and from the insults he wants to seek revenge for Fortunato. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge”. (Poe). Montressor claims he has respected and was a good friend to Fortunato and that Fortunato used that against …show more content…

A recent occasion would be involving my birthday. My birthday was last week I get a call from my grandpa wishing me happy birthday. I guess this year wasn’t my lucky year, got no call, message, nothing. Few days later is my cousin’s birthday and he got a call from my grandpa. Listening to this I felt betrayed, outcast, not cared for. I felt this anger rise on me but I didn’t mention it to anyone because I don’t really talk about my feelings with my family. Now you might be wondering what did I do? What was my revenge? Well I’m not that crazy to go off and kill my grandpa; at the end of this he is family. But I did stop talking to him, he called a few days ago wondering where I was, my mom was pressuring me saying it’s a bad thing I am doing not talking to my grandpa. But I always have felt this connection that he does like my cousins more than my side of the family. Having this feeling build pressure, and doubt on whether he cares for you. But what is the outcome of this, the purpose? What kind of a person am I for doing

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That Montresor is losing sight of humanity, which Poe is utilizing throughout the story. “But when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe 61). As you read it shows how focused Montresor is about revenge, that he will not stop until he gets his revenge on Fortunato. Montresor's satisfaction will only come from Fortunato's immense suffering.

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This is represented by, the way Montressor wants to punish Fortunato because of the hatred he has for him and his understanding of why Fortunato has treated him so poorly. Also the way Montressor makes it seem like revenge is the right and necessary thing to do to correct the wrong Fortunato has done to him. As well as, how Montressor ultimately manipulates Fortunato.

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Throughout the story Montresor expressed his extended hatred towards Fortunato, a fellow friend. With great care and patience he meticulously formed a plan to end Fortunato. However,

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Damp, cold, and as dark as an abyss. The catacombs, an underground tunnel system, is a place featured in Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe develops the theme of trust through the characters Montressor and Fortunato.   Montressor is a character and the narrator of the story. He tells a story of his revenge on Fortunato fifty years in the past.

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When it comes to writting performance, Poe is so graceful with his purpose from sentence to sentence. Poe starts his story in a strange way because readers do not know exactly about Fortunato ’s personaily, he insults Montresor whether seriously or not which enables him to receive severe revenge and the result of Fortunato is seemingly predicted : “ A wrong is unredressed....who has done the wrong” (1). In addition, every single detail contains many implications of irony. The name of the victim, Fortunato, means “ the fortunate one”.

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1. The entire story is based on the fact that Fortunato has wronged Montresor many times, and Montresor dealt with them until Fortunato “ventured upon insult,” which caused Montresor to “vow revenge.” Though it seems the “insult” must be so terrible that Montresor is willing to murder him for it, the reader can not be entirely sure that the killing is justified since Montresor is not of sound mind. Because Montresor is the narrator, and unreliable at that, the reader is forced to learn about the events through a perspective tainted by emotions and bias. For example, the person telling the tale may embellish or downplay events in the story in order to look like the “good guy” without completely lying.

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Pride is commonly understood to be a great virtue, but it can slowly transform into an indestructible force of arrogance to the point of a person’s downfall. Edger Allen Poe’s short story, “A Cask of Amontillado” shows how pride can be detrimental because of the arrogance it can produce. In this bone-chilling story, Poe describes how Fortunato’s pride leaves him stranded and walled deep in the catacombs of Rome. Pride is a significant cause of downfall as seen in The Cask of Amontillado, because it produces arrogance, it can mislead you to a false sense of dominance and it can mislead you to blindness of personal flaws. The first reason that pride causes a major downfall in someone’s life is because it can cause someone to do something

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Too much pride can lead to one’s downfall. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is riddled with the underlying theme of pride that the narrator, Montresor, and his victim, Fortunato, experiences throughout the narrator’s deliberate plan of revenge. The theme of pride plays a role in Fortunato’s affection with his wine and in Montresor’s emotions leading up to killing Fortunato. During the events leading up to Fortunato's death, pride plays a role in Montresor’s emotions.

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As the story progresses it becomes exceptionally evident the role external conflict plays in creating Montresor’s character. To begin, Montresor mentions “the thousand injuries of Fortunato” and the revenge he is determined to get from the most recent injury, an insult (Poe 543). By Montresor choosing to open the story with remarks about Fortunato’s wrong doings towards him, it’s clear that he holds a grudge. These conflicts between the two men throughout their friendship have had such an impression on Montresor that it’s over taken him – it’s all he can think about; thus, he immediately mentions these conflicts at the beginning of the story. In result, Montresor as a character appears quite hostile and as a narrator appears unreliable.

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Betrayal: the act of betraying someone or something or the fact of being betrayed: violation of a person's trust or confidence, of a moral standard, etc. (Merriam Webster.) Betrayal, at its core, is change, disappointment, and pain. It is about the subversion of expectations, where what is given is far less than what is expected. In literary works, it is a simple device used to drive plots forward and create complex characters.

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Montresor ponders his act of revenge and with it, his plans for the murder of an acquaintance named Fortunato. Fortunato means “the fortunate one,” his reference in the first sentence the beginning of Poe’s unrivaled skill at macabre humor and twists in the mind of someone willing to commit murder. In this case, the murderer lures the reader in as Montresor makes clear his retribution will be carried out on the basis of an insult. Going into the Montresor family sepulcher, Montresor continues to hand Fortunato different wines in preperation for the legendary Amontillado. Therefore, Fortunato ends up plainly inebriated, and his monitor drops.

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