Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, he is an American writer born in 1809 he died in 1849. “The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead”
(https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-biography) The story is told by a quite unreliable narrator, who is also one of the two main characters in the story. The main characters in the story are
Fortunato and Montresor, Montresor is the narrator of the story. The story is one that portrays vengeance, deceit, guilt and a great deal of irony, these qualities all come together to make it a
Gothic story. The climax of the story comes when Montresor convinces Fortunato to use his wine tasting skills to verify that the wine which he has paid a fortune for is what the sellers
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Montresor does not have the wine that he claims to have but he needed to lie that he did, to lure Fortunato to the catacombs that are deep beneath his home, so that he can avenge the thousands of injury and insult that he claimed he had borne from Fortunato.
According to (https://www.sherry.wine/wines/vino-generoso/amontillado),
Amontillado is a unique wine due to its dual aging process: first under the veil of flor, typical of
Fino and Manzanilla, followed by a period in which the flor disappears, and the wine is exposed to oxidation. Made from palomino grapes, this fusion of aging processes makes the Amontillado wines extraordinarily complex and intriguing.
A psychological limitation that Montresor felt is guilt, it can be observed in