ipl-logo

Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Cask Of Amontillado

864 Words4 Pages

“For the love of God, Montresor!"(Poe 5). The title of this story is The Cask of Amontillado and it was written by Edgar Allan Poe; this short story is in the horror fiction genre. A little bit about this book is that a man named Montresor is insulted by his acquaintance, named Fortunato, and he plans to get revenge on Fortunato by killing him. Throughout the whole story, Montresor persuades Fortunato to go into his cave system where he will be able to trick him. Montresor carefully plans out what, when, and how he will strike at Fortunato and the results are deadly... When all of these factors come into place it is a key to creating suspense and irony in the literature world. The theme of this powerful story is revenge and it is shown through …show more content…

The title quickly draws attention that the story involves the death of a person. Another very important use of foreshadowing is in the first sentence in “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe starts the story off with Montresor stating, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge”.(Poe 1) This statement was signifying the last time Montresor was going to take Fortunato’s insults. In the statement, Montresor vows revenge on Fortunato for all of the hurt he has caused him. This example foreshadows the death of Fortunato as Montresor states that he is fed up with the insults. Foreshadowing Fortunato’s death gives us an early view of Fortunato’s misfortune. Just like earlier, it was said that “You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi—" "Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." (Poe 2) This gave the reader the ability to foreshadow Fortunato’s death. If Fortunato had just listened to Montresor then all of …show more content…

“The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre.”(Poe 2) This text is showing the conditions in the vault and how poor they were. This should have been the first indication that it was not safe for Fortunato down there. “He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.”(Poe 1) Here Poe is describing Fortunato's looks to let the readers better understand what the setting is. Without this use of imagery, readers would have a much more difficult time knowing the details of what was going

Show More
Related
1239 Words | 5 Pages

Montresor tortures Fortunato, both physiologically and physically. Montresor clearly gives Fortunato “multiple chances to escape his fate” (Delany 34), as he gives Fortunato obvious clues to his true intensions. These include leading Fortunato into a place for the dead, telling Fortunato not to go due to his severe cough that made it “impossible to reply” (Poe 5) at times, reminding Fortunato of his family arms, mentioning Luchesi, and showing Fortunato a trowel. Montresor seems to receive morbid joy out of the fact that Fortunato is so intoxicated that, just like the foot on Montresor’s coat of arms, he is unintentionally “stepping into his own destruction” (Cervo

Read More
274 Words | 2 Pages

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”.

Read More
519 Words | 3 Pages

Authors put a lot of effort into their work, but do things like foreshadowing hint at what is coming next in the story? Foreshadowing is a widely known literary device used in all sorts of literature, adding little things that may hint a future outcome. The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allen Poe, and Scarlet Ibis, by James Hurst, are two of the many short stories that have a lot of foreshadowing, but are presented in different ways. In both of these stories, most of the foreshadowing shows off death, so the authors used a more grim style. The reason why these two short stories were chosen, though, was because of how the writers applied the technique into the plot.

Read More
596 Words | 3 Pages

The short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is about revenge on Fortunato. After Fortunato says some insulting words he gets tricked into walking into a trap. His passion for wine made it easy for him to get fooled into walking down into a cellar. Once he gets to the end of the cellar he gets trapped by a wall that is built around him as a form of revenge. Fortunato is motivated to go into the cellar because he takes pride in knowing the best wine and he wants to prove that he would have better judgement than Luchesi.

Read More
414 Words | 2 Pages

“[Fortunato] had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (Poe 227). Poe alludes to the fact that Fortunato is a fool to trust such vengeful manipulation from Montresor. In addition, Montresor fools Fortunato to believe that he was being truthful when he said: “we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed.

Read More
780 Words | 4 Pages

Poe uses Fortunato’s lack of knowledge in the situation at hand to create dramatic irony. Fortunato believes that he is going into the catacombs to drink a fine wine called ‘Amontillado’. He does not know about Montresor’s plan to trap him in the catacombs. The reader knows about Montresor’s true

Read More
679 Words | 3 Pages

Montresor: A Misleading Narrator The narrator, Montresor, in Edgar Allan Poe's unsettling short story "The Cask of Amontillado," designs a web of deception and manipulation to mislead and misdirect the reader. As the story progresses, the reader is increasingly lured into Montresor's troubled mind, questioning the narrator's honesty and becoming immersed in the disturbing atmosphere of approaching tragedy. Montresor's deceptive skills not only confuse the reader but also serve to justify his vengeful deeds, providing a lingering impression of psychological manipulation and the deadly depths to which human dishonesty may go. Montresor misleads and misdirects the reader with irony, verbal manipulation, and a false sense of friendliness, ultimately disguising his genuine goals and justifying his spiteful deeds.

Read More
1263 Words | 6 Pages

“The only question left unanswered was; ‘How did Fortunato’s body wind up in a dig site in the countryside? As one of the victims of the feud, there are only two people who know the answer to this question; considering, the story was passed down through the generations. The answer is quite simple; ‘Of course, Fortunato did not escape the catacombs, yet he was gracefully buried because a little girl cared for the awful corpse.” Thanks to that little girl and her brother, Fortunato’s life lasted longer than Montresor ever dreamed; eventually, she vowed, they would get revenge.

Read More
1627 Words | 7 Pages

The compassion readers feel is for Fortunato for the reason that he should not have got that brutal way to die. Instead, Montresor should have just confronted him and worked things out. Montresor explains, “But the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk” (1). Before Montresor said this, he explained how he will not tolerate with a bully. He means that he has to risk for revenge because he knows what he is doing isn’t right.

Read More
997 Words | 4 Pages

“The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap jingled as he strode” (Poe, 238). Every time Fortunato got exited in the story, Poe mentions that his bells jingled. Towards the end we see that the bells begin to mean death for Fortunato. His bells seem to be mentioned less when Fortunato approaches the amontillado he desires to taste. “’You jest,’ he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces.

Read More
944 Words | 4 Pages

It does this because Montresor is verbalizing his hatred towards Fortunato with great anger and intensity, so it contributes to the unsettling mood of the story by causing the readers to wonder how Montresor is going to murder Fortunato and how brutal he will be to him because of how much he hates him and contributes to the vengeful mood as he is talking about revenge which is what the story is entirely about. Then, in this next excerpt, Montresor is also describing his hatred towards Fortunato and is continuing to give the readers context about their relationship. Another quote from the story that displays this is, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” (Poe, par. 1)

Read More
767 Words | 4 Pages

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about a betrayal and revenge, which depicts how Montresor uses weakness as a tool to successfully lure Fortunato into his trap. Fortunato himself plays a vital role in being murdered by Montresor. There are lots of traces in the story which point out Fortunato’s weaknesses and his foolishness. When Montresor suggests Fortunato to return home, Fortunato exclaims, “The cough is mere nothing; it will not kill me” (Poe) which suggest that, although receiving enough opportunities, Fortunato neglects the fortune he was being offered. Fortunato’s weaknesses resulting in his own death include his love for wine, his immense pride and his trusting nature.

Read More
154 Words | 1 Pages

He expresses to Montresor that he would love to see for himself this rare brandy. So Montresor takes Fortunato to the catacombs of the Montresor family. That’s where the narrator holds his rare wine. He leads Fortunato deeper and deeper into the catacomb, while getting him more and more drunk along the way. At this time Fortunato is coughing dangerously

Read More
197 Words | 1 Pages

“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story about Montressor’s plan and execution of Fortunado, a man who was once his friend. The setting does a great job of foreshadowing Fortunado’s death. The setting starts off at “about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season.” This setting has a happy sense as well as darkness. The carnival is a joyous celebration that Fortunado and Montressor were taking part in.

Read More
597 Words | 3 Pages

He states that Fortunato is a respected man, and that he will be greatly missed, and that he is happy as he once had been. He insists on turning around, and Fortunato refuses. Fortunato says that a cold shall not kill him, and he insists on moving forward. Montresor, I believe, enjoys the irony and agrees that a cold shall not kill him, because he knows that he will be the cause of Fortunato’s death. Fortunato’s lack of knowledge allows his to easily fall for Montresor’s 3rd step in his

Read More

More about Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Cask Of Amontillado

Open Document