Foreshadowing In The Cask Of Amontillado

The story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story that expresses revenge and betrayal. The story introduces darkness and pure evil through Montresor and through situations in the story. The main character Montresor is a devious and cruel person leading a fellow friend to his own death. The second character the author uses in the story is Fortunato. Fortunato has a huge ego and is obsessed with wine because of that Montresor uses that towards his advantage and leads Fortunato to his death. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “the Cask of Amontillado” the theme of betrayal can be presented through first person point of view, irony, and foreshadowing

The theme of betrayal can be seen through Montresor first person point of view. Throughout the story, it’s easy to

In the beginning of the story when Montresor was dressed as an executioner and Fortunato was dressed as a joker that right there is a huge sign of foreshadowing. That showed that Fortunato was a fool and that later in the story Montresor was going to kill him. Throughout the story, Montresor is walking Fortunato through the catacombs leading him to what Fortunato believes to be Amontillado but he is really being lead to his death. As Montresor walked Fortunato through the catacombs there were bones scattered everywhere “We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs” (Poe 181). Here Edgar Allan Poe showed many signs that Fortunato’s death is close to come and that Fortunato’s high level of intoxication wasn’t letting him see anything coming. Foreshadowing can be seen many times in the story one being when Montresor was guiding Fortunato through the catacombs and while walking Montresor noticed spider webs all over the walls. That foreshadowed Fortunato being trapped later in the story and being killed just like a spider when it captures its prey in the