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Fortunato In The Cask Of Amontillado

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Ron White once said "I believe that life gives people lemons, they should make lemonade... and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party." In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Fortunato was drunk and insulted Montressor. Fortunato being intoxicated lead him to believe and fall for things easier. Montressor had buried Fortunato alive and Fortunato thought it was all a joke. Fortunato makes himself an easy target because he is too gullible, he is impatient, and he is easily manipulated. First, Fortunato is too trusting, he does not realize that Montressor is trying to set him up. Due to the fact the Fortunato is never sober, we can see that he goes anywhere anyone tells him to. He lets Montressor take him by the arm and takes him to find the amontillado. " 'He raised it to his lips with a leer. He paused and nodded to me familiarly, while his bells jingled. I drink, he said, to the buried that repose around us. And I to your long life. He again took my arm, and we proceeded' " (p. 2, l. 56-62). The fact that Fortunato decides to trust everyone, shows …show more content…

We can see that Fortunato is a little happy to see Montressor, he barely knows the guy but is too drunk to realize it. He has a smile on his face like he is having a good time. "It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my to smile now was at the thought of his immolation" (p. 1, l. 16-20). Also, the fact Fortunato is amazed to see Montressor, reveals that he is looking to get set up. Montressor saw the perfect opportunity to get his revenge. Fortunato does not understand what he go himself into. It is clear from this situation that Fortunato was surprised to see Montressor, but did not know why Montressor was

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Montressor reveals that he never did anything to cause Fortunato doubt of his good-will. He smiled in Fortunato's face because he was thinking of Fortunato's immolation or fate. "I must not only punish, but punish with impunity." (Montressor; Cask of Amontillado) Montressor says that quote

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The quote proves that Montresor would abuse this and get him drunk so he wouldn’t suspect Montresor was about to kill him. This was the big reason for Fortunato’s downfall. Another example Montresor points out that he’s a drunk is when he says “He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine”(1). If he hadn’t been so influenced on wine he would have lived for a couple more days until Montresor's next plot.

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He has plotted a revenge for him so that Fortunato could get what he deserved. Montresor planned for Fortunato to get drunk and then lure him to his home where he will kill him . After Fortunato is led back to Montresor’s house be deceiving him and took him to the catacombs of the Mansion where the supposed Amontillado wine is. Montresor was planning to trap Fortunato in the catacombs to kill him, this is an extremely horrible death. Dying of starvation or thirst would be a painful way to go especially in a dark catacomb surrounded by skeletons and the smell of rot and dampness.

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Montressor gains Fortunato's trust by constantly poking at him about his safety. "We will go back; your health is precious, " shows how Montressor pretends to care for him to gain his trust.   Fortunato is an easily fooled person which is why he had no second thoughts when Montressor said there was a pipe of Amontillado in the catacombs. His trust

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In the story “The Cask of Amontillado” everyone gets together at the festival. While the event is going on Montresor says, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne an I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” Fortunato told Montresor he would get some of Lachish wine instead of his. Fortunato had a drinking problem which helped Montresor plan to chain him to the wall. Half of the time Fortunato didn’t know where he was.

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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

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Fortunato is a fool because he doesn’t get what Montresor is doing. He especially doesn’t take Montresor’s ‘cues’ to leave the crypt and go home. Fortunato’s stupid self wants to taste the wine no matter how dangerous it is. I guess Fortunato didn’t deserve what Montresor did to him; I mean Fortunato is not the smartest person. Montresor was capped with anger, and probably didn’t realize what he was doing to poor Fortunato until it was all over with.

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One can gather from the line and the short story as a whole that Fortunato was an aristocrat, and extremely wealthy. His probable birth into nobility, and an assumed life of security and comfort provides background information as to why he is so unsuspecting of Montresor’s motives. His love of wine and the fact that he ‘had been drinking much’ also adds context as to why Fortunato would willingly let a man whom he’d insulted lead him to his

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Due to the fact that Montresor is determined he makes Fortunato have some trust in him which allows his plan to

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This shows that Fortunato is ignorant because it says that he doesn’t know the smile is caused because of the thought of his death, so that means he is not knowing of his death. During this story, Fortunato is also known to be jealous. You can tell he is jealous because when Montresor mentions that Luchasi can taste the Amontillado instead Fortunato starts to say bad things about Luchasi and insists that he tastes it instead. “I am on my way to Luchasi. If anyone has a critical turn, it is he. …

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Fortunato is a fun loving character who is able to live life almost carefreely. However, Fortunato is also full of ignorance in regards to his current position with Montresor, especially when he is drunk. Due to his persistent ignorance and pride, Fortunato fails to see any danger or harm that he faces; instead, he only sees the hope of tasting a rare wine despite the obvious signs to the contrary. He misses his chances to turn back and his chances to escape, instead, Fortunato invests himself fully in the venture. By the time he realizes his ignorance, Fortunato finds himself chained to a wall while another one is being built in front of him.

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Montresor does play it off as if Fortunato is his friend. As you know if you read the story Montresor kills Fortunato. Edgar Allan Poe’s setting in the story adds suspense because they are underground, so that makes it weird around all those dead

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Montresor then starts to easily manipulate Fortunato. Montresor uses Fortunato’s vanity against him to get what he wants. Fortunato thinks that Montresor has nothing against him and just wants him to taste wine. Fortunato goes with Montresor, and in doing this Fortunato becomes complicit in his own demise by insisting on sampling the amontillado. This allows Montresor to take control and lure Fortunato to the vaults, where Montresor becomes murderous.

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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

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Montresor told Fortunato that he is a “rich, respected, admired, beloved” (86) man. He does not actually think that. When he says he “must not only punish” (83) Fortunato, but he must “punish [him] with impunity” (83), which he does. The first step in Montresor's plan is to get Fortunato to go in the catacombs. He says to Fortunato, “Come, we will go back, your health is precious” (86).

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