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Justice In Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado

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Justice is, the quality of being just, we all know that justice is when we are the ones who receives it. The author of “The Cask of Amontillado” is Edgar Allen Poe. In the story of “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor is angry at Fortunato for insulting him. Therefore he seeks justice. Montresor wants Fortunato to know that nobody insults him and gets away with it. So he decides to kill him by, putting him in the wall ALIVE!! Fortunato has no idea that Montresor is going to do that to him. Montresor accomplishes killing Fortunato by his intelligence, loyalty, and relentlessness. Montresor was so intelligent that his plan was thought out down to the bone. Montresor brought Fortunato to his family’s catacombs, “ There were no attendants at …show more content…

Down in the catacombs, Montresor is teasing Fortunato. Then Montresor is starting to put the wall up with Fortunato in it alive, “I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh ; there remained, but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its weight ; I place it partially in its destined position.” (page 4) Montresor was killing Fortunato alive, by putting him in the wall and covering it up so that no one will be able to find him. He wanted him to suffer and die a long, slowly death. Another time Montresor showed relentlessness was when he said his heart grew sick. After everything happened, “My heart grew sick - on account of the dampness of the catacombs.”(page 4) Right there he could 've been thinking about what he had just did, and be regretting what he just did. Then he says, “to the account of the catacombs.”, what he means there is he is telling you what it could be, and not on regret. Montresor completes killing Fortunato with his intelligence, loyalty, and relentlessness of what Fortunato did to him. “The Cask of Amontillado” is about Montresor killing Fortunato, because he insulted him. Also how he did it. Fortunato has no clue that Montresor is going to put him in the wall alive. What pushed Montresor so hard to kill

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He exploits this and deceives the man to go down into the caverns that housed the supposed Amontillado. Furthermore, Montresor never tells the reader what Fortunato actually did. He only states, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe, 360). Insults do not call for homicide.

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As readers, we have no idea what Fortunato did to Montresor or his family name to drive him to such revenge. Poe hints at certain things, from revenge and the family crest to his arrogance of insisting that Fortunato penetrate the Montresor vault to acquire the esteemed Cask Amontillado. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge" (1126). The only clue is that Montresor systematically closes up Fortunato in a bone chamber perhaps with others who have wronged his family in the past. However, due to the reader's not knowing his true injustice, his murder seems unjustified and maybe even cruel to some

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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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