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Pride In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

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Too much pride can lead to one’s downfall. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is riddled with the underlying theme of pride that the narrator, Montresor, and his victim, Fortunato, experiences throughout the narrator’s deliberate plan of revenge. The theme of pride plays a role in Fortunato’s affection with his wine and in Montresor’s emotions leading up to killing Fortunato. During the events leading up to Fortunato's death, pride plays a role in Montresor’s emotions. For example, the short story opens with the line, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge (Poe 467).” This line shows the significance of Montresor’s revenge that he has been
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