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The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

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The story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe displays the main character Montresor as a connoisseur in revenge. Montresor aids this idea by being able to manipulate his enemy Fortunato. He is able to control Fortunato by preying on his weakness towards wine tasting. Montresor asks if he can confirm that the wine is amontillado which ends up enticing Fortunato. Montresor is able to use Fortunato’s belief that he is a better wine connoisseur than Luchesi; “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry” (Poe 2). Believing that he is better than Luchesi, he followed Montresor into his wine cellar. His cellar is cold and covered with niter which aggravated Fortunato’s cold. Montresor uses this to his advantage by giving him some alcohol
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In order to have Fortunato follow him home, Montresor asks if he can help him decide if what he bought was an Amontillado. Fortunato has a weakness as a connoisseurship in wine, and agrees to help his friend. Secondly, Montresor continuously mentions how Luchresi could assist Montresor if Fortunato could not. This angered Fortunato, and pushed him to keep going.

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Montresor’s phony affection towards Fortunato gave Fortunato a false sense of security as he followed Montresor farther into the catacombs. This fake affection is first shown when Montresor tells Fortunato about the conditions of the vaults. Montresor states, “My friend, no. I will not impose upon your good nature... the vaults are insufferably damp.”

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In “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe displays the theme of revenge and manipulation. The narrator Montresor pledges revenge on Fortunato for an insult that is never explained. He maintains an appearance of goodwill towards Fortunato and decides to make use of Fortunato's weakness for fine wines against him. During the carnival season, the narrator approaches Fortunato, telling him that he has come across something that could pass for Amontillado a rare and expensive wine. Fortunato being excited about the news insists on accompanying Montresor to the vaults to determine whether it is Amontillado or not.

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Fortunato wanted to break bottles on his way down so that he could find his way out, because he is drunk from drinking all day. Montresor lead Fortunato downed the catacombs, the catacombs scared

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but he insisted on continuing even when the Montresor suggest they stop; Montresor knowing that Fortunato would not. He even offered Fortunato a drink to help the cough for he need to keep him alive to be able to kill him. “Drink”, he said “to the buried that repose around us.” “And I to your long life.”

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Do you think you could ever get away with murder? For Montresor, he thought he could. But he will soon realize the past can not be easily forgotten. Following the events after “The Cask of Amontillado”, you will see a man spiral into an abyss of fear as he comes to terms with killing(?) Fortunato, and the people close to him.

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The Cask of Amontillado is about two men named Montresor and Fortunato. As hate and revenge take over their lives because of wine. Montresor tricks Fortunato by telling him he has Amontillado in his cellar but he doesn't know if it's the real or not and he wants Fortunato to test it. Fortunato's favorite wine, and tells Fortunato that he will have someone  elsa to taste the wine.

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Montresor had to plan how he was going to get Fortunato into the catacombs without him being suspicious of anything. It was carnival time so Montresor used the party animal nature of his friend against him. " He had a weak point - this Fortunato - although in other regards he was a man to be respected or even feared" (p.1, 22-24). Montresor used Fortunato's love for wine to entice him into his trap. Montresor knew that if he asked Fortunato to help him decide if the wine really was Amontillado, but then saying that he could find someone else to help would make Fortunato aggravated because he prided himself so highly in his wine tasting abilities.

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Usually he is running around with new wine for me and Fortunato to try, stirring up conflict. If Fortunato and Montresor were together, I can only assume that Montresor had gotten his hands on some new wine. After the incident two years ago, I know that Montresor is not fond of betraying one of us and not informing us for a wine tasting. Two years and three

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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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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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