Who Is Montresor Evil

There can be many different interpretations of the word “evil,” like who qualifies to be evil and who is just a person with some character issues. Though there are many interpretations, they all run along the same lines: a truly evil person physically and psychologically harms the good people in the world for a bad reason.The criteria for whether someone is evil or not are whether or not they show remorse, the number of people killed, motive, and method of killing. The number of people matters because it shows if the person is a mass murderer or just a murderer that struck on impulse. The motive matters because if the person just killed someone for little or no reason it would show that they are more cold-hearted than someone with a better

The method of killing is important because if it was more torturous the killer most likely did not have concern for how much it hurt the person physically or psychologically. Montresor, a villain from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” was insulted by a man named Fortunato one day on the street and was so angry about it that he vowed revenge. Montresor ended up chaining Fortunato to a wall in the catacombs and walling it up to leave him there to die. Montresor is the most evil villain of all the applicants and should be inducted into the Villain Hall of Fame because Montresor has the worst motive of the applicants, his method of killing is the most physically and psychologically grueling, and he shows absolutely no remorse for his

This was the worst motive out of any of the villains being considered because it was just an insult uttered once.In the beginning of “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor is telling the reader that he saw Fortunato on the streets and, “...when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well knows my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged...” (Poe 58).The worst form of motive for murder is a motive that makes little to no sense. This line from the story shows that he vowed to get revenge on Fortunato just because he insulted him one day in the streets. An insult, no matter how bad, can hurt a person emotionally, but it is never cause to kill someone. Due to this, Montresor is the most evil villain out of the four villains being considered because he had a motive that did not make much sense. Some might say that the townspeople from “The Lottery” had a worse motive than Montresor because they were just killing due to conformity. In the beginning of “The Lottery” the narrator is talking about the town when she states that, “...there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so...” (Jackson 1). If you are being a conformist then you would just be doing what is seen as normal. Since nobody in the town is seeing themselves as doing