That Montresor is losing sight of humanity, which Poe is utilizing throughout the story. “But when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe 61). As you read it shows how focused Montresor is about revenge, that he will not stop until he gets his revenge on Fortunato. Montresor's satisfaction will only come from Fortunato's immense suffering.
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. "(Montressor; Cask of Amontillado) As the saying goes, hatred and grudges can lead to fatal circumstances. Edgar Allen Poe illustrates the concept of revenge through Montressors' demented thoughts and creates a sense that Montressor feels revenge should be considered okay because of the reasoning behind it.
Throughout the story Montresor expressed his extended hatred towards Fortunato, a fellow friend. With great care and patience he meticulously formed a plan to end Fortunato. However,
He wants to seek justice for how Fortunato has wronged him. He maintains this goal as he wants to “not only punish but punish with impunity” (Poe, 1). From Montresor’s point of view, he must enforce revenge on Fortunato, as it is what he believes is right. Ensuring that he wants to “punish with impunity” indicates his relentless pursuit of vengeance and how he must ensure that he faces no consequences for his actions. This way, Montresor reveals his underlying arrogance and belief in his superiority.
•Montresor does fulfill this definition of revenge. He boasts about how it has been fifty years since his crime and nobody has “disturbed” the catacomb that he has enclosed Fortunato. Regarding the second part, it is questionable. The fact that he is still telling this story a half century later may suggest that he is obsessed (“overtaken”) with his crime. And the third part, he did make himself known to Fortunato because Fortunato cries “For the love of God, Montresor” as he is being enclosed in the catacomb wall.
Revenge is almost always a personal matter, so nowhere in the book does it say anything about Montresor doing a good act, nor committing the will of the people. There is nothing in Poe’s novel that suggests Montresor was committing his crime
Have you ever wanted to get revenge but didn’t end up doing anything? Well, Montresor in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” gets revenge on a wine connoisseur. He states, “I vowed revenge. It was the nature of his soul.” In the story, Montresor plans his revenge to get back and kill Fortunato.
As said in the short story Fortunato insults Montresor in the past: “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe ). Due to Fortunato’s insults and his past injuries that he dealt to Montresor, Montresor plans his revenge and waits it out for the perfect time. As soon as the insult reaches Montresor’s ears his revenge is already placed in stone: “At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled” (Poe ). His reaction to Fortunato’s insult compels him to end their relationship and plot out his vengeance. Montresor’s revenge might be overdue as it is revealed that Fortunato has wronged Montresor more than once.
In life, mostly everyone will want revenge on someone they know that did wrong to them. When Montressor wanted revenge, he went insane and planned to kill the person who did him wrong. In the real world, most people do not try to kill someone if they did them wrong. Montressor is insane because of the way he got revenge on Fortunato. Poe proves in this story that some people use different, harsher ways to get revenge on
Revenge In the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake, both characters want revenge and they both kill their enemy, but their plans start in different ways and times. Both protagonists got revenge by killing their antagonists. Montresor had his murder plan thought out from the beginning while the narrator in the story written by Blake plan of revenge grows throughout the story. Montresor murders to get revenge on Fortunato.
To explain, Montresor was insulted by Fortunato, the resolution to this conflict should have been as simple as confronting Fortunato with his hurt feelings. Instead, Montresor decides “[he] would be avenged” (Poe 543). Because of the dramatic way Montresor decides to resolve the conflict between himself and his friend, his character is shifted towards an unruly one. Montresor has no regards for those around him, he has no insight to anyone but himself. As a result of the way he chooses to resolve conflicts, he allows the conflicts to take control of his every action.
Did Edgar Allan Poe intentionally draw in readers by creating intriguing characters in his stories? Poe used specific characterization about his character Montresor in “The Cask of Amontillado” making him a character that is dynamic. Edgar Allan Poe created a malicious, vengeful, and contemptuous character by the name of Montresor in the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” One specific detail of characterization that Poe used was vengeful throughout the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Montresor was vengeful because he wanted to get revenge on Fortunato. Reasons why Montresor was vengeful was because Fortunato insulted Montresor and it ticked Montresor off so he stated, “ I vowed revenge.”
Being an unreliable narrator makes the reader wonder how much he had to include deceit in his story simply to justify his actions to himself. It is very possible that Fortunato was not, in fact, deserving of his death in this manner, and Montresor took a few of his innocent gestures or deeds the wrong way. His personality is full of deceit in the way that he manipulates people into giving him what he wants, too. In hindsight of the murder, Montresor recalls that “he had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship of wine” (Poe 87).
In the beginning of the short story, Montresor defines revenge on his friend Fortunato for believing he has insulted him. Montresor has become angry that his friend is taking advantage of him and overlooking at him like a fool,
Montresor is a grudge holder. In the beginning, Montresor, explains why he is angry with Fortunato, but didn’t come into detail of what he did to him. Evidently, Fortunato injured and insulted Montresor, who says that he has endured peacefully as Fortunato repeatedly offended him thousands of time. Fifty year ago, Fortunato use to deny what Montresor would say about, who he was or what he had done, as if it was untrue. Montresor would argue back and forth with him explaining that it was true.
