The Cask of Amontillado

The gun barrel of Amontillado Unexpected Endings In The barrelful Of Amontillado there are s everal themes shown by dint of fall out the short story. thither are only devil main char seconders in the story, and to each one shows their management of treason. The completed story is ground on treason, and lies. Fortunado is betrayed by Monresor, who in the check, bolt downs this elate earth. Montresor was supposedly betrayed by Fortunado, a story of which we are never told. Finally, we as the reader are betrayed by the fabricator, be run we are give so few details and logic to exactlyt up the story.Fortunado, Montresor, and the reader are betrayed end-to-end the short story, The caskful Of Amontillado. end-to-end the story, Montresor betrays Fortunado. He asks Fortunado to come into his catacombs aware that he would be protrudeing him. He taunts Fortunado by asking him if he postulate to go back, because he is sick. Montresor does so when saying Come, I said, wit h decision, we allow go back your health is scarce (Poe 535) However, when Fortunado insists he comes to taste the amontillado, he is in one case again betrayed by Montresor when he revels more of his wine.He becomes overly intoxicated and at one time again, is able to be taken advantage of. The entire walk through the catacombs Montresor betrays Fortunado by lying to him and bemock him about being sick. At the end of the story Montresor traps Fortunado by expression him into a small shackled space. A succession of loud and knifelike screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained convention, seemed to pressure me back violently (Poe 536). accord to Chad Dyer The story is written in the form of confession, its reader learning of Montresours vengeful number fifty historic period after its execution. (Dyer).When Montresor kills Fortunando he commits not only a huge curse but a lese majesty that is unbelievable to most people. Furtunado is a simpler, less(pr enominal) obvious betrayer. He is mentioned in the very(prenominal) ascendant cause a super acid injuries (Poe 533) causing Montresor to blasphemy upon r stock- smoothge (Poe 533). Despite all the mistake of Montresor, Fotunado was the beginning, and cause of it all. It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will (Poe 533). As the editorial team on Shmoop claims, Fortunado betrays himself by not paying abounding attention to his surroundings. Shmoop chromatography column Team). Fortunado was so severely intoxicated he didnt stop to wag the dead bodies surrounding him in the catacombs, not the fact that he was with a serviceman he has never been kindly with. He allowed himself to continually drink from the wine his enemy was providing without even the plan that it could be deadly. In the beginning of the story, Montresor tells us The thousand injuries of Furtunado I had borne as best I could (Poe 533) We further ar e never given every type of proof of what Fortunado had through with(p) to hurt Montrsor as much as he claims.We are never given an explanation, or even a slight hint of the error Fortunado had caused. This leaves one to suggest that maybe the narrator was impressive us a complete lie. The story was written to carry through us guessing. Throughout the entire walk through the catacombs, we had no clue what they were truly walking through. We were given vague descriptions of the bodies lining the walls. When he describes building the brick wall to trap Furtunado, he describes it in a very undetailed description. Montresor shows betrayal, as well as Fortunado, and the narrator.This proves it to be a common theme passim the story. It is shown through Montresor when he betrays Fortunado five-fold times. When he kills Fortunado, he lies to him throughout the story, and plans to kill him before he even agrees to drink wine with him. Fortunados betrayal, although never explained, is the beginning of all the betrayal throughout the story. He has hurt Montresor in a way so badly Montresor feels his only es capital lettere it to kill Fortunado. As the reader were betrayed throughout the entire story.We are told multiple things throughout the story, but nothing is ever proven. We have to assume the narrator is telling us the truth. The theme betrayal is shown dramatically through Poes eyes.Works Cited Dyer, Chad M. Edgar Allen Poes The Cask Of Amontillado. Diss. Ball State, 1992. N. p. n. p. , n. d. Web. <https//cardinalscholar. bsu. edu/bitstream/handle/190175/1/D94_1991DyerChadM. pdf>. Poe, Edgar A. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2003. Print. Riggs, Kait.The Cask of AmontilladoIrony Analysis of The Cask of Amontillado In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, the main character named Montresor is set out for revenge. Montresors only concern is to get revenge on the man who has wronged him named Fortuanto. Mon tresor never states why Fortunato deserves to be punished. The only statement Montresor makes is that Fortunato causes him a thousand injuries until venturing upon insult. (Poe, Online) Montresor plans to take out his revenge by burying Fortunato alive. Montresor carries out each detail while he smiles at his victim.Montresor doesnt smile at the thought of Fortunatos immolation but because of viciousness. (Sweet junior Online) Montresor smiles because he believes the sacrifice of Fortunato will bring him a great reward. Fortunato is ironically the mirror self of Montresor (Sweet junior Online). Montresors inclination to bury Fortunato alive paints the psychological portrait of repression (Sweet Jr. Online). The burial of Fortunato represses Montresors evil nature and puts him at peace. In The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe uses irony to develop his theme of quest buyback through repression.Poe uses Fortunatos name ironically to symbolize one spirit between Montresor an d Fortunato. though Fortunato means the fortunate one in Italian, Fortuanto meets an unfortunate mint as the victim Montresors overall revenge plot. (Stott, Online) Therefore, the Fortunato side of Montresor symbolizes part. Montresors desire is to repress Fortunato. Since the love of money is the root of all evils, a fortune would plunge a man into ruin and destruction (1Timothy 69-10). The Fortunato side of Montresors personality wants to have wealth.The wealth Fortunato put one overs makes him both respected and feared. (Poe, Online) By having wealth, Fortunato causes Montresor a thousand injuries(Poe, Online). When Fortunatos wealth gains the fear of others, he ventures upon imperious God (Poe, Online). When a man seeks greed for gain, he curses and renounces the Lord (Psalms 103). Montresor needs to repress Fortunato to protect his soul from damnation. (Stott, Online) The only way Montresor target protect himself is to get rid of Fortunato. Montresor bottomland repress t he aspect of his personality which insults God by burying Fortunato alive.Fortunato, ironically despite his name, faces a very unfortunate depute at the hands of Montresor. Montresors name explanation similar to Fortunatos in two ways. In French Montresors name combines the words montrer and sort significance to show chance (Clendenning, Online). Montresor shows Fortunato his fate but Fortunato receives no utterance to a threat about his fate. (Poe, Online) When Montresor shows Fortunato his fate of being buried alive it demonstrates that Fortunatos live burial is an act of repression. The second French translation for Montersor is my treasure.Through punishing Fortunato Montresor believes he can have the treasure of purity and repurchase. Fortunatos dress is ironic for a man with his stature in society. Fortunato is a man with stature who is rich, respected, and prize (Poe, Online). Fortunato wears a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head is surmounted by the conical cap and bells for the carnival. (Poe, Online). Instead of the cap representing Christs crown of thorns, the cap represents daemons role as Prince of Fools (Pittman, Online).Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Christians were able to receive salvation. Through Fortunatos sacrifice, Montresor will seek salvation. Montresor dresses more like a priest for the carnival season. Montresors black roquelaire symbolizes a priests black cope worn during a funeral mass. (Cooney, Online) Montresor dresses for the occasion that he is freeing to bury Fortunato. Montresors attire suggests that the repression of Fortunato will have an important eldritch reward. Through the repression of Fortunato, Montresor will reach salvation.The carnival setting ironically suggests a time for sin. The carnival season consists of the last indulgences in the pleasures of the inning (Pittman, Online). Fortunatos sin of abundantly drinking makes Montresors plan easy to tolerate out. The word carnival can be translated in Italian meaning to put away the flesh which demonstrates symbolic irony of Montresors smell for Fortunato (Clendenning, Online). Montresor can make himself free of sin and worthy of salvation by repressing the sinfulness of Fortunato. The catacombs are an ironic symbol of the way Montresor thinks.The repression begins when Montresor takes Fortunato into his family catacombs with the agreement of Amontillado wine. The catacombs are lined with human remains and that suggests generational family troubles (Poe, Online). Fortunato keeps going farther and farther into the catacombs with only his sinful thoughts of being able to drink more wine, not knowing he is moving closer and closer to his fate of being buried alive. The wall symbolizes the finish of the repression of Fortunato. Ironically, the wall forms Fortunatos burial crypt. (Sweet Jr. , Online) Salvation can only happen when sins are repented. formerly Fortunato yells For the love of God, Montresor , Montresor says Yes, . . . for the love of God (Poe, Online). Montresor believes that Fortunatos repression shows his love for God and demonstrates Montresor arrival salvation. The cask symbolizes a confession. Montresor tells the story fifty years later in a confession tone. When Montresor says, You, who so well know the nature of my soul, he implies a priest receives his confession (Sweet Jr. , Online).Montresor believes that Fortunatos burial was through in good. Montresor has no remorse as he confesses but, he still confesses. Montresors conscience knows Fortunatos burial is an evil deed. (Sweet Jr. , Online) Montresor ends by saying In pace requiescat (Poe, Online). Montresors prayer suggests that he desires time out from guilt, not forgiveness for a crime (Sweet Jr. 11). The feeling of salvation Montresor seeks through his confession doesnt happen. For a confession to receive absolution, the confessor must demonstrate the conviction of remorse. (Sweet Jr. , Online) Montresor is unab le to achieve the salvation he seeks through the repression of Fortunato. The Amontillado symbolizes Christs blood in communion. Christs blood offers the salvation that Montresor seeks. The Amontillado may lead Fortunato to his burial but it symbolizes the salvation Montresor wants to gain through repression. Fortunato wants to drink the wine out of pride and impulse while Montresor sees the wine as something that brings him the bond of communion and the reward of salvation.Edgar Allan Poes uses ironic symbols throughout The Cask of Amontillado. The ironic symbols helped him develop the theme of seeking salvation through repression. Fortunatos character was able to represent mans flesh and how people easily give in to the sins of the flesh while Montresor represents how man seeks salvation through acts of repression. Fortunato represents the side of Montresor that should confess but Montresor chooses to bury Fortunato which leads to the failure of his own salvation.The Cask of Amo ntilladoThe Cask of Amontillado Unexpected Endings In The Cask Of Amontillado there are several themes shown throughout the short story. There are only two main characters in the story, and each shows their way of betrayal. The entire story is based on betrayal, and lies. Fortunado is betrayed by Monresor, who in the end, kills this intoxicated man. Montresor was supposedly betrayed by Fortunado, a story of which we are never told. Finally, we as the reader are betrayed by the narrator, because we are given so few details and logic to back up the story.Fortunado, Montresor, and the reader are betrayed throughout the short story, The Cask Of Amontillado. Throughout the story, Montresor betrays Fortunado. He asks Fortunado to come into his catacombs aware that he would be killing him. He taunts Fortunado by asking him if he want to go back, because he is sick. Montresor does so when saying Come, I said, with decision, we will go back your health is precious (Poe 535) However, when For tunado insists he comes to taste the amontillado, he is once again betrayed by Montresor when he drinks more of his wine.He becomes overly intoxicated and once again, is able to be taken advantage of. The entire walk through the catacombs Montresor betrays Fortunado by lying to him and taunting him about being sick. At the end of the story Montresor traps Fortunado by building him into a small shackled space. A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me back violently (Poe 536). According to Chad Dyer The story is written in the form of confession, its reader learning of Montresours vengeful deed fifty years after its execution. (Dyer).When Montresor kills Fortunando he commits not only a huge crime but a betrayal that is unbelievable to most people. Furtunado is a simpler, less obvious betrayer. He is mentioned in the very beginning cause a thousand injuries (Poe 533) causing Montresor to vow upon revenge (Poe 533). Despite all the wrongdoing of Montresor, Fotunado was the beginning, and cause of it all. It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good will (Poe 533). As the editorial team on Shmoop claims, Fortunado betrays himself by not paying enough attention to his surroundings. Shmoop Editorial Team). Fortunado was so severely intoxicated he didnt stop to notice the dead bodies surrounding him in the catacombs, not the fact that he was with a man he has never been friendly with. He allowed himself to continually drink from the wine his enemy was providing without even the thought that it could be deadly. In the beginning of the story, Montresor tells us The thousand injuries of Furtunado I had borne as best I could (Poe 533) We however are never given any type of proof of what Fortunado had done to hurt Montrsor as much as he claims.We are never given an explanation, or even a slight clue of the wrongdoing Fortunado had caused. This leaves one to suggest that maybe the narrator was telling us a complete lie. The story was written to keep us guessing. Throughout the entire walk through the catacombs, we had no clue what they were truly walking through. We were given vague descriptions of the bodies lining the walls. When he describes building the brick wall to trap Furtunado, he describes it in a very undetailed description. Montresor shows betrayal, as well as Fortunado, and the narrator.This proves it to be a common theme throughout the story. It is shown through Montresor when he betrays Fortunado multiple times. When he kills Fortunado, he lies to him throughout the story, and plans to kill him before he even agrees to drink wine with him. Fortunados betrayal, although never explained, is the beginning of all the betrayal throughout the story. He has hurt Montresor in a way so badly Montresor feels his only escape it to kill Fortunado. As the reader were betrayed throughout the entire story.We are told multi ple things throughout the story, but nothing is ever proven. We have to assume the narrator is telling us the truth. The theme betrayal is shown dramatically through Poes eyes.Works Cited Dyer, Chad M. Edgar Allen Poes The Cask Of Amontillado. Diss. Ball State, 1992. N. p. n. p. , n. d. Web. <https//cardinalscholar. bsu. edu/bitstream/handle/190175/1/D94_1991DyerChadM. pdf>. Poe, Edgar A. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2003. Print. Riggs, Kait.