Abstract: In The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator Montresor wants to get revenge on Fortunato by murdering him. He never reveals the reason why he want to murder him though. One day he meets Fortuanto during the carnival when he is drunk. He tells Fortunato that he has received a cask of Amontillado but he isn't sure if it is or not. He says how he is going to another guy to see if it is real or not. Fortuanto says that that guy , Luchesi, knows nothing and insists on seeing it. They then go to Montresor's vaults or catacombs to get it. When they get to the catacombs, there is this little niche which would fit a person. Fortuanto goes into it and then realizes there is a wall at the other end, and he can't get out. Montresor then chains him up and proceeds to build a wall to close the niche. Forunato then realizes what is happening. At first, he begins screaming and shaking the chains. Then Montresor yells louder than him and mocks him. Later, Fortuanto thinks it is a joke and his wife will be waiting for him. Montresor then finishes the wall and leaves Forunato there to die. At the end, he says how no one has discovered Forunato's body for 50 years, and he hasn't been caught.
Response: This story was interesting. Forunato's name looks a lot like Fortune which is contradictory because he is obviously not very fortunate since he was murdered. Montresor's name looks a lot like monster to me which goes well with his character/personality considering he murdered someone. Montresor is obviously mad/crazy because he killed someone. He enjoyed it too because he would stop and listen to Forunanto scream and call out for help. He would also mock him. At the end he says, "My heart grew sick" (19). His heart only grew sick though he reveals because of how cold it is in the catacombs. Why did Mostresor want to get revenge on Fortunato? Montresor says how Forunanto is a rich, respected man who would be missed if he was dead. Montresor then says how it would not be the case for himself. Is Montreour jealous of Foruanto or did Forunato do something to Montresor? It was probably something big that Forunato did to Montresor in order for Montresor to want to murder him, or maybe Montresor was just crazy and Fortunato didn't really do anything that bad to him because you have to have something wrong with you in order to murder someone else and find extreme enjoyment in it. Why does Poe write stories that are so scary? Did Poe write them because he was depressed or maybe a little deranged? Poe was abandoned as a child by his father and then his mother died, so that could have influenced him later in his life and left him some issues. He also had a drinking problem. What was Poe's inspiration for this story? Did he want to maybe subconsciously murder someone or get revenge on someone else for what they had done? Or maybe Poe just had heard about something similar to this story during his life and it inspired him, so he embellished it.
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