Alcohol consumption had impacted among the people for centuries. People consumed alcohol as a way to relieve from stress. Like the author of the story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe had stressed over a prolonged period, which lead his life in depress and consuming alcohol. When he wrote stories and poems, he was drinking and the health of his wife was getting worse. This led him in deeply drunk that alcohol was everything to him. The more depress that he had become over the years, the more alcohol he consumed and destroy his body. “Edgar Poe died on October 7, 1849 in Washington College Hospital and some experts believe that alcoholism led to demise while others have other thought” (qtd. in Beidler). For example, in the story …show more content…
Montresor do knows that Fortunato will not die of a cough, but from the dehydration and starvation in the crypt. Fortunato gives excuse as to his cough relates to his love of wine. The motto “nemo me impune lacessit,” which is, “no one attacks me with impunity” means that no one will be able to act against me without worry of punishment. The motto to Montresor has another meaning as that the circumstance must exist, so to support the motto and as Montresor has repeatedly been offended that his motto stands as a warning to others. Even though Montresor is having a revenge on Fortunato, but Fortunato still has no idea about and look into Montresor as a …show more content…
“According to research that individuals may be more likely to be put themselves in risky health behaviors when they are around others also engaged in those behaviors” (qtd. in Varela). Poe writes stories by making a connection with the links of mind and matter to the center of the soul, which makes his story, “The Cask of Amontillado” to be illustrated as evil. “The relationship between stress and alcohol drinking is complicated by a host of alcohol-related factors such as history of use, level and pattern of drinking, or timing of accessibility of alcohol in relation to stress experience as well as stress-related factors such as type, chronicity, predictability, and controllability that intersect with a number of biological variables in genetics, age, and sex” (qtd. in Becker). For example, according to Clarke, Uhart, and Wand “clear individual differences exist in sensitivity tom perception of, and responsiveness to stress and alcohol, and both clinical and preclinical evidence indicate that genetic factors help shape the nature of the relationship between stress and alcohol drinking” (qtd. in Becker). In another word, alcohol and stress to depress actually goes in hand in hand, which it could change the way how the people behave and thinks. When Poe 's wife was ill and later passed away, it really brought Poe down to the bottom where he couldn 't live without her and he was previously alcoholic but
Edgar Allan Poe published in The Cask of Amontillado in 1846. He is known for his gothic and dark writing style. In The Cask of Amontillado, the main character Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato. The story follows Montresor’s plan for revenge and ends with the murder of Fortunato. Montresor’s actions are bizarre and uncalled for, especially after he never explains the motive for the murder. After analyzing Montresor’s actions and examining his mental state, and the crime he committed, I have concluded that he suffered from Antisocial Personality Disorder. “A personality disorder that is characterized by antisocial behavior exhibiting pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights, feelings, and safety of others starting in childhood
1. What can the reader infer about Montresor’s social position and character from hints in the text? What evidence does the text provide that Montresor is an unreliable narrator? We learned from paragraph 23 to 24 that Montresor owns a Palazzo and also has lot of retainers based on that evidence, the reader can infer that Montresor is a very wealthy and successful man. About his character, the reader can imply that Montresor is a heartless, cold blooded, sneaky, manipulative, and untrustworthy man, as well as a man who hold on to grudges. Moreover, Montresor is an unreliable narrator, because he reveals in the first paragraph that he intends to have a revenge on Fortunato, but he did not indicate or clearly prove to the readers how Fortunato
German poet Friedrich Schiller once said “Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.” The burning sensation you feel inside when imagining how to get back at someone who has wronged you has tremendous power, and more often than not it leads to hurting yourself more than what was done in the first place. In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe the protagonist Montresor gets revenge on his dear old friend Fortunato without causing any more pain to himself. The setting of this story is limited to two different places. While they contrast each other in certain aspects the carnival and Montresor family catacombs go hand in hand to portray the implicit meaning of the feud
Horror themed stories frighten, scare, or startle the reader by inducing feelings of terror and dread. In The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe tells the tale of Montresor, a disgruntled noble man who plots revenge on his adversary. Montresor declares that another noble man named Fortunato that has constantly battered him and insulted him. Montresor has plotted his revenge over time and has carefully constructed a plan to blatantly and consciously destroy Fortunato right before his very eyes. The most terrifying aspect of Montresor’s plan is the methodical nature in which he leads Fortunato to his doom. Poe continually builds terror in The Cask of Amontillado, masterfully utilizing plot, setting and symbolism to develop horror in his classic
Substance abuse plays a role in more than one of Poe's works. In the black cat alcohol drives the narrator to rip out his cats eye with with a pen and then hang the cat in guilt of what he had done. The narrator was a kind hearted man who loved animals and would do nothing to hurt them until he started to drink. He became an angrier person, always getting enraged with the people and creatures around him and his personality changed for the worse. Substance abuse changed him and drove him to be a different person than he really was. After killing the cat he felt little to no remorse for the deed he had committed and went back to his drinking and partying.Eventually his drinking led him to kill his wife, substance abuse changed him into a cold hearted man who could rationalize killing his wife and getting away with it.
Poe lived in poverty all of his life, never seeing enough money from his writings to allow him to live comfortably, and never seeing his writing arrive at the famed status that it has today. Poe drank heavily throughout his life due to all of the downfalls he suffered. In between these drinking binges Poe had spurts of creativity, this is when he wrote his best material (E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore Inc. "Poe, Drugs and Alcohol" 1). Poe's sad and troubled life gave him the material he needed to create stories and poems that would capture his audience. Though Poe lived a hard life and was criticized by many for being evil and demonic, his stories and poems are still with us today as some of the greatest American literature ever published. Edgar Allan Poe's life experiences including the untimely death of his parents, his use of drugs and alcohol, the many other deaths in his life, and his unhealthy relationships with women influenced his tales and poems now famed for being dark and horrific in tone.
...Unfortunately, Poe wrote about what he could not seem to escape, the continuous death and loss of the people around him. The loneliness and sorrow Poe experienced through out his life was the driving force behind his work. The substance abuse came as a result of the emptiness and sorrow Poe felt, resulting in the self-destruction and eventual end to his own life. In spite of his own tragedies, he remains one of the most treasured and beloved writers' in American history. His haunting poems and stories will be read by numerous generations.
Montresor shows remorse by offering Fortunato foresight. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” there is a slight contradicting factor to White’s claim of Montresor’s loyalty to the motto and his lack of remorse. After having planned his revengeful murder, Montresor shows that he is reluctant and unfaithful to the motto by suggesting opportunities to abandon its declaration. Just moments after Montresor begin his scheme, he attempted to persuade Fortunato out of his plan as if he instantly regretted it. Montresor twice urged Fortunato “My friend, no…” (Poe, 2), as if there was something deeper he wanted to say but couldn’t. He couldn’t for the reason of pride. He was pressured as being a part of the Montresor lineage to act on the motto. Afraid of being condemned by his family if he was to forsake it. Even after Montresor tried to save his friend from himself, he still mentally battled the pressure that his family puts on the values, and the morals of taking a human life. Once the plot was nearly carried out, and
Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado is a story about fear and revenge. The story begins with Montressor's vow of revenge, foreshadowing future actions. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult vowed revenge..." Montressor had to be sure not to raise suspicion of what he was going to do Fortunato. Montressor knew that Fortunato had a weakness that he could use towards his advantage.
The Case of Amontallido In a psychological perspective, the author’s life is linked with the behavior and motivations of characters in the story. The author’s name is Edgar Allan’s Poe who portrayed his self in his writing. The miserable life of Poe can be measured through “The Cask of Amontillado” in which character named “Montressor” showed indifferent feeling towards his victim. After burying Fortunado alive, Montressor felt bad after burying his victim alive but then he attributes the feeling of guilt to the damp catacombs.
While at the carnival, Montresor bought some of the finest Amontillado wine to use in his vengeful plan to murder Fortunato. He then meets his "friend," Fortunato. Fortunato is wearing "a tight fitting parti-striped dress and head is surmounted by the conical cap and bells" (Poe 528). By him wearing this outfit, makes it great for the narrator because he is going to make a fool out of Fortunato. Montresor is a manipulative person. He challenges Fortunato's connoisseurship on wine tasting and leads him to his family estate.
Thompson discusses the significance of Montresor’s family motto, “These details are essential to our understanding of the family imperatives rooted in Montresor 's mind as he plans and carries out the killing of Fortunato. ‘Nemo me impune lacessit.’ Montresor 's family motto has been translated, ‘No one attacks me with impunity’"(Thompson 552). This means that anyone who attacks the family name is warrant for
Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s life, death was a frequent visitor to those he loved around him. When Poe was only 3 years old, his loving mother died of Tuberculosis. Because Poe’s father left when he was an infant, he was now an orphan and went to live with the Allan’s. His stepmother was very affectionate towards Edgar and was a very prominent figure in his life. However, years later she also died from Tuberculosis, leaving Poe lonely and forlorn. Also, later on, when Poe was 26, he married his cousin 13-year-old Virginia, whom he adored. But, his happiness did not last long, and Virginia also died of Tuberculosis, otherwise known as the Red Death, a few years later. After Virginia’s death, Poe turned to alcohol and became isolated and reckless. Due to Edgar Allan Poe’s loss of those he cared for throughout his life, Poe’s obsession with death is evident in his works of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, in which in all three death is used to produce guilt.
There are many times where the narrator describes his actions towards his loved ones while under the influence of alcohol. Since the narrator is trying to draw the attention to his consumption of alcohol, he tries to make sure that his actions trace back to it. In the short story, the narrator says "But my disease grew upon me -- for what disease is like Alcohol !..."(Poe 23) which shows his addiction for alcohol becoming stronger. The narrator's madness seems to be heightened by the alcohol. He begins to chan...
Montressor 's family used murder to extract their revenge as their motto states “Nemo me impune lacessit”(Poe 1). Revenge is finally achieved when Fortunato is murdered and Montressor lays the final brick in the wall when it comes to the life of Fortunato. The symbols in “Cask of Amontillado” begins with the title as the cask of amontillado is Fortunato as this caused his death. Fortunato 's outfit is that of a fool and being lured and unaware of his surroundings can be seen as Fortunato being a