Montresor In The Cask Of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Cask of Amontillado, describes a tale of personal vendetta from what began as a public humiliation and ended in eventually torture. Montresor, the protagonist, is publicly humiliated by Fortunato; though this is not the first successful attempt from Fortunato to humiliate Montresor, this last insult was enough to send Montresor into a shameless vengeful spiral, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato…but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” (Poe 218). With the advantage of being cunning and deviant however, Montresor would be a less than ideal candidate for a political campaign manager. Using cultural knowledge of political campaign managers, they must be able to exercise restraint, separate their own personal

A political campaign manager’s job description entails that he is supposed to further the professional and public image of the political candidate that he is representing. Throughout the story, Montresor is only interested in furthering his own image and societal rise to power. The mention of the masons would have peaked Fortunatos interest, in a manner that would also not appear as Montresor “name dropping”. Montresor proves throughout the story that he is not a man that could be content fading into the backdrop of society and assisting someone else’s own agenda. Montresor does have several redeeming qualities that could assist him in other professions, however a political campaign manager would not be one. A political campaign manager must be rational and patient, professional at all time, and put aside their own personal agenda’s in the pursuit of the political candidate that they would serve. Montresor does not possess any of these qualities sadly. If by some chance that Montresor would be placed in this profession, he would almost assuredly be caught with severe ramification to both himself and his represented political