Montresor Poetic Justice
analytical Essay
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of the Amontillado”, Montresor has always been viewed as a sociopath. He is a man who lured his friend into his family 's catacombs by lying to him. He then got his friend, Fortunato, drunk enough that he did not know what was going on. Montresor then chained his friend to a wall and boxed him in with mortar, all as an act of revenge and justice in his eyes. Although Montresor trapping Fortunato in the catacombs can be viewed as a cold, evil, heartless act, it does not mean that Fortunato’s death was meaningless. Montresor viewed Fortunato’s death as poetic justice, but others can not help but think of the irony of the situation. Poetic justice is defined as a result or occurrence that seems proper because someone …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how montresor is viewed as a sociopath in edgar allen poe's "the cask of the amontillado".
- Analyzes how poe uses dramatic irony and poetic justice in the beginning of the story.
- Analyzes how thompson discusses the significance of montresor's family motto, "nemo me impune lacessit," which means that anyone who attacks the family name is warrant for retaliation.
- Analyzes how the protagonist destroys fortunato, who metaphorically represents the serpent that has dared to attack montresor.
- Analyzes how baraban explains the meaning of the coat of arms and the justice that montresor finds by killing fortunato.
- Analyzes how edgar allen poe uses irony and poetic justice throughout "the cask of the amontillado". the scenes where montresor speaks of fortunato's wronging, the coat of arms, and the catacombs show the use of these two tools.
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 …show more content…
Thompson states, “He similarly shows confidence in the rightness of his action in his last words to Fortunato. Fortunato, desperate for his life, pleads, ‘For the love of God, Montresor!’ Montresor, with what must strike Fortunato as biting irony, replies, ‘Yes,... for the love of God!’. He is doing this ... not ‘For God and Country!’but for ..., "For God and family!"(555) This shows the irony of the situation. Fortunato expected this all to be a joke, but he soon realizes that it is not. This also shows the final example of poetic justice. Montresor commits murder for the love and the name of his family which Fortunato has disgraced. Edgar Allen Poe uses irony and poetic justice all throughout “The Cask of the Amontillado”. The places where irony and poetic justice hold the most significance are the scenes where, Montresor speaks of the wronging done to him by Fortunato, where Montresor and fortunato speak of the coat of arms, and where at the very end when Montresor traps Fortunato in the catacombs and leaves him to die. These scenes clearly show the use of these two tools that Poe used to tell the story of Montresor and
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- Analyzes how poe uses symbolism to try to answer questions in the short story "cask of amontillado"
- Analyzes how the name fortunato is ironic in the poem because he is nothing but fortunate and dies.
- Analyzes how montresor's family motto is something similar to nobody harms me without being harmed.
- Analyzes how brighthub education.com portrays the narrator's treasure as the knowledge of the perfect revenge.
- Narrates how montresor kills fortunato in the most diabolical manner and lives up to his family motto.
- Analyzes how trent lorcher thinks that fortunato is dressed as a fool because in reality he was one who fell for the well-set trap of death.
- Analyzes how fortunato's pride is that he knows a good and bad wine and can tell the difrence in wines. he prided himself on his connoisseurship.
- Analyzes how fortunato's festive outfit contrasts with the ghastly fate that awaits him. it is a story of true madness, but it would have been insane if montresor had put on the motley himself.
- Explains that the word cask is a sturdy cylindrical container for storing liquids. fortunato's pasion for good wine leaves him susceptible to flattery.
- Analyzes how the atmoshere changes drastically when the two protagonists leave the gaiety of the carnival for the gloomy and desolate catacombs.
- Analyzes how kerry michael wood confirms and says "the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are inbedded in the heel." anyone wants justice if it is something history has taught us is we want revenge/ justice
- Analyzes how the backdrop of carnival season lends the story its fantastic nature, a nature trumped only by the madness of montresor's revenge.
- Opines that shmoop editorial team suggest that "this is ironic because he’d have to be complete fool to think montresor is going to undo all those layers of bricks and let him out."
- Analyzes how trent lorcher reports that fortunato refers to the masonic order and montresor pulls out a trowel, referring to brick layers.
- Analyzes how fortunato thinks montresor means that he is happy to see him because of his expertise; meeting is luckily because carnival presents an excellent time for murder.
- Analyzes the irony of fortunato not knowing the meaning of montresor's smile as do the hearers of the tale. he was happy to see him and knowing he was ghana kill him.
- Analyzes how the characters, fortunato and montresor, are represented by symbolism and irony.
- Describes the works of lorcher trent and russ.rj in "the cask of amontillado."
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- Analyzes how poe's use of possession and suffering gives the impression that montresor is being afflicted again by fortunato.
- Analyzes how poe's portrayal of montresor and fortunato is a parallel to the action throughout the story.
- Analyzes how poe never reveals what fortunato's transgressions are that leave him buried and burned alive by montresor.
- Compares edgar allan poe's "the cask of amontillado" to the "black cat". both have themes of revenge where the supposed victim becomes the villain of the story.
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- Analyzes how poe's "the cask of amontillado" features vengeance through a secret murder to avoid the use of the legal system for doing him justice.
- Analyzes how poe uses foreshadowing to add suspense to the story, such as when fortunato starts to cough and montresor asks him if he wants to go back.
- Analyzes how the closing moment of dialogue between montresor and fortunato amplify the terror and proposes that fortuneto ironically achieves a type of advantage over
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- Explains that in edgar allan poe's "the cask of amontillado," montresor seeks revenge against fortunato and thinks he has developed the perfect plan for "revenge with impunity."
- Analyzes how poe uses irony and symbolism to develop his theme of a man who tries to gain absolution for the sin he is about to commit in "the cask of amontillado."
- Analyzes how poe develops a powerful ironic representation whereby fortunato is the sinful and ruthless side of montresor.
- Analyzes how the passage refers to the perceived insult that was caused by fortunato on montresor and the revenge, which he plans on taking out on him.
- Analyzes how montresor's murder plot became subconsciously manifest in those two words. dramatic irony is inherent in speeches or situations of a drama and is understood by the audience.
- Opines that montresor's plot to murder fortunato after they go into the catacombs is only known to the reader and .
- Analyzes montresor's dramatic twist in "the cask of amontillado": he doesn't want fortunato to die from anything other than his own plan of slow death by asphyxiation.
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- Analyzes how poe uses various ironic symbolism to suggest that fortunato and montresor are parallels of one personality.
- Analyzes how montresor's desire to bury fortunato alive paints the psychological portrait of repression.
- Analyzes how montresor's premature burial of his mirror self in his ancestral home paints the psychological portrait of repression. the wall in the catacombs symbolizes fortunato’s burial chamber.
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- Opines that montresor did not gain forgiveness for the sin he committed.
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- Opines that edgar allan poe's life was a chain of tragedies adding up to some kind of mental disturbance.
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- Analyzes how edgar allan poe's works have stayed famous and are still used in schools. the presence of maturity is shown in the well-planned act of revenge montressor holds against fortunato.
- Explains that edgar allan poe's stories have a creeping horror persona because of their gothic sensibilities.
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- Analyzes how edgar allan poe uses irony and first-person narrative to evoke a sense of horror in his writings. he made gothicism more horrifying by bringing in psychological elements.
- Opines that t. s. eliot was wrong in accusing edgar allan poe of dabbled in verse and prose, as he could easily be judged likewise.
- Analyzes how edgar allan poe made his way through literature all these years despite being disliked by some for his writings. history has witnessed that the evil side of human nature hasremained unchanged by passing time.
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- Analyzes how edgar allan poe's stories have stayed popular because of the maturity within the stories and the gothic nature which brings creeping horror persona.
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- Explains that the beginning of the process of perversion starts with an idea. montresor contemplates on whether to enact revenge on fortunato.
- Narrates how they arrested themselves in the act of murmuring, half aloud, these customary syllables. in a fit of petulance, they remodelled them thus: "i am safe if i be not fool enough to make open confession!"
- Analyzes how the man catches himself saying things out while walking in the streets. instead of fighting his urge, he resorts to repeating the phrase "i am safe".
- Narrates how a man decides to repeat "i am safe" as an alternative option that could send him straight to prison. the idea started off small, but it ended up growing into something much more unstable.
- Opines that a wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its readresser, and it is equally unreached when the venger fails to make himself felt as such.
- Analyzes how montresor feels that revenge would be incomplete without victim knowing that it was him who killed him.
- Analyzes how montresor had had enough and was going to get revenge on fortunato. he had to make sure that he did so without getting caught.
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- Analyzes how montresor lures fortunato to 'amontillado' wine, which makes him appear weak and activates his motive for revenge.
- Analyzes how fortunato does not see anything wrong even when chains are tied around him. the carnival proved to be a great opportunity for him to enact his plan.
- Analyzes how montresor knows the position that fortunato holds among the people and the power that he has.
- Analyzes how the theme of revenge is fantastically represented in poe's iconic tale, from the first paragraph, where montresor laments over his woes, to the last statement where he wishes that fortunato would rest in peace.
- Analyzes how edgar allan poe's the cask of amontidillo is a horror tale that contains gothic elements like irony, puns, double entendre, and foreshadowing.
1498 wordsRead More - Cask Of Amontillado Analysisanalytical essayIf you look all of the information from a different standpoint, you would have to consider some of Poe’s other works. As already stated, Poe’s style of writing dealing with madness and death. The many kinds of Edgar Allan Poe’s works involve death, madness, and murder. Knowing this can enable a reader to grasp the tone in his story better. Our main character in "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor can construe as an insane person or the super evil mastermind of it all.
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- Explains that they chose "the cask of amontillado" by edgar allen poe for several reasons. the story is short and easily readable.
- Analyzes how a first-person narrator named montresor tells us about himself and shows us the way his vindictiveness may distort his understanding of the story.
- Analyzes kirszner and mandell's "the cask of amontillado" by edgar allen poe.
- Analyzes poe's style of writing dealing with death, madness, and murder. montresor uses reverse psychology throughout the story as he achieves his goal of revenge.
- Concludes that montresor carries out this unspeakable revenge without batting an eye, without guilt.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how edgar allan poe's "the cask of amontillado" features the classic unreliable narrator, montresor, who personifies wickedness.
- Analyzes how the narrator's use of the word "vow" indicates that the grievance was meaningful in the mind of montresor, allowing the reader to identify with the actions to be revealed throughout the story.
- Analyzes how montresor's internalized thought and reaction to the insult of fortunato suggests that he does not attempt to make amends and instead seeks retribution.
- Analyzes how the dialogue adds dark humor and highlights montresor's withdrawn nature, and reveals other crucial aspects of his character.
- Analyzes how the comments made in exchanges between the narrator and fortunato highlight montresor's inability to be open and honest, show his twisted nature, and demonstrate his intelligence.
- Analyzes how fortunato's disparaging treatment of montresor and his ancestors inspired jealousy.
- Analyzes poe's use of montresor as a vehicle that allows the reader to identify with their own shortcomings.
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