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The incentives that the narrator named Montresor had to plot revenge against Fortunato were not justified. Montresor only insinuated through a vague description that Fortunato had “hurt him a thousand times and he suffered quietly, until he laughed at the Montresor name”. This was stated in the first few paragraphs of the story. Montresor was able to stay vague of the pain Fortunato had caused him and not provided detail due to the fact that he played the first-person narrator. This can provide heavy bias and can be seen as an unreliable source. Montresor yearning for revengeance is not warranted and can have easily been dramatized in order to seem justified in the eyes of the reader. This was easily due to his first person narrative which …show more content…

The depths the narrator went in order to deem what he did to Fortunato as right as well as play the role of the victim were extreme. This can be seen when he gave no reason for the readers to blame him yet, only provided the blame on the horrid insults and actions of Fortunato. This was only achievable through playing the role of the narrator. This along with the fact that his objective to persuade Fortunato into getting very drunk with the further end goal of thinking he is being lead to a pipe (barrel) of Amontillado can solidified how unreliable Montresor and other first-person narrators can be. The true aim of Montresor was to get Fortunato very drunk to the point that his conscious state was altered and he would be unable to realize what was going on and try to stop Montresor from his plan of revenge. Though Montresor made it seem valid through his eyes and in the eyes of the reader by allowing it to seem as if it was Fortunato idea to go deeper and deeper into the catacomb and that he was coughing himself and not because of something that Montresor had provided him with. This was justified through the lines that Montresor said of “no, my friend, no. I can see that you are not well and the vaults are cold and wet.” This to which

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