Amontillado Essay

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The Cask of Amontillado Point of View: The point of view would be a first person point of view, told by the narrator. Characters: Montresor would be one of the major characters; he is a cold ruthless character, unsympathetic and a liar. I would consider him to be a round/static character round because he is well introduced not in the beginning of the story but throughout the whole story showing how much of a liar and how determined he is to seek his revenge. He would be a static character because he goes through no change through the story but only continues to reveal how much of an evil person he really is. He does not have an epiphany. “The noise lasted several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labor and sat down upon the bones” this shows how much of a cold ruthless person Montresor really is by taking satisfaction out of the cry’s and struggles of Fortunato. Fortunato would be the only other character in the story, his name which could mean fortunate, or lucky is a round/dynamic character the narrator describes him as a man to be respected and even feared was also a man who took much pride in his taste of wines, he would be a dynamic character because his attitude changes from the good vibes he gives out when he first sees Montresor at the carnival to fear for his life when Montresor is stacking up the bricks “not the cries of a drunk man” which means he was sober at the time he had begun trapping him in the niche. Fortunato is an addict as all he thinks about throughout the beginning of the play is the amontillado. Fortunato goes through an epiphany when Montresor begins to stack the building stones to keep him in the niche, “I stacked the second tier, third fourth; and then I head the furious vibrations of the chains” realizing that Montresor didn’t need the help of him to distinguish weather or not
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