In Italian Fortunato means fortunate one, this is ironic because Fortunato is very unfortunate in the story because he is being led to his death and is treated like a fool. The setting in which the story takes place shows an ironic aspect. The characters meet at a carnival, where there is suppose to be celebration and happiness all around, but all that we witness from the story is revenge and death (Wood 1). Due to the carnival season the clothing that Fortunato is wearing is very festive and happy. His outfit is full of color and his hat has bells on it, like such of a jester.
Montressor, the stingy and the shady My impression on Montressor is that he is a very stingy and shady person throughout the entire story. He is offended by Fortunato’s insult, and Montressor suddenly has the urge to murder Fortunato for making such insult. Montressor is shady because he used wine to trick Fortunato to go into the wine cellars of the latter’s palazzo, where they wander in the catacombs, which is deep below the ground. Then Montressor used reversed-psychology to lure Fortunato to proceed further down to the catacombs of the palazzo to reach the pipe of Amontillado, which happens to be a rare and valuable wine. Montressor is stingy because he purposely showed Fortunato his family’s coat of arms, “a golden foot crushing a snake whose fangs are embedded in the foot’s heel,” this imply that though the person attacking him and his family may be venomous and dangerous, but they will not get away without being punished severely.
This aroused people to think Poe was a sociopath and strange as a person in real life. The title, “The Cask of Amontillado” has a meaning of its own. The word “cask” is the root word for “casket” which symbolizes Fortunato casket and Amontillado which is the wine he was lured into Montresor’s trap. In this story, Poe is telling the story in first person point of view. He is Montresor, the protagonist of the story who will take revenge on Fortunato, the antagonist.
The words cask and casket have the same root. The relationship between the two represents the means to draw Fortunato down to the catacombs and then on to the bricked casket. Fortunato's passion for good wine leaves him impressionable to flattery, which Montresor provides. Amontillado symbolizes pleasure and greed, and Fortunato is willing to travel through a graveyard to get what he wants. The need for wine betrays him, and the Amontillado signals his downfall.
Because people are making fun of his nose he is able to provide witty humor that makes the book become a comedy. Valvert says “Ah…your nose…hem!...Your nose is…rather large!” “Rather” “Oh well” “Is that all” “Well of course.”(35-36 Act 1) But Cyrano does not leave it like this he replies by insulting Valvert and ultimately making him angry by telling him all the better insults that he could have had. He threw it right back in his face by making it a joke. Throughout the story comedy like this occurs and that is why I believe it is a
Who do you consider is most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet all ends in a terrible tragedy, however there has to be someone to blame for this, but who? I strongly believe that Friar Lawrence is responsible for the tragedy. The main reasons why I think he is to blame is because he married Romeo and Juliet without anyone’s permission; he also helped them to have a secret night together; gave Juliet a dangerous potion; faked her funeral breaking the hearts of her family and he continued abusing the use of confession throughout the play. The most disgraceful thing is that he is a man of god and he committed all of these horrendous sins!
The sailors see skulls of dead men that have fallen for the siren’s song. Even though the men see it is a trick and can tell that they will die, they can’t bear to ignore the melodic tune and are forced to be sucked into the trap. In this sense, the author could be relating the deception and confusion of the sirens to everyday life situations. We see that there are consequences and that we shouldn’t do certain things, yet we still continue to fall into the trap of our own decisions. Some things seem so valuable and so intriguing that we want them, but a lot of the time they end up hurting us.
As an audience, we are already aware of this before Hannah makes the discovery, which increases our sense of disgust at his deceitfulness. Stoppard uses stage directions to ironically comment on this through ‘Bernard looks round vaguely…then recovers himself and turns on the Nightingale bonhomie’. The idea that he can ‘turn on’ the charm signifies him as dislikeable character, particularly when combined with his significantly named alias of ‘Mr Peacock’ which aptly suggests he is both arrogant and flamboyant. Hannah on the other hand is presented as the complete opposite. Her name, which is a palindrome, suggests logicality and pattern and this can be applied to her predictable and scientific nature.
An example of his tragic flaw is the trust he puts in Cassius. This backfires as Cassius tricks him into killing Caesar for selfish reasons. Another example of his naïve attitude is allowing Mark Antony to give a eulogy speech at Caesar’s funeral. This, it once again backfires and Mark Antony ends up turning the plebeians against him. This is shown when Mark Antony uses reverse psychology by stating “But Brutus is an honorable man.” His tragic flaw shapes and foreshadows his downfall.
Conclusion A. Forunato is Buried Alive Betrayal and Revenge The cask of Amontillado is set during the carnival season in an anonymous city somewhere in the Mediterranean region of Europe. The story recounts the last meeting between two aristocratic gentlemen, the narrator Montresor and the wine connoisseur Fortunato. Themes of betrayal and revenge clearly inform “The Cask of Amontillado,” but the persuasive irony of Montresor’s narration complicates attempts to understand his motives and other conflicts at the heart of the tale. At the same time, layers of irony also contribute to the story’s tone of horror. Because of Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is told by a first person narrator, a man named Montresor, we cannot be sure that what the narrator tells us is true.