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. Montressor and Fortunato reached a niche, Montressor informed Fortunato that the pipe of Amontillado is inside, and since Fortunato is already drunk he wandered in unknowingly that it is a trap which will cost him his very own life. Then Montressor quickly chained Fortunato to the wall and started to seal the niche with bricks. Fortunato begged for mercy, but Montressor refused to comply, and enjoyed every bit of wailing Fortunato made. Though it has been fifty years since he walled Fortunato alive in the catacombs, but he has yet to be caught murdering his friend on the search for the imaginary pipe of Amontillado, which Fortunato believed that it actually
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!
Fortuonado may also be evil too, as he plans on taking all the credit of finding this amazing cask of wine which is located in the catacombs of the city. What he doesn’t know though, is that his once friend, montresor is planning to kill him. This shows the evil within the two characters, as one is planning on basically stealing fame and fortune from another, and the other is trying to secretly kill the other. But are humans innately evil? No I would not go to that extent.
For example when he convinces Cassio to drink even though Cassio doesn’t want to, when he convinces Emilia to steal the handkerchief from Desdemona even though she doesn’t want to. • When Brabantio goes to the Duke to tell about Othello having “stolen” his daughter we see how he feels as though he is in control of the situation and he appears to be powerful when the he tells the Duke what happened and the Duke replies “Whoe’er he be that in this foul proceeding hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself and you of her, the bloody book of law you shall yourself read in the bitter letter after your own sense, yea, though our proper son stood in your action” However, once the Duke hears that its Othello, Brabantio loses all the power that he appeared to have in this scene. • The Duke is in a position of power as he calls the shots as to what happens with Othello. He is able to protect Othello from Brabantios accusations because he is in a position of authority. • In Act 2 Scene 3, after the brawl has happened between Cassio, Roderigo and Montano, Iago is put in a position of power when he is asked to speak about what happened to cause this brawl, he pretends as though it hurts him to tell of what Cassio did but in reality we know that he is lying and is manipulating Othello.
Throughout the story, Montresor tries to convince the reader that Fortunato is a cruel drunk, and his own plans for murder are just. The tale begins with Montresor saying, "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge…” (157). Montresor is basically plotting his revenge and already trying to convince the reader of the gravity of Fotrunato’s many wrong doings, through a blatant exaggeration. The reader can assume that Montresor’s
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.
Analysis of “The cask of Amontillado” Could you ever imagine killing someone and in that case: what would be the motive behind it? Maybe you would answer that you would not, but what if your supressed feelings were strong enough to drive you so insane that you wanted someone dead? After all we are just human with sense of justice, who can only take just so much. This is dealt with in the horror short story “Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe's and first published in 1846, where the main character, Montresor, builds Fortunato into a wall in order to to take revenge on him, because he feels insulted by him. The first person narrator, Montresor, is very unreliable, because he tries to make us perceive Fortunato and the killing of him in a certain way, as he does not want us the sympathize with him.
Ultimately, due to his intoxication, Cassio stabs Montano, and is stripped of his position by Othello. “And Cassio following him with determined sword to execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman steps in to Cassio and entreats his pause, Myself the crying fellow did pursue, Lest by his clamor—as it so fell out—“ (Act II Sc 3 ll 190-194) Iago purposely led Cassio down the path of destruction, and that is an action the devil would perform. Iago is presenting the story in the way where it would make Cassio seem bad. Iago has no real reason to perform these devil-like actions, the only reason he is doing this is merely out of pure
Laura Niemi Dr. Tait ENG 450 21 October, 2012 Othello The analysis of this play doesn’t begin with Othello, but it does start with the fact that Iago is the evil person portrayed here. He plays on Othello’s thoughts and emotions which makes Othello absolutely insane. He uses the passion that Roderigo has for Desdemona as a dagger to play on his unending nerves. He also uses Cassio’s character of love as well as drink against the lieutenant, along with Desdemona’s chastity against her. His plan of action was almost complete if he was able to murder Cassio.