Sunday, July 26, 2009

Does Montresor get his revenge in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Montresor
has been injured by Fortunato many
times.  It is the insult that makes Montresor decide that
Fortunato needs to
die. 

THE thousand injuries of

Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.
You,
who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that
gave utterance to a
threat. At length I would be avenged€¦


bydetails the
plans of a man who has been
pushed to the edge of no return. Montresor will inflict his
revenge; and in
doing so will not be punished himself.  This is a man who covers all of his

bases.  He has planned everything even to the time of the murder which is during the
carnival
season--the madness of the time will assure that there are no
witnesses.


Obviously, Montresor has studied Fortunato so
that he could find his weaknesses and be
able to lure him down into the
catacombs.  Fortunatoswill not allow him to let Montresor use
Luchesi
to...

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