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The Cask Of Amontllado - Online Term Paper

The Cask Of Amontllado

"" by Edgar Allan Poe
This is very well-thought out story of revenge involving two enemies, in which a man, Montresor elaborately plans the demise of his foe Fortunato. Montresor chooses the the timing to seek his revenge perfectly. It is the time of the carnival (Mardi Gras). The carnival in itself creates a great diversion. It's a particularly haphazard and crazy time. Fortunato is quite drunk, and much too trusting of Montresor. He even throws a mask and cloak over Montresor, making their departure from the carnival even less conspicuous.
Montresor subtly plays Fortunato's ego in order to convince him to leave the carnival and sample some Amontllado that he had supposedly just ...

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not be returning until morning. He knew that during this time of merriment the servants would disappear as soon as he turned his back. He lures Fortunato deeper and deeper into the family catacombs where the cask of amontillado was supposedly stored. Fortunato had a cold in the catacombs' mold aggravated his cough. Montresor kept offering Fortunato the chance to turn around and go back, but he also kept mentioning Luchresi's name.
Once Montresor lures Fortunato to the deepest part of the catacombs, he shackles Fortunato to the walls of a small chamber. Montresor pushes aside a pile of bones that had concealed stones and mortar. He proceeds, brick by brick, to seal Fortunato in the chamber. To Montresor's disappointment, Fortunato actually ends up coughing himself to death before the last stone was in place. Montresor must have been terribly upset, for he had planned out every detail of this murder, and I'm sure he was counting on Fortunato's slow and painful death while ...

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Added: 3/12/2007 02:26:14 PM
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