Fortunato In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

Characteristics of Fortunato “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool”-William Shakespeare. In the story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the main characters named Fortunato, was brutally buried alive by Montresor. Fortunato allows this because of his clumsiness. Fortunato makes it easy on Montresor to kill him because of his clumsiness, insensibility, and rash decisions. In the story, Montresor states that Fortunato “...accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much-” (1) Fortunato’s pure clumsiness was surely to be accounted for one of the reasons he let himself be murdered. The fact that he was drunk at a carnival in Italy, also shows that he has no self respect for