How Does Montresor Characterize In The Cask Of Amontillado

The Use of Characterization in “The Cask of Amontillado” In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author uses characterization to help communicate how fatal pridefulness can be by making each character dangerously prideful in completely different ways. In this tale, there is Montresor, a mentally ill but intelligent and hateful man, who feels threatened by Fortunato, a successful, respected, and quite gullible man. Tricky Montresor then leads oblivious Fortunato into the deepest recesses of his family’s catacombs in search of great wine. Fortunato is taken into a trap in which Montresor ties him up in chains and closes him up with brick and mortar. At last, Montresor sets fire to the closed off room in which unknowing Fortunato is left for dead.
Montresor’s pride guides him to have the need to punish any who should insult him, especially a fool like Fortunato. Later, Montresor insists upon Fortunato going back to his palazzo because, as he says to Fortunato, “ ‘your health is precious’ ” and “ ‘you are rich, respected, admired’ ” (Poe, 3), however, Fortunato insists on going on. Montresor uses his intelligence to trick this stupid man. On the other hand, Montresor claims, “ the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk” (Poe,1). This makes it seem that Montresor is recognizing that he did not think of the risk involved in the punishment he planned, but this could also show his pride because he means to set Fortunato free of consequence by ending his