The Worth of Honour

The Worth of Honour One of man’s most valued traits is honour. It takes years for someone to build his own reputation and to gain respect from others. Honour is one of those things that separate us from each other. Everyone has their own degree of honour which took years for them to gain. It is so important that people sometimes go into unclean ways just to restore it. In medieval Japan, samurais, who were soldiers from the upper rank, commit a ritual called “Seppuku” which is a kind of suicide that is done when a samurai had somehow tarnished his honour and brought shame to his family; even in the present, we still have our own ways of restoring our honour. But sometimes we treasured our honour so much; we go into ways that are immoral to get revenge on anyone who had brought shame to us because we think that it is a way of restoring our own honour. In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor who is the man where the story revolves, makes an elaborate plan to kill Fortunato who is his friend because Fortunato has shame him and his honour. In the story Fortunato, has somehow shame Montresor to the point that Montresor vows revenge for it. Montresor plans to kill Fortunato by using his weakness, he told Fortunato that he has a wine which he is unsure of the quality. Fortunato falls into Montresor’s trap. For Montresor this is his way of restoring his own honour, that he need to kill the one who is the reason that he lost the respect of others. Montresor values his own honour too much that he does not care if he even needs to kill his friend just to gain it back. He believes that the respect of others is much more important to him than anything else. Some of us thinks just like Montresor. Every time someone humiliates us, we think of ways of bringing revenge unto them. Even in our modern world, there are cases of honour killing which is when someone kills a member of the family because he or she brings shame to them. One of the victims of this