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    Sean Irvin English 102-1AC College Composition II Prof. Ronald Strothers May 14‚ 2001 Essay 1 I think that "The Cask Of Amontillado" is believable because it seems like Montresor is fed up with Fortunato. Poe also leads us to believe that Fortunato is foolish enough to follow Montresor into the dark catacombs to get to the amontillado that he is an expert on. The story is a dark tale of a presumably insane man who suffers from‚ according to him‚ "the thousand injuries of Fortunato I

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    “ The cask of Amontillado” was written by Edgar Allan Poe. In this short story‚ the main characters are Fortunato and Montressor. Fortunato is a man that loves to drink wine and had offended Montressor many times. Montressor thinks he needs to take revenge into his own hands and comes up with an evil plan. The setting takes place long ago in the catacombs of Rome. The plot happens when Montressor sees that Forunato is very drunk. Montessor tells Forunato that he knows where a large pipe of Amontillado

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    Nick Groft English P.3 “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story that is exhilarating and keeps you as the reader on the edge of your seat. As a carnival is going on‚ Montresor is plotting revenge against the man who insulted him for the last time named Fortunato. During the middle of the carnival‚ Montresor takes the drunken Fortunato to the catacombs and little does Fortunato know what is going to happen. Fortunato is literally walking to his death and he has no idea except for Montresor. Edgar Allen

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    Hmm. That’s odd. The Cask of Amontillado[dem1] The main character in "The Cask of Amontillado[dem2] " by Edgar Allan Poe‚ is Montresor. This deviant yet cunning character is set on getting revenge on his acquaintance‚ Fortunato‚ by sealing him in his family catacomb. The motive behind this idea is "disrespect." Montresor feels as if Fortunato "disrespected" him[dem3] . It is an excuse that Montresor uses to rationalize his true motive of jealousy. Montresor uses charm‚ calculation

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    of them‚ there was irony and which means "An incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs." I chose to write about The Cask of Amontillado‚ by Edgar Allen Poe. In the story The Cask of Amontillado‚ Poe uses a lot of irony with his characters right from the beginning of the story. One of his main characters is named fortunato‚ but in the end‚ he is the least fortunate person in the story‚ because he is killed by Montresor. Poe also uses a lot of irony in his writing when

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    Foreshadowing the Fate in “The Cask of Amontillado” In “Cask of Amontillado‚” Edgar Allan Poe presents a murderous tale of revenge revealed as the confession of a man who murdered another man over fifty years ago because of an “insult.” During a carnival festival‚ the murderer led his companion to the catacombs where he buried the man alive. The charter of Montresor lures his victim‚ Fortunato with the promise of a fine sherry‚ amontillado. As Poe’s character of Montresor guides the wine connoisseur

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    Irony Analysis of “The Cask of Amontillado” In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the main character named Montresor is set out for revenge. Montresor’s only concern is to get revenge on the man who has wronged him named Fortuanto. Montresor never states why Fortunato deserves to be punished. The only statement Montresor makes is that Fortunato “causes him a thousand injuries” until “venturing upon insult.” (Poe‚ Online) Montresor plans to take out his revenge by burying Fortunato alive

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    While reading the story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe shows irony throughout the story. Poe shows it by the main character and even though the costumes that the character are wearing. Fortunato’s is one of the main characters and Poe shows irony through his name because in Italian his name stands for good fortune and luck. And it ironic because in the story Poe has Fortunato going for his own death. And also because of the fact since he is supposed to be the lucky one he goes

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    The Cask Of Amontillado The story “The Cask Of Amontillado” which is written by Edgar Allan Poe is about a murder and revenge. The story is told in first person so we don’t  learn the name until the end. The protagonist ( Montresor ) is seeking for a revenge from the antagonist ( Fortunato ) who has insulted him. These two are very close friends and at the end of the story the Montresor leaves Fortunato to die in a vault. At the very end‚ Montresor tells us that the whole affair happened fifty

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    Cask of Amontillado The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him‚ and Fortunato has insulted him. The narrator decides to revenge to him. He meets Fortunato‚ and he is already very drunk. The narrator mentions he’s found a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado. Fortunato doubt that the wine is real and he want to check. So he and the narrator go to the catacomb. The narrator leads Fortunato deeper and deeper into the catacomb‚ getting him drunker and drunker along the way

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