One instance of verbal irony can be pulled from both the protagonist and the antagonist's name. Fortunato's name in Italian meaning lucky or fortunate, and compared to Montresor he is. Especially when Montresor mentions that "You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was." (Poe 181) leading us to believe that his family used to be just as prominent as Fortunato’s some time ago. This could have given rise to insult
The disposition of Montresor's revenge in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" is controversial. Interpreters hold differing opinions upon various pertinent inquiries. Is Montresor's revenge an achievement or a lack of success? Is Montresor guilty for the eradication of Fortunato? What is Montresor's killing purpose and Fortunato's slander? The doubtfulness of Montresor's revenge has given rise to many contrasting replies to these inquiries; however, the tales proof and certain interpreters'
reality and fiction, appearing to be stricken with insanity. Perhaps it is inexperience which makes them only able to see events in a naive light. Edgar Allen Poe’s character Montresor in The Cask of Amontillado is a prime example of an unreliable narrator, as is J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. However, it can be difficult to distinguish between what is a reliable narrator, and what is not. An unreliable narrator is one who cannot be trusted to tell the story
both of them contain themes of darkness, horror, fear, despair, and other haunting themes. For example, Poe takes different motifs from each story and redraws them several times to create a point. In “The Cast of Amontillado”, the main character Montresor constantly stresses the dampness in the cellar as detrimental to Fortunato’s health and nags at him to turn back having no intention to ever do so. Likewise, in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the unnamed narrator tells the reader over and over, “I loved
and latter commemoration of death, in “The Masque of the Red Death” is romanticized by displaying a party while the Red Death stalks the guest within Prince Prospero’s castle walls. A similar occurrence happens in “The Casque of Amontillado” when Montresor describes the casque of his unique alcoholic beverage from which the title is named, Amontillado, lightens the mood along with their drunken moods of expressing their natures towards one another. These elements of indication of the human nature can