amontillado
“Amontillado” book questions pg.181 #1-12
1. Montresor admits that “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge,” was the reason that motivated him to commit that crime.
2. According to Montresor, he says that the perfect crime “ must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”
3. Montresor says that Fortunato “…had a weak point - this Fortunato – although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared.”
4. Montresor lures Fortunato farther and farther into the catacombs by giving him the curiosity of wanting to see the pipe of amontillado.
5. Montresor is retelling the story of how he got his revenge on Fortunato by chaining him to a wall in a small room in his cellar, then laying a brick wall to seal Fortunato in. At the end of the story, Montresor states that the wall has remained undisturbed for the past century, meaning no one has ever found out that Fortunato is still behind the wall after all the years.
6. The persona that Poe has created for Montresor seeks revenage and is very brutal cause of what people have done to him. Poe chose Montresor for his story because when he published the story in 1846 Poe was enduring vicious insults from critics but also with his foster father.
7. A character trait in Fortunato that makes him fall prey to Montresor was that he’s drunk and easily persuaded by people.
8. I think that when Montresor says, ”In pace requiescat” he means rest in peace and that his revenge is complete and can know lay to rest his dispute with this enemy.
9. Montresor is talking to Fortunato fifty years after the murder to show that even though Fortunato thought that Montresor was going to get caught he didn’t.
10. “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily
1. Montresor admits that “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge,” was the reason that motivated him to commit that crime.
2. According to Montresor, he says that the perfect crime “ must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”
3. Montresor says that Fortunato “…had a weak point - this Fortunato – although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared.”
4. Montresor lures Fortunato farther and farther into the catacombs by giving him the curiosity of wanting to see the pipe of amontillado.
5. Montresor is retelling the story of how he got his revenge on Fortunato by chaining him to a wall in a small room in his cellar, then laying a brick wall to seal Fortunato in. At the end of the story, Montresor states that the wall has remained undisturbed for the past century, meaning no one has ever found out that Fortunato is still behind the wall after all the years.
6. The persona that Poe has created for Montresor seeks revenage and is very brutal cause of what people have done to him. Poe chose Montresor for his story because when he published the story in 1846 Poe was enduring vicious insults from critics but also with his foster father.
7. A character trait in Fortunato that makes him fall prey to Montresor was that he’s drunk and easily persuaded by people.
8. I think that when Montresor says, ”In pace requiescat” he means rest in peace and that his revenge is complete and can know lay to rest his dispute with this enemy.
9. Montresor is talking to Fortunato fifty years after the murder to show that even though Fortunato thought that Montresor was going to get caught he didn’t.
10. “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily