Cask Of Amontillado Montresor Justified Analysis

In my opinion, in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor’s actions cannot be justified in any way, first of all Montresor deceived Fortunato and rather than dueling the man or taking matters into the laws hands, he did not even give Fortunato a chance to contest. Nothing can truly ever justify intentional murder, and surely this is also true of Montresor’s actions in "The Cask of Amontillado." Readers are never explicitly told what “insult” Fortunato has given to Montresor to cause him to respond in such a horrendous way. We as readers can only make the assumption that it was a major offense of some sort, conceivably committed at a far earlier time all we are told is that, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne