Cask of Amontillado Response Paper
Reginald Harris
Professor Pentecost
Comp II- 1302
17 February 2014
Cask of Amontillado Response
I first read the short story, Cask of Amontillado, which was written by Edgar Allen Poe my senior year in high school. We discussed the title as a class when we discovered that "Amontillado" was an alcoholic beverage and that "cask" could 've been short for casket. So as we put it all together we couldn 't help but wonder why would any man write a story about a casket of wine. In order to find out why this title is what it is, there was no choice but to start analyzing the text.
This short story is based upon two main characters, "Montresor" the narrator and, "Fortunado" the drunkard connoisseur. By the"tight-fitting parti-stripped dress" costume that Fortunado has on, we can tell that the setting is during the carnival season in what could seen to be in the city of Italy. Once we move into the story, in the first sentence we notice that this could most likely revolve around revenge. I also discovered that Fortunado and Montresor could be in between competition with each other. When Montresor says at the beginning,"...but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." he is basically showing that maybe Fortunado may have taken this competition thing past the level of given extent. He also states, "I 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." To me it seems all the same in showing the deep and dark thoughts of Montresor towards Fortunado and that he should know his fate and that the task of revenge shall be cast towards him.
As we move on throughout this story I can see that Fortunado is so intoxicated that he was hanging on Montresor 's arm while he is having a conversation about a supporting character known by the name of Luchresi who supposedly cant "tell Amontillado from Sherry".
Professor Pentecost
Comp II- 1302
17 February 2014
Cask of Amontillado Response
I first read the short story, Cask of Amontillado, which was written by Edgar Allen Poe my senior year in high school. We discussed the title as a class when we discovered that "Amontillado" was an alcoholic beverage and that "cask" could 've been short for casket. So as we put it all together we couldn 't help but wonder why would any man write a story about a casket of wine. In order to find out why this title is what it is, there was no choice but to start analyzing the text.
This short story is based upon two main characters, "Montresor" the narrator and, "Fortunado" the drunkard connoisseur. By the"tight-fitting parti-stripped dress" costume that Fortunado has on, we can tell that the setting is during the carnival season in what could seen to be in the city of Italy. Once we move into the story, in the first sentence we notice that this could most likely revolve around revenge. I also discovered that Fortunado and Montresor could be in between competition with each other. When Montresor says at the beginning,"...but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." he is basically showing that maybe Fortunado may have taken this competition thing past the level of given extent. He also states, "I 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." To me it seems all the same in showing the deep and dark thoughts of Montresor towards Fortunado and that he should know his fate and that the task of revenge shall be cast towards him.
As we move on throughout this story I can see that Fortunado is so intoxicated that he was hanging on Montresor 's arm while he is having a conversation about a supporting character known by the name of Luchresi who supposedly cant "tell Amontillado from Sherry".
Cited: Allen Poe, Edgar. “The Cask of Amontillado.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Spencer Richard-Jones, J. Paul Hunter, and Kelly J. Mays. 11th ed. New York: Norton, 2013. 165-171. Print.