Fortunato's Pride

While pride has the possibility to be beneficial, it also demonstrated through much humility that it has the ability to be detrimental. Where there is pride that comes from being pleased by hardwork that lead to achievement, there is also pride that originates from
In Edgar Allen Poe’s work of “The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe gives an account of a man by the name of Montresor, a clever and vengeful man, who seeks lethal retribution against his acquaintance Fortunato for causing him many injuries by using Fortunato’s pride in his knowledge of wine against Fortunato, while E. M. Forster depicts while how a young boy, the protagonist of the short story “The Celestial Omnibus”, attempts to share his newfound comprehension of literature with Mr. Bons, someone the boy holds high in
Inevitably, Mr. Bons’s and Fortunato’s pride leads to their downfall. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Celestial Omnibus” by E. M. Forster both convey that pride in knowledge causes potentially fatal mistakes.
Both of the authors, Forster and Poe, utilize symbolism to signify Fortunato’s and Mr. Bons’s excessive pride. Edgar Poe is able to convey Fortunato’s hubristic pride in wine by symbolizing his down in the title of the story, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Montresor, in an attempt to lure Fortunato to his palazzo, ‘requests’ for Fortunato’s consultation in tasting what he has “received a [cask] of what passes for Amontillado” (Poe 1). Poe employs the use of a cask, instead of another vessel to store wine, because it allows for the title to take on a double- meaning, symbolising both Fortunato’s extreme love and knowledge of wine lead to his death. Fortunato, continually portrayed as a drunk by Montresor, continually prides himself on the connoisseurship of wine (Poe 1). Not only is Fortunato obsessed with wine, prides himself greatly on his knowledge of it. Poe’s title of the story not only