Montresor Downfall

In the Roman language, the meaning of Montresor is “to show fate’’. In the opening of the story, Montresor states why he desires Fortunato downfall. “The Cask of Amontillado’’, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which a man named Montresor seeks revenge on a well respected and feared men for insulting his family name and hurting him verbally countless of times. Montresor honors his family’s name, motto, and coat of arm, these things are vast significance in the story of “The Cask of Amontillado’’. The Montresors were a rich and enormous family. The Montresor’s name is very important and honorable to them and much more. An example would be when Fortunato had made fun of the name, Montresor not only vowed for revenge but to punish with impunity. Montresor had never gone so far to physically hurt Fortunato when he had injured him countless of times. “[The] thousand of injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge’’(1). As Montresor said in the story, Fortunato is a well respected and scary man who sees
The Montresor’s coat of arms is a golden foot crushing a snake which has its fangs embedded into the heel of the foot. The coat of arm shows why Montresor is unforgiving to getting revenge on Fortunato. A human foot is crushing a snake that has just bitten the foot. Evidently, Montresor considers Fortunato to be the snake, and Montresor is the foot that is soon to crush and kill him. The coat of arm also foreshadows for what will happen to Fortunato. It shows us that revenge is in Montresor’s blood. The coat of arm highlight Montresor character proving that he’s unstable. The coat of arm also shows that even though the foot had crushed the snake the teeth marks will always be on the human foot. Montresor, even though successful in killing Fortunato, will be troubled by the killing for years afterward. “My heart grew sick—on account