Montresor Revenge

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” has an overbearing theme of spiteful, cunning revenge. Throughout the majority of the short story, the Narrator and Protagonist’s dialogue, tone, and actions all do their part in showing just how much sadistic pleasure he takes in enacting his sweet, succulent revenge. The entirety of the story is laced with this kind of vengeful, sinister dialogue, and it makes for an interesting and entertaining read.
This whole story revolves around one Montresor, a man out for the blood of his “friend” Fortunato. With reasons too numerous to be named individually, Montresor feels he’s found justification to murder his rival Fortunato after a particularly rude insult. This is a constant, foreboding image brought up repeatedly by Sir Montresor. “I continued, as was my in to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my to smile now was at the thought of his immolation.” (Poe 1)
There’s genuine sadism in him as he carefully builds the tomb for his nemesis, slowly, brick by brick. His drunken comrade, seduced by the allure of fine wine, slowly realizes the horror of the situation, too late to do anything for himself aside from beg, only to be taunted in return by Montresor. "’For the love of God, Montresor!’ ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘for the love of God!’” (Poe 1) His vengeance is complete, as he taunts his prey one last time before bidding this man, and his life, adeu.
Throughout ALL of The Cask of Amontillado, deceitful vengeance is a central focus. The entire plot revolves around Montresor’s clever and wicked plot to murder his arch nemesis Fortunato, and the effort he goes through to do his dark deed. It shows intelligent sadism brought about by a need for retribution, a need for “justice,” plain good old fashioned revenge. From the dialogue to the character, the entire story is raw