The Amontillado Symbolism
The gothic fiction is being told in first person point of view by Montresor, however, his name not revealed until the end of the story. The setting is in Italy during the carnival season. Montresor begins the story by discussing that Fortunato insulted him multiple times and that he seeks revenge on him. He decides to revenge him by using Fortunato’s weakness for good wine to lure him to his death. While in the midst of the carnival season, Montresor approaches, a drunken Fortunato in a jester costume with a conical cap with bells, that he has believed that he came across Amontillado. Fortunato shows anxiously on conforming if the wine is truly Amontillado. Montresor tells Fortunato that if he is too busy, he will ask Luchesi to taste it. Fortunato claims that Luchesi could not tell Amontillado from other wines and insists that they go to Montresor’s vaults. Montresor told his servants he will not return till
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the next day knowing that they will dismiss themselves soon as he leaves. The two men go into the damp vaults, which are covered with nitre, and cause Fortunato to cough. Montresor insists to bring Fortunato back home, but Fortunato refuses. He accepts different wines from Montresor's vault as the cure to his cough. As the men go deeper into the vaults, dead bodies of Montresor’s family surrounded them. Fortunato makes a hand movement that is a secret sign of the Masons, an exclusive fraternal organization. Montresor does not recognize this hand signal, though he claims that he is a Mason. When Fortunato asks for proof, Montresor shows him his trowel, which deals with stonemason but Fortunato takes it as a joke, and the two men continue in the vault.
The men walk into a crypt, where three walls were covered in bones and the fourth wall the bones were on the ground.
On the fourth wall is a small crypt, where Montresor tells Fortunato that the Amontillado is being stored. Fortunato, still intoxicated, goes toward the back of the recess , where Montresor chains him with a pair of iron staples. Montresor begins to lay stones to wall up the to the crypt. The alcohol wears off and Fortunato moans till Fortunato falls silent by the high tiers. On the last stone, Fortunato laughs and asks to return to the palazzo. Fortunato plea for God in Montresor name then grew silent. Montresor calls out for Fortunato twice with no response from him. Montresor states that his heart feels sick due to the dampness of the catacombs. his actions accompanied only by the jingling of Fortunato’s bells. Montresor place the last stone into the wall and plastered it up. He assemble the bones on the fourth wall. For fifty years, he states, no one has disturbed them. The final line, he states, to let Fortunato to rest in peace in
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the next day knowing that they will dismiss themselves soon as he leaves. The two men go into the damp vaults, which are covered with nitre, and cause Fortunato to cough. Montresor insists to bring Fortunato back home, but Fortunato refuses. He accepts different wines from Montresor's vault as the cure to his cough. As the men go deeper into the vaults, dead bodies of Montresor’s family surrounded them. Fortunato makes a hand movement that is a secret sign of the Masons, an exclusive fraternal organization. Montresor does not recognize this hand signal, though he claims that he is a Mason. When Fortunato asks for proof, Montresor shows him his trowel, which deals with stonemason but Fortunato takes it as a joke, and the two men continue in the vault.
The men walk into a crypt, where three walls were covered in bones and the fourth wall the bones were on the ground.
On the fourth wall is a small crypt, where Montresor tells Fortunato that the Amontillado is being stored. Fortunato, still intoxicated, goes toward the back of the recess , where Montresor chains him with a pair of iron staples. Montresor begins to lay stones to wall up the to the crypt. The alcohol wears off and Fortunato moans till Fortunato falls silent by the high tiers. On the last stone, Fortunato laughs and asks to return to the palazzo. Fortunato plea for God in Montresor name then grew silent. Montresor calls out for Fortunato twice with no response from him. Montresor states that his heart feels sick due to the dampness of the catacombs. his actions accompanied only by the jingling of Fortunato’s bells. Montresor place the last stone into the wall and plastered it up. He assemble the bones on the fourth wall. For fifty years, he states, no one has disturbed them. The final line, he states, to let Fortunato to rest in peace in
Latin.