Who Is The Narrator In The Cask Of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story that was written by Allan Poe. It was first published in 1846 November. The short story is about a man who plots to carry out some revenge to another friend who is considered to be his friend. The story has two main characters, Montressor, the protagonist and the Fortunato who is an antagonist. According to the story, Montresor has been insulted by Fortunato and he decides that he had to carry out some revenge as a way of punishing him. He, therefore, makes a plot of luring Fortunato with a cask. The story has been set up in an evening in a city that has not been named. The story is directed to an unknown audience though on the part of Montresor, we can guess that he is addressing some who knows his soul, probably a pastor. The story is narrated by Montresor from the first person of View and this has given our story credibility (Mar& Keith, 183). However, I consider the narrator of the story as an unreliable person because has in the story he has tried to justify a murder in prior to the reader. He also exaggerates the story when he talks about the thousand injuries of Fortunato. In the story, the
At the beginning, we get to know that Montresor has planned revenge to Fortunato because of an implicated insult that has not even been named for us. This has been used as a symbol that symbolizes the social conflicts, between the upper class and the lower class. The Upper-class wanted to exact revenge to the rising middle-class individuals who possibly would bring down them. They were planning to pre4vent the middle class from rising. As it is evident in the story; there are two tasks that Montresor is planning to accomplish. He states that “ I must not only punish but punish with impunity”. The statements clearly indicate that, although Montresor was the one who was exacting revenge, he was the one who had wrong (Foy & William,