“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, is a short-story in which the main character Montressor who is also a wine merchant has concocted this enormous scheme to extract revenge on Fortunato for wronging him. Montressor openly admits in the beginning of the story and this sets the basis of the plot or the main problem that existed in “The Cask of Amontillado”. Some of the other characters that exist in the story is Montressor’s servants; whom he sends away to the carnival purposely. Then there is Fortunato, Montressor’s ex-friend or enemy who is also a wine merchant and another character that was mentioned is Luchesi who is another wine merchant that Fortunato and Montressor know.
Montressor can be described as devious becuase uses the one thing that he knows Fortunato can not deny, which is wine and uses it as bait to…show more content… Montressor can be described as a protagonist to some because if he really was wronged badly by Fortunato then him killing Fortunato at the end can be justified and maybe even thought of as some sort of poetic justice. But if Montressor was not really mistreated by Fortunato then the act of Montressor murdering Fortunato can be described as evil, and devilish behavior. But you could come to the conclusion that Montressor is a cold-blooded murderer because when he is in the caves on the other walls there also exist other bones which could believe that Montressor has killed other people or at least knows about four other murders that exist. ANother generalization that can be made is that at the end when fortunato says “In pace requiescat!” which is latin for rest in peace that he finally has come to terms that he going to die because before it could be said that Fortunato thought Montressor was joking when he chained to the
