The Cask To The Amontillado Analysis

Down deep into the underground catacombs in Italy is where the poor soul of Fortunato took his last breath. In “The cask to the Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe the death Fortunato and Montresor’s vengeance of him can be traced back to the decisions of Fortunato. Fortunato has an addiction to drinking wine, he is overconfident and large ego about himself and easily conceivable personality did lead him to his death. He needed to fix these points in his life because if he did, then who would not have been in dead in the catacombs under Italy.

Fortunato is a man who has a high self confidence and a very large ego. “ he prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine” : Fortunato was a man who knew a lot about wine. There was a man who knew more about it and Fortunato did not like that (pg 426). Luchi who is also

there was one very big trick that basically set up the rest of the story. This trick was when Contractor tricked Fortunato into going down to the catacombs. Fortunato is easily deceived because when put in a position that threatens his ego he breaks and is deceived to think that he is going down to the catacombs to get the Amontillado but instead is going down there to be killed. On page 47 Fortunato is getting tricked to go to the catacombs. One thing Montresor says he has that he has the Amontillado, but during the season of the festival, Amontillado is too expensive and way to hard to get by everyone. So Fortunato does not use his conscience and lets his guard down and this part leads to him dieing in the catacombs underground. Another part where he is deceived is when Montresor wants Fortunato to climb over the wall so he can trap him on the other side and have him stay there til his death: “Pass your hand … over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre” (pg 431). If Fortunato would have had a better conscience and would have know that what was happening was wrong he would be alive