The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe's Revenge Story
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Characters:
Montresor: He is the protagonist of the story, an intelligent, serious, and very sensitive man. A man a bit negative but who does everything he wants. A man who decides to take revenge for an unfortunate situation that he could not control.
Fortunato: He is a dominant man and always sure of himself. He likes to laugh and make fun of Montresor and that will bring him great problems. Another minor character is Luchresi, who is a wine professional. The character refuses to accompany Montresor to carry out his macabre plans.
Stories:
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Edgar Allan Poe:
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. He went to the orphan because his father abandoned him and her mother died. Edgar went to the University of Virginia but left after a year, and he enlisted in the United States Army in 1827 under an assumed name. Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, but finally he died at 40 years old in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. The cause of his death is unknown.
Summary:
The story The Cask of Amontillado is about one man called Montresor that wants to take revenge on Fortunato, since he has insulted him.
On Carnival night Montresor finds Fortunato very drunk. Montresor treats him same always, but certainly he wants to murder Fortunato. To do that, Montresor invents that he buys a cask of Amontillado to get his attention and manipulates Fortunato to come to the catacombs and prove that it was Amontillado or not.
Once in the catacombs, Montresor in the way, takes to Fortunato some wine to get drunk more. When they arrive at the end of the way, Montresor, to take revenge, locks Fortunato up alive in the catacombs to murder him.