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    The document summarizes a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado'. It describes how Montresor lures his victim Fortunato into the catacombs with wine and bricks him into the wall to die as revenge for past insults, while Fortunato is unaware of Montresor's true intentions.

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    The document summarizes a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado'. It describes how Montresor lures his victim Fortunato into the catacombs with wine and bricks him into the wall to die as revenge for past insults, while Fortunato is unaware of Montresor's true intentions.

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    The document summarizes a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado'. It describes how Montresor lures his victim Fortunato into the catacombs with wine and bricks him into the wall to die as revenge for past insults, while Fortunato is unaware of Montresor's true intentions.

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    Fortunato is dressed like a court jester or clown and he is, in fact, a fool who

    The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but falls into Montresor's trap. The clothing makes the man in this story.
    when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." Obviously, Fortunato Fortunato is fooled by Montresor, but it is also partly Fortunato's own foolish
    hasn't harmed Montresor a full 1,000 times. the line makes me less ego that leads him into peril, as he feels competitive with Luchresi and
    sympathetic because I can't imagine Fortunato has done anything so wants to present himself as the better man

    terrible as to deserve a brutal killing.

    A Priest maybe while he is on his deathbed to cleanse his soul before


    he dies.

    Even if a victim gets revenge on the person who wronged him/her,


    there's no complete revenge if the victim is soured by the
    event/poisoned by the pursuit of revenge

    First, he dangles a rare treat, the Amontillado,


    before Fortunato, who is a known wine
    connoisseur. Second, he nds Fortunato on a party
    night when he's already a bit drunk and his
    defenses are down. Third, he continues to ply
    Fortunato doesn't know that Montresor was going to Fortunato with alcohol to further blur his
    kill him, the closest people to you can be your biggest judgment.
    enemy. He knows his weaknesses. Pretty Little Liars
    because A always has the upperhand.

    He told them he would be gone all night and


    ordered them to stay in the house instead of
    going to the city-wide party
    Montresor is the classic unreliable narrator. We should not fully
    Enough," [Fortunato] said. "The cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill believe everything he says, as he is clearly mentally deranged. He's
    me. I shall not die of a cough." 2. Montresor has brought a trowel a murderer who never gives us a full or satisfying reason for the
    with him to the catacombs, which he jokingly shows to Fortunato, murder.
    who is too thick to ask questions.

    When the two men are drinking the Medoc, Fortunato says, "I 1. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.
    drink...to the buried that repose around us." Then, Montresor says, 2. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on,
    "And I to your long life." This is ironic because Montresor intends for and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness
    just the opposite to be true. of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.

    When Montresor offers the Medoc wine to Fortunato, what is the


    reason he gives for wanting the other man to drink? What is the real Whatever he did it wouldn't be as bad shown that what Montresor did
    reason? Why does Montresor also have a drink?

    It's most likely a combination of the dampness of the tunnels and the
    nitre, or potassium nitrate, in the air. He does not feel sick about
    what he's done to Fortunato

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