Montresor College Essays Samples For Students

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Cask of Amontillado, is a confession of a murder that occurred 50 years prior, whereby the narrator was never caught or tried despite his wrongdoing. It tells of one man’s hatred against an unsuspecting individual, whom the narrator has been plotting to kill because of alleged insults the individual made towards him (Baraban 47). All throughout the story, it was never revealed what these remarks were, but which apparently wounded the narrator’s ego so much that he wanted to exact vengeance on the person. Betrayal is also a central theme in the story ...

English

Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as a writer who was seriously influenced by neo-Gothic interests. A great American writer, Poe was attracted and influenced by the neo-Gothic writers much before his time because of which, most of his work is on horror. Poe was also witness to a period of uncertainty in society as deceit, murder for gain, revenge and arson was quite common. While courts played an important role in trying to curb this menace, cases were manipulated to benefit the guilty. This had a profound impact on Poe who used certain themes of court matters to develop his ...

One of the main characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe’s works are an artistic disclosure and analysis of the human psyche and the research of how human psychology determines people’s actions. The author considered the human personality not in the aspects of its morality, neither of its philosophical views, nor of the activity of political consciousness, but in the most difficult aspect – psychology. The prose heritage of Poe is mostly represented by his “scary” short stories, which include such tales as “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Oval Portrait”, “Ligeia”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, ...

Montresor planned Fortunato’s revenge masterfully. He knew that Fortunato loved wine and he planned his revenge to coincide with a time when Fortunato could be drunk and to take advantage of the carnival. Montresor specifically planned to murder Fortunato when drunk during a carnival. Montresor states, “He accosted me with excessive warmth for he had been drinking much” (Poe) He (Montresor) tricked Fortunato that he had obtained a pipe of Amontillado-a kind of wine. He urged Fortunato to help him identify the authenticity of the Amontillado but Fortunato was doubtful that Montresor could receive a pipe (about 500 litres of wine) during ...

“The Cask of the Amontillado,” is a short story presenting a death revenge castigated by Montresor the narrator to his unsuspecting friend Fortunato. Montresor fails to specify the reason that forces him to murder his friend in cold blood. He only affirms to the audience that Fortunato had irreparably affronted him. The narrator is successful in killing Fortunato; however, in the end it is obvious that the whole narration is recollection of his murder about fifty years ago. In the second story the “Night Drive,” by Rubem Fonseca an anonymous narrator presents the story in first person acclaiming his murder of ...

While the term madness has no standard definition, I understand it as a state of mind where a person is not in a position to make informed decisions. This essentially means that a mad person always or at most times portrays irrationality in their decisions. They lack reason and cannot be judged as being objectively right in their thinking. However, mad people do not see the insanity in them, for this reason, many philosophers, including the famous Rene Descartes, have argued that perhaps we, who think we are normal, are the mad ones, and those we perceive as being mad, are the normal ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is a frightening example of a person, endeavoring to avoid punishing a person through legal means, and would rather resort to a personal manner of inflicting the righteous retribution. What makes this story all the more frightening is the lack of explanation on why the narrator feels so extremely insulted by his victim, but in a sense, this idea delves into the very core of human relations and to what extent one would go to seek revenge. Thus, by using the murderer as the narrator, Poe is depicting his story through the lens of ...

The Cask of Amontillado was one of famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. It involves the story of the narrator named Montresor and his arch enemy, at least based on his perceptions, named Fortunato. In the beginning of the story, Montresor was wailing about how he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance—referring to Fortunato. An almost clear picture of what type of character Montresor has can be obtained as early as the first few paragraphs of the short story. The main and sub-conflicts in the story were mainly the result of Montresor’s hunger ...

There is never an opportune moment for death. Death occurs when people least expect it. Edgar Allen Poe in his “The Cask of Amontillado” and Kate Chopin in her “The Story of an Hour” talk about how death comes at inopportune moments - when it is least expected. Death is the central theme in both of these works, with the protagonists wishing for someone else’s death. The results however are completely different. Even though the protagonists wish for the other person to die, they really do not have a strong reason for them to die. Montresor talks of ...

The narrator, in Poe's "the cask of Amontillado" says that he will punish Fortunato with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.'' present an argument that Montresor in fact does not punish Fortunato with impunity.
This is one of those truly classic Poe stories which reveals the depth of human revenge and depravation to right a wrong which is obviously something which rankles extremely deeply. It is loosely based upon the story of Romeo and Juliet with two rival families, involving Montresor and and Fortunato, two supposed friends but in their heart of hearts, they are ...

It was the best event I ever experienced in my life – the carnival season just started and it seemed that all the citizens got crazy at one and the same time. They drank wine, cheated on, caroused and hid everything under their masks and costumes. I decided not to fall behind and put on the most expensive clothes that I had in order to have an impressive look of a noble and admired man and one of the best wine connoisseurs. The conical cap with bells completed my costume of motley. At first I wanted to show off and ...

“The Cask of Amantillado” is one of those truly classic Poe stories which reveal the depth of human revenge and depravation to right a wrong which is obviously something which rankles extremely deeply. The story reads as a detailed confession that will only be known the murderer and the reader. It is loosely based upon the story of “Romeo and Juliet” with two rival families, involving Montresor and Fortunato, two supposed friends but in their heart of hearts, they are indeed sworn enemies.

Montresor has vowed to destroy Fortunato once and for all for the various wrongs which he perceived were ...

In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story, The Cask of Amontillado, the readers come across the narrator who is also the protagonist of the story. Montresor is the vile narrator of this story by Poe. The first person narrative comes across to be very merciless, cold, conniving and cruel. The narrator never minds telling the reads that he goes on to torture and then kill Fortunato. Montresor thinks that he did a just act through his brutality. The avid readers of the tale are truly surprised to find that Montresor’s point of view also encompassed writing and poetry. ...

The two short stories "The Cask of the Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell depict psychological portraits of the protagonists’ criminal behavior. However, while both characters commit a crime, their motives, as well as the patterns of thinking and behavior are absolutely different.
Montresor, the protagonist of “The Cask of the Amontillado”, commits a murder as a revenge that is a result of his pride and jealousy to his victim Fortunato. Montresor is portrayed as a criminal, who is so absorbed with the revenge that he does not mention why exactly he retaliates. ...

Response #1

Giddings, Franklin. The Relation of the Criminal to Society. Proceedings of the Academy of

Political Science in the City of New York 1(4), 1911, 559-62.

This article asserts that some of the acts that the legislature defines as crimes are not actions that can cause much harm to the society and future generations, but there are acts that are defined as crimes that pose grave dangerous. Accordingly, the author notes that if one assumes that every person who commits a crime is a criminal then it is hard to find a person who is not a criminal in the United States. In this regard, the article presents two kinds of ‘ ...

It was one of the best events I have got a chance to experience in my life. Carnival in small Italian city with plenty of people. I have put nice and elegant clothes on in order to attract people’s attention and have an amazing night. I felt a bit drunk and dizzy, when I got to the celebration. There were plenty of food and free drinks, people were enjoying themselves dancing and talking.
I also got a chance to meet my old friend Montresor there. I was astonished and felt guilty at the same time. I still could ...

Scholars mainly utilize symbols to convey and express people’s emotions in order to develop their stories or arguments. Edgar Allan strategically employs this style by utilizing physical images and spaces in portraying the feeling of various characters under different set ups. Opposing feelings may have little difference among individuals with strong personalities. For example, it is often hard to know when someone loves or hates something. The paper analyzes how Edgar Allan employs physical images and spaces of confinement in describing the psychological states of people in his scripts The Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven.
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Edgar Allan Poe is known for the horror and thriller in his stories. He has got special skills to make readers keyed up by his writing, presentation and special style of arranging incidents of any story. The author in his highly acclaimed story, Liegia has presented a new style of horror and thrill before the readers. The author is somehow very attached to the Ligeia as he addresses the story as the best among rest of his stories. This paper discusses the author’s work and further talks about one of the main themes of the literary work by the ...