He can easily lure him to his death trap too. He can appear in disguise and locate his target with ease. The festive that is taking place provides a perfect opportunity for Montresor to execute his plan. This causes the reader to be able to predict fear and tremble right from the start of the story.
Poe can present these events in a manner that brings an ambiance of horror through his treatment of time and place. Montresor decides to invite him into the catacombs to try a cask of amontillado and then seals him to die. In the plot, Montresor plans to execute his plan when Fortunato is drunk, dizzy and putting on a jester’s motley. Carnival was a season presented as one of joy, however, Montresor plots to murder Fortunato because of some unspecified insult. Montresor tells the story of the night he had his revenge on Fortunato, who was a fellow nobleman. There seems to be a person being addressed personally in the dialogues (Arntzen 2018). There is a strong connotative value between the action in the narration and the dialogue. This emphasizes human weakness and adding a layer of confusion and darkness of the story.
Poe explores the activities in the story from the first person point of views because of the subjectivity that exist in a first-person account. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Casks of Amontillado” is a great tale of suspense and revenge.
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