Edgar Allan Poe
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This narrative begins with the narrator telling the readers that a man named Fortunato has greatly insulted him and he plans to get revenge. He reveals that Fortunato is connoisseur of wine and is going to use that to his advantage. He approaches Fortunato at a carnival in a disguise. He tells Fortunato that he has acquired a pipe that would pass for Amontillado, a Spanish drink. The narrator then jests him by telling that if he is busy, then he will ask a man named Luchesi, some sort of rival to Fortunato, to compare the drinks. Fortunato becomes annoyed and tells the narrator that he will taste the drink. The narrator reveals that he has made sure that no one will interrupt his plan because he sent his servants off to this carnival. The walls of the vaults in which they travel to retrieve the pipe were covered in nitre and caused Fortunato to cough. The narrator insists that they should leave due to the nitre affecting Fortunato’s health but he refuses. The narrator then gives him wine to drink. As they reach a crypt, human bones are decorated on three of the four walls. The fourth wall’s bones had fallen on the ground. The narrator tells Fortunato that the indent in the wall where the fourth wall was exposed was where the Amontillado is. Fortunto is intoxicated at this point and goes to where the Amontillado is. The narrator then suddenly chains Fortunato to a stone. The narrator taunts Fortunato as he walls up the entrance to the crypt to trap Fortunato in alive. The entire time, Fortunato is screaming for help until he suddenly laughs and asks the narrator surely this is a joke. Finally, the narrator finishes walling up the crypt and replaces the bones on the fourth wall. | This narrative begins with the narrator telling the readers that a man named Fortunato has greatly insulted him and he plans to get revenge. He reveals that Fortunato is connoisseur of wine and is going to use that to his advantage. He approaches Fortunato at a carnival in a disguise. He tells Fortunato that he has acquired a pipe that would pass for Amontillado, a Spanish drink. The narrator then jests him by telling that if he is busy, then he will ask a man named Luchesi, some sort of rival to Fortunato, to compare the drinks. Fortunato becomes annoyed and tells the narrator that he will taste the drink. The narrator reveals that he has made sure that no one will interrupt his plan because he sent his servants off to this carnival. The walls of the vaults in which they travel to retrieve the pipe were covered in nitre and caused Fortunato to cough. The narrator insists that they should leave due to the nitre affecting Fortunato’s health but he refuses. The narrator then gives him wine to drink. As they reach a crypt, human bones are decorated on three of the four walls. The fourth wall’s bones had fallen on the ground. The narrator tells Fortunato that the indent in the wall where the fourth wall was exposed was where the Amontillado is. Fortunto is intoxicated at this point and goes to where the Amontillado is. The narrator then suddenly chains Fortunato to a stone. The narrator taunts Fortunato as he walls up the entrance to the crypt to trap Fortunato in alive. The entire time, Fortunato is screaming for help until he suddenly laughs and asks the narrator surely this is a joke. Finally, the narrator finishes walling up the crypt and replaces the bones on the fourth wall. | ||
| − | The narrator in this story is | + | The narrator in this story is dsublevery demented. The story begins with him talking about how will definitely get revenge against Fortunato for insulting him. We do not know how he insulted the narrator, but whatever it was was apparently bad enough for the narrator to plan his murder of Fortunato. To want to kill Fortunato for anything seems extreme and as the story progresses, we realize that the narrator has already planned it all out and will go through with it. Even with this knowledge, the narrator spends much of the story trying to get Fortunato to not come with him to the crypt, knowing that Fortunato will refuse, unbeknownst to him that he is being led to his death. It is very dreadful as well that the narrator decided to just trap Fortunato down in the crypt alive to slowly die out. It is assumed that he suffered too, as he died because of the nitre and general dampness of the tomb. All of this was inflicted onto Fortunato by the narrator just because of an insult. It is clear that the narrator must be unstable in some way to be angered in such a way so easily. The narrator spends the entire narrative toying with Fortunato, knowing that he will kill him in the crypt. The readers know this as well. Even as Fortunato was screaming for mercy, the narrator simply left him there with no evidence to what happened to him and why. The narrator is unapologetically cruel and this story frames everything that supports it. |
===Annabel Lee=== | ===Annabel Lee=== | ||
