Help with "The Cask of Amontillado"

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Hi my name is Ana and I need help with some issues about "The Cask of Amontillado" because my final test is due next week. The questions are: a)What do we learn about the character of Fortunato from Montresor? b)What is the significance of his name? c)Is he a simpathetic character? d)Discuss the issue of missing information in "The Cask of Amontillado" Please, I need some clues to develop my essay. Thank you very much. Love. Ana

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

Answers

Let's see... I haven't read that since I was in high school. I think I can help with d. Poe often used missing information in his stories and poems to make them more suspenseful. It's the unknown factor that sends chills down your spine.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Fortunato : He is of high reputation is a man to be respected and even feared, member of the free-masons, knows well bout wine, seems to have a good social life

where as Montresor :

He isnt talking much, we get the impresion that he maybe was if a good reputatin but nowadays is not. he is , so would i say a clever man who wants to take revange maybe - we do not know poe never says something bout that.

THE NAMES : Fortonato means something like the lucky 1 Montresor is a great and numerouse family -> MOTTO : nemo me impune lacessit - nobody hurts me without being punished !! thats important for the end of the story . Simpathetic - dont think so .... but maybe

i wouldnt say missing information ... but anyway thats something Poe is doing all the time long thats what makes the story more suspence. he never says whats going on he only for-shadows We can see that in the part where he says :"Nemo me impune lacessit" so we get the clue thats Fortunato did something wrong to Montresor (but we do not know what and if really - thats up to the reader to find out)and in the end Fortunato gets punished. Further more the part where Fortunato says :"i will not kill me , i shall not die of a cough" and Montresor answers TRUE TRUE - another clue that Fortunato will die in the end .

HOPE THATS HELPED U LITTLE - IF U NEED SOMETHING MORE JUST LET ME KNOW .... AND WOULD BE GREAT IF U TELL ME HOW YOUR TEST WAS ....

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001


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