The fact that he has waited fifty years to tell anyone about it only is intended to demonstrate that he has gotten away with a perfect crime. We do know that Fortunato is a powerful man who is respected and also feared. He is competitive and always wants to be first in everything he does, so he is foolish when he wants to rush to the catacombs to be the first to taste the Amontillado. His pride and his single-mindedness helped contribute to his death. Fortunato is arrogant about his wine tasting abilities, which is what leads him into the snare that kills him if Montressor is telling the truth about the incident.
It seems that Fortunato truly has no idea what he has done because he is absolutely shocked when he realizes what is happening. Remember that he anticipated letting the servants off at a time that would not arouse suspicion since it was carnival time; clearly, his entire plan of revenge was contrived with such perfection that Montresor had to be an exceptionally gifted person.
But then, again, the question arises: How could a gifted person imagine insults of such magnitude so as to cause him to effect such a horrible revenge? Informing the entire story is the nature of an insult that could evoke such a well-planned, diabolical scheme of revenge.
If indeed there was an insult of such magnitude, then is Fortunato unaware of it to such an extent that he would accompany the person that he has insulted into such a dreadful place? Or was he simply drunk with the carnival madness that was occurring throughout the city? The reader, of course, is shocked by the diabolical efficiency of the murderer, and also by the fact that Montresor has lived with impunity, and also, ironically, his victim has rested in peace for fifty years.
The double and ironic viewpoint continues on every plane. When Montresor met Fortunato, he smiled continually at Fortunato, who thought he saw a smile of warmth and friendliness, when in reality, the smile was a satanic smile in anticipation of Fortunato's entombment.
Likewise, Montresor's first words to him were "you are luckily met. Likewise, when Fortunato drinks a toast to the people buried in the catacombs, he little knows that he is drinking a toast to his own impending death. The same is true when Fortunato insults Montresor concerning the masons — both a secret, honorable order which requires close scrutiny for a person to become a member and, of course, an honorable trade, a tool of which Montresor will use for a most dishonorable deed.
In general, this story fits well into Poe's dictum that everything in a well-written story must contribute to a total effect. The constant use of irony — the drinking of the wine to warm Fortunato so that he can continue his journey to his death, the jingling of the bells announcing his death, the carnival atmosphere versus the atrocities, the irony of Fortunato's name, the irony of the coat of arms, the irony in the unintentional remarks or were they?
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My Preferences My Reading List. To Fortunato it means a member of a secret society, while to Montresor it means a person who builds a wall. The cap and costume is symbolic because Fortunato is dressed as a clown, and acting like a clown by being silly and drunk and Montresor is making a fool of him. He is drinking and dressing up because he is participating in a cultural event with some religious significance, since it is related to coming off of Lent.
Montresor does not experience satisfaction with the perfect crime he has committed. Instead he says: My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. He has called to Fortunato several times without getting a response.
In the last lines of the story, Montresor reveals that he has gotten away with the crime for something like 50 years: Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. Montresor is vengeful, obsessive, methodical, deceitful, manipulative, and merciless. What type of reasoning is used in this example The air is dry in deserts.
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