What is the climax of the short story The Cask of Amontillado?
The climax of “The Cask of Amontillado” comes when Montresor walls Fortunato up in a niche in the wall of the catacombs. Fortunato’s drunkeness is beginning to wear off, and he realizes Montresor’s intent. When he moans, he is no longer in a drunken stupor but the acknowledgement of his situation.
What is the turning point of Cask of Amontillado?
The turning point of the story is when Fortunato realizes his predicament of being chained to the wall of the inner recess of the catacomb and bricked in, is not carried out in jest but in malice and his death is imminent.
Which event is the climax or highest point of intensity of the Cask of Amontillado?
Why does Montresor repeatedly warn Fortunato of bad air in the vault? He wants to make sure that Fortunato does not suspect his motive. Which event is the climax, or highest point of intensity, of “The Cask of Amontillado”? The climax is when Montresor walls Forunato in.
What is the main conflict of the Cask of Amontillado?
The main conflict in “The Cask of Amontillado” is that between Fortunato and his arch-nemesis Montresor. The conflict is resolved when Montresor kills Fortunato by walling him up alive inside the Montresor family catacombs.
Does Montresor ever express any regret?
In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor neither expresses regret nor questions the justice of his punishment of Fortunato. Montresor speaks of “retribution” rather than punishment for the many unspecified “injuries” that his supposed friend has inflicted on him.
What is Montresor’s weakness?
In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortunato’s weakness is his pride in his connoisseurship of wine. It is this weakness that Montresor exploits in order to lure Fortunato to his death.
What does Montresor think of himself?
Montresor thinks of himself as an honorable, perhaps high-class person worthy of respect.
Why does Montresor keep urging Fortunato back?
Montressor keeps urging Fortunato to turn back ostensibly because the niter was making the latter’s breathing worse and he was coughing. However, in reality it is a classic case of reverse psychology. He enjoyed watching his prey going towards its trap willingly.
Why did he hate Fortunato?
Montresor hate Fortunato because he had been teasing Montresor and Montresor had had enough. Why does Montresor hate Fortunato? he thinks he had done nothing while Fortunato had been being mean to him and his family motto (Nemo me impune lacessit- No one attacks me with impunity) basically says he can.
Why does Montresor hate Fortunato so much?
He feels that he has the right to take justice in his own hands because in his mind he is the wronged party and in keeping with his family motto “no one attacks me with impunity”, he refuses to let Fortunato go without punishing him for his attacks and insults.
Why does Montresor keep suggesting they go back?
Perhaps the most important reason is that it will make Montresor seem perfectly harmless to Fortunato. If Montresor keeps suggesting going back, then he can’t be leading him anywhere that could be dangerous. But Montresor knows that Fortunato could easily become suspicious.
At what point do you find Montresor most disturbing?
Of all the disturbing things Montresor does—lying about the Amontillado, luring Fortunato to the catacombs, entombing Fortunato alive, and so on—for me, the most disturbing is how he tortures Fortunato in several ways. His decision to kill Fortunato cannot be rationally justified.
How did Montresor kill Fortunato?
After leading the intoxicated Fortunato deep into the catacombs of his palazzo, Montresor ends up shackling his enemy to an alcove and proceeds to build a wall around Fortunato. Montresor murders Fortunato by burying him alive.
Why were there no attendants at the narrator’s home when they arrived?
In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montressor, the narrator, explains: There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.