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The Cask of Amontillado

//Edgar Allan Poe//

 * [[image:ilexsec418:455px-CaskofAmontillado-Clarke.jpg width="271" height="360" caption="Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919."]] ||
 * Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919. ||

**Characters**
 //**Montresor:**// rich man who looks for revenge at any expense.  //**Fortunato:**// innocent victim, expert of the good drink and good live.  //**Luchesi:**// expert in wines and disagreeable man for Fortunato.

**General Review**
The cask of Amontillado is a work written by the famous Edgar Allan Poe, teacher of the terror born in Baltimore (United States) in 1809. Also writer of works as important as The raven and The black cat. The cask of Amontillado was published by the first time in 1846, three years before his death.

Defined as one of the cruellest stories of the writer due to the fact that the revenge is taken to the major degree, and it is executed by total coldness.

**Plot**
The history narrated in the first person by Montresor, begins with the revelation of the events that decided it to beginning the revenge, without entering details and touching the relation that existed between him and Fortunato.

In the progress of the history, Montresor identifies as a cautious, cold and meticulous individual, who does not take feelings guilts as his actions. On the contrary, he decides to use the weakness of your adversary for the wines, and plans revenge around one of them, the Amontillado.

Though he plans in a lot of time the revenge, finds the opportunity during the carnival, in a meeting in the Italian streets with Fortunato, who is drunk and disguised of buffoon. He extends the trap, using the pretext of consulting with a competitor of Fortunato, who supposedly knows more of wines. It takes it to his home tempting it for looking at this mentioned wine.

Montresor already had foreseen the success of his plan, and had given him free the assistants, leaving the uninhabited place.

They enter the wine-cellars of the family, an ideal place to realize a crime and where the dampness helps to damage the health of Fortunato, who is sick. Montresor resorts to one of your wines to help Fortunato to control the cough, but that actually conceals the intentions of intoxicating it completely, to facilitate the task.

They continue entering the immense catacomb, up to a place that Fortunato is chained without realizing and to catch slowly, brick to brick the depths of the wine-cellars.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Fortunato begs and shouts until it is kept silent during a time. Then, maybe already raving, speech brings over of a joke and Montresor continues your work, without stopping conversing. He finishes this task and leaves. After fifty years Montresor realizes this statement without specifying because of your actions.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I describe the history as necessarily for any person in whom the orality and the writing are important in his life since it manages with the available tools in the epoch to construct a very complex plot to catch to most neglected the readers. It puts in discussion the traditional values and the morality, immerses us in a lugubrious and dark environment managing to communicate with efficiency the existing sensation of the prominent figures, both of revenge and of impotence.

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