The Cask of Amontillado
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Theme
The theme of "The Cask of Amontillado" is that friends don't always have the best intentions for you, or they are not always true. Although the narrator, Montresor, was always friendly with Fortunato, his "friend", he had different plans for him in his mind and they ended up being fatal
Montresor burying Fortunato alive
Catacombs
Montresor and Fortunato walking throughout the catacomb
Metaphor
Paragraph 3
"In painting and genmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack..."
How Montresor feels about Fortunato
The way that Montresor feels about Fortunato is pure hatred. Montresor is enraged with something that Fortunato has done, but as the readers we do not know what it is. Montresor just wants to get revenge on him with impunity. "The thousand injuries i had borne as i best could, but when he ventured upon insult, i vowed revenge" paragraph 1, a quote stated by Montresor