Fortunato is Fortunes Fool in The Cask of Amontillado Essay -- Edgar

Fortunato, hazards Fool Who was Fortunes Fool? The answer to that question would be Fortunato. Fortunato is a character in Edgar Allan Poes short story, The Cask of Amontillado. Fortunato has wronged Montresor, the narrator of Cask. The referee behindt trust Montresor because he is an unreliable narrator, so the subscriber cant say for a fact that Fortunato had wronged Montresor. Montresor then seeks revenge on Fortunato. During carnivale season, Fortunato is drinking all types of wine. Montresor knows Fortunato is rummy so he goes to Fortunato and tells him he has Amontillado. Fortunato wants the Amontillado so much, that he is willing to do anything for it, that leads him to his death. Montresor brought Fortunato into the catacombs, chained Fortunato to the wall, walled Fortunato up, and Fortunato was dead. Actually he wasnt dead right then and there. Montresor walled Fortunato up alive, so Fortunato can suffer much pain, then die, die a helpless man. Fortunato was a fun l oving/outgoing, alcoholic, boastful/prideful man. garmented as a jester at the carnivale, Fortunato was getting drunk. He drank and chatted with umteen people. Fortunato was a very fun-loving and outgoing man, ?He had a weak point- this Fortunato- although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared.? Montresor calls him respected, this shows that Fortunato was a man who many liked, making them respect him. The fear, as the reader might suspect, is that he prides himself too much in his knowledge of wine. another(prenominal) fear, as the reader can assume, may be that he can get too outgoing. His drinking problems probably make him very agitated and obnoxious. Montresor knows that Fortunato is very outgoing, and that he aims and shoots fo... ...haracteristics bring about Fortunato?s probability. He was fortune?s fool. His fortunes catch up with him and lead to a bad consequence, Fortunato?s death. If Fortunato wasn?t so enthusiastic when it came to wines , he may have completed Montresor was going to do something bad. If Fortunato wasn?t an alcoholic, he wouldn?t have been drunk. If he wasn?t drunk, he may have known that Montresor was going to woe him. Finally, if Fortunato wasn?t boastful and prideful, he wouldn?t have wronged Montresor at all. And if he never had done some sort of wrong to Montresor, he wouldn?t be dead. In summary, if Fortunato didn?t have those 3 characteristics, he wouldn?t be dead, and Montresor would have never said he had been ?wronged.? Unfortunately Fortunato was Fortune?s Fool. For his fortune favored him. Fortune was God?s authorize to the fools, which is why fortune favors the fools.