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Character Analysis of The Cask of Amontillado

Abstract: The theme was revealed through the analysis of the two protagonists‟ characters.Fortunato‟s arrogance,fatuity are embodied in his language, behaviour and appearance.As to Montresor, his obduracy is vividly displayed step by step in his “perfect” plan, he has lost the basic humanity, he is the victim of the industrial society.Key Words: character, arrogant, obduracy, warning, downfall

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story indited by Edgar Allan Poe, a famous American novelist, poet and eayist.The story tells us a cliff-hanging revenge proce, which involves two protagonists.Fortunato, the victim of the plan, is extremely arrogant, astrut and fatuous;Montresor, the avenger and the hatcher of the plan, is over-rational and marblehearted.Through depicting the two typical characters, Poe aims at warning the modern people that the high-developed industrial society is bringing people to downfall and final perdition.I would like to put Fortunato in the first place to analyze.One important aspect of his character is arrogance.The first mention of him is indirect description, from Montresor‟s narration, we get to know that Fortunato‟s weak point-he prides himself on his connoieur in wine.We can imagine how self-conceited Fortunato is through this artful description.And this is rightly proved in the language description in the following.“Let us go, neverthele.The cold is merely nothing.Amontillado!You have been imposed upon.And as for Luchesi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado.” When Montresor tempts him with Amontillado and mentions another connoieur of wine Luchesi deliberately, Fortunato is so eager to display himself that is easily caught with chaff.He even vilipends Luchesi to show his sovereign ability.We could see that he is immersed in his arrogance and is totally driven by it.And there is also an ironic description, I notice that every time they meet some obstacle in the vaults, Montresor will mention Luchesi and Fortunato immediately forgets anything and moves on resolutely.It is his hubris that leads him to his tomb, step by step.Another obvious character of Fortunato is fatuity.We can see from the novel that the first direct description of him is about his appearance.“The man wore motley.He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dre, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.” Striped dre is often the symble of the prisoner or psychopath, also he has bells on his conical cap, and these are all sighs of a fool and indicated Fortunato‟s hebetudes.I notice that at the end of the novel, Fortunato mentions his wife, he calls her „Lady Fortunato‟, and we can tell that he is an aristocrat in the society.However, when he gets Montresor‟s vaults, he puts up his ignorance of Montresor‟s large family and their arms.This also indicates his fatuity.At last, he is a person devoid of good education.We can tell this from his language, he vilipends Luchesi when he fears that Luchesi might take away his opportunity to display.Fortunato is typical in his time, he dies of his sovereign pride endowed by the high-developed industrial civilization.Then is the character analysis of Montresor, the designer and executant of the perfect revenge plan.First of all, it is about his obduracy.In the very beginning of the novel is the vivid psychological description of Montresor.From his determined and confident tone, we can feel that he has no sense of sympathy in his heart.Furthermore, from his reveng goal, “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.A wrong is unredreed when retribution overtakes its redreer.It is equally unredreed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong”, we can sense he has lost his basic human nature and merely treats this revenge as a game.In addition, at the climax of the story, when he hears Fortunato‟s struggling sound on the wall he is locked, Montresor even feels more satisfied.And when he hears the durative screaming, he merely hesitates and trembles for a brief moment before he continues his brickwork again.Thus, he has completely lost the humanity and the basic right to be a real human.Montresor is also good at scheming, we can easily see his outstanding sense from the following details.Firstly, at the beginning of his narration, we learn that he still smiles to Fortunato when he is determined to kill him, for fear of arousing Fortunato‟s suspicion.Then, he chooses the perfect time-the carnival season, during which people are all busy making merry and all of them are in different costumes.This is splendiferous cover for his murder.Moreover, he is quite aware of Fortunato‟s weak point and takes advantage of it quite well.He uses Amontillado to tempt Fortunato and stimulates him with the implicit threat, Luchesi.The last detail I would like to mention here is the way he dispels his servants.He tells them he won‟t come back until the next morning, he knows it is enough to ensure their fleeing since it is the carnival season.In order to avoid their suspicion and insure his innocence, he also orders them not to stir from the house.How flawle his great plan is!Thus, Montresor‟s character is displayed before us incisively and vividly.In fact, he buries himself at the same time he finished Fortunato‟s life in his vaults.His heart has been enwrapped by pure concept of sense and becomes its slave, he loses the basic qualities as a human, he cannot find the significance of life anymore and he loses the right and ability to enjoy life.Through depicting the two typical characters in the industrial society, Poe gives people who are immersed in the development of science and technology a alarming warning, he warns them to be prudent about the high-developed industrial civilization.It may not bring people to the bright future as they imagined, on the contrary, it may deprive people‟s emotions and humanity insensibly and make people arrogant or over-rational, then fretful, confused and even desperate.It may lead people to downfall in the end.