The fact that he has waited fifty years to tell anyone about it only is intended to demonstrate that he has gotten away with a perfect crime. Yes, Montresor achieves exactly the kind of revenge he wants. He explains what he wants in the opening paragraph of the story, and by the end of the story he appears to be fully satisfied with what he has done. The moment Fortunato finally realizes that Montresor plans to harm him takes place when he begins to sober up and moan.
Montresor says, I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The dampness of the catacombs. While Montresor does succeed in luring Fortunato into the catacombs and killing him, Montresor does not fully fulfill his requirements as to how he wanted to get his revenge. Montresor however does not fully succeed with the second condition that he set for himself. Throughout most of his evil deed against Fortunado, Montresor does not demonstrate any sense of guilt or regret.
Montresor does not regret killing Fortunato. On the contrary, even fifty years after he committed the deed, Montresor still thinks he was perfectly justified in murdering Fortunato. Montresor is not confessing but writing a description of an event in his life of which he seems to be proud. The fact that he has waited fifty years to tell anyone about it only is intended to demonstrate that he has gotten away with a perfect crime. This preview shows page 1 — 3 out of 3 pages.
Montresor stops working when Fortunato begins rattling his chains because Montresora is exhausted. Perhaps the most important reason is that it will make Montresor seem perfectly harmless to Fortunato. But Montresor knows that Fortunato could easily become suspicious.
In the last lines of the story, Montresor reveals that he has gotten away with the crime for something like 50 years: Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. Montresor wants revenge because one of his best friends insulted him for no apparent reason.
I think he is talking to a priest. Montresor is obviously confessing his crime of so many years ago, and it appears that this is not the first time he is confessing the same thing. He is retelling, with some delight, the details of his murder of Fortunato.
Montresor carefully plans out his revenge against Fortunato. He chooses Carnival as the time to carry out the murder because he knows people will be drinking and having fun. He makes sure his servants will not be in the house, so no one will see Fortunato coming into his house. Fortunato did not do anything to insult Montresor. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.
Montresor is not in his right mind, and so he has imagined that Fortunato has insulted him. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy as once I was. Clearly, if Fortunato were paying attention, Montresor is pointing out that he no longer is happy like Fortunato, undoubtedly because of the insults he has endured from Fortunato. It showsa human foot crushing a serpent whose fangs are imbedded in the heel of the foot. Montresor murders Fortunato by burying him alive.
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