THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
In "The Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe uses two types of irony, dramatic and verbal to show where the reader perceives something that a character in the story does not. Poe uses this type of irony in the character Fortunato. As well as when the character says one thing and means something else. This type of irony can be recognized in the statements that the characters, Fortunato and Montresor, say to one another.The name of the character, Fortunato holds dramatic irony within itself. The name Fortunato resembles the word fortunate. In this story, the character Fortunato is anything but fortunate. At the beginning, Fortunato believes that he is fortunate to have a friend, Montresor, who believes to have found a pipe of Amontillado. However, in the end Fortunato learns that he has been tricked and is buried alive. Another ironic feature about
Therefore, in Montresor's mind, Fortunato brought his death upon himself, which makes him the fool. Throughout the story, Fortunato is fooled to believe Montesor's claim of the Amontillado. is the way he is described to be dressed, like a court jester. We will go back; you will be ill and I cannot beresponsible. "'I drink,' he says, 'to the buried that repose around us'". There are many times in the story that Montresor insist on turning back do to Fortunato's health, but Fortunato refuses each time. Fortunato has the slightest clue that he is toasting to himself. " Literature and the Writing Process. However, inside Montresor could care less about Fortunato's health. When Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall the statement that he says, Makes Fortunato look like a fool. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert funk. "' Pass your hand over the wall; you cannot help Feeling the nitre.
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