The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Cask of Amontillado is an excellent display of how you can take a very sane person, given the right circumstances, and make a malicious person out of him or her. Revenge is a feeling that has the ability to over come a persons grip on reality. The narrator Montressor feels that he was insulted greatly by our not so fortunate Fortunado. Montressor vows to have vengeance …showed first 75 words of 1079 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1079 total…disgraced through words. This is ridiculous, they are just words, they could even just be spoken out of anger, which is probable for a large portion of the time. Luckily there are people in this world that have self control and do not feel the need to have revenge on every one that says something cross about them. However, you have no idea who each person is, so choose your words wisely and be aware.