Poe - A perfect Plan of Guilt :: essays research papers

Revenge is sweet and depravity it torture. Montresor decides to dabble between penalise and guilt and ultimately learns that retaliate has consumed him. This can be seen when Montresor is aware of the measly that Fortunato is feeling as he begins killing him. The compassion that Montresor feels is coupled with guilt from the murder he committed. These feelings agnize Montresors perfect plan of retaliate lead to a lifetime of guilt.      Revenge has a thin moving in which can easily be crossed when the revenge no time-consuming fits the crime. Montresor speaks of this during the first paragraph when he states I must not unaccompanied punish, but punish with impunity (Poe 141). He wants to be exempt from harm as well as from guilt. This would make the revenge sweet, or satisfying. Montresor comments on a satisfying revenge at the end of the first paragraph by swearing A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredress ed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong" (141). Montresor means that revenge must be satisfying, but can not consume himself. He can not step over this line and commit a crime himself. This act will cause guilt upon the avenger and go on any satisfying feeling that he might have original from the revenge.      Montresor begins to be overtaken by his retribution almost immediately. His fascination with deception is his easy point. Montresor plans a revenge that would satisfy him for the insults that have been committed against him. sequence doing so he wants to be stealthy and states it must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to discredit my good will (141) He continues to deceive Fortunato by lying to him or so the pipe of Amontillado and playing on his nature of a wine connoisseurship. Montresor would say I have my doubts (142) knowing that Fortunato would only become mor e motivate to taste the Amontillado and tell of its authenticity. It is this deception that he becomes carried away with. This becomes a hazard for Montresor. He uses Fortunato as a pawn, and plays each move very carefully.      While Montresor has become fatally involved in his plan of revenge he still has not forgotten that Fortunato is a friend. When they are ready to go to the vaults, Montresor shows concern for Fortunatos health.