why?
2006-09-15 00:49:42 · 7 answers · asked by princec_2 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
according to my professor he did because of the whole situational irony, what do you think?
2006-09-15 01:01:56 · update #1
I don't think he did at all. This was one of my favorite stories by E.A.P. But he pre meditated it, he hated and dispised Fortunatdo so I don't think there was any guilt at all. Infact i think he was happy about it.
2006-09-15 00:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, not for killing an insect, yet i will sense accountable if i do not prevail in killing it instantly away, and this is nonetheless alive when I've squashed it. i don't like spraying Raid on something that takes time to die from it, both. i have once felt sorry for a hornet on a windowsill that had a leg twitching, and had to placed it out of this is misery, even regardless of the reality that squishing insects grosses me out. final analysis - killing an insect: no guilt, yet i don't like each and every creature to conflict through.
2016-11-27 00:17:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Montresor says at the end of the story, "My heart grew sick...it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so." Poe would not have included this line at all had he not intended the reader to pick up on Montresor's guilt and attribution of it to the catacombs. He cannot take responsibility for his crime, but neither can he forget it. You must also keep in mind he is telling the tale many years later, and remembers it in such great detail that it must have haunted him.
2006-09-15 04:23:21 · answer #3 · answered by bookworm9211 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His crime was premeditated. Montressor felt as if Fortunato had insulted (can't remember what it was) him and beacuse of the family motto, felt justified.
Also, he didn't really kill Fortunato as much as burying him alive.
2006-09-15 03:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by Bamabrat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course he did. He checked to see if his bells were still ringing before he left. He just didn't feel it deeply.
2006-09-15 01:01:57 · answer #5 · answered by Sugarface 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, he had planned to eliminate him. The only thing that bothered him were the death wails.
2006-09-15 01:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so...maybe he did, but he planned his friend's death all along, so that means he had already vanquished any emotion he had for his friend except anger and jealousy
2006-09-15 01:15:39 · answer #7 · answered by Samarah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋