美国文学赏析-阿芒提拉多的酒桶

The Cask and the Amontillado

In a wooden cask many different things can be hold ,such as old wines,poor quality wines or even poisonous liquid. The most important thing is that you won't know what's that exactly. The cask is always concealed under the cold,dark,damp and deep ground and never see the sunlight,no one notice and find it. Montresor is just like a gloomy cask that no one knows his criminal thinking in the brain. He has good capacity so that he planed a careful and deliberate conspiracy. He controlled all the plot and things,just like a cask hold everything in it and nothing could escape from it.

In the story,the Amontillado was hold in the cask. The old wine Amontillado,which attracted everyone was very fragrant just like the poor Fortunato. He was rich, respected,admired and beloved. He was proud just like the old wine. He jumped into the deadly trap that Montrestor made for him and never came back like the Amontillado hold in the cask and hidden in the damp dark cellar.

But we know that good wine needs no brush. The cask can't hold the fragrance of Amontillado. The old wine could be more fragrant if it's conserved for a longer time. In the end of the story, Montrenstor's plan succeed. He killed Fortunato by blinding him in the cellar,but he hasn't felt any happiness from the revenge. Fortunato was so proud that he hasn't surrendered and begged Montrestor. His arrogance and proud

would existed and affected Montrestor all his life.

Montrestor is a twisted-mind man. In the appearance,he became devil was just because the insult of Fortunato, but actually he was in born devil. No matter who displease him,he will be in big trouble. The poor Fortunato met the defective devil which decide his tragic fate.