Question

In what way is Montresor an unreliable narrator? How does the use of an unreliable narrator influence readers’ views of Montresor’s actions? Cite evidence from the text to support your response. Your final answer should be 7-8 sentences long at least. If you use quotations from the story, be sure to format those correctly.

Answer 1

https://tda.brightspace.com/content/enforced/6726-ENG300-1/Cask%20of%20Amontillado.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=mng9gAS9eRnKGOjmTnE0c9tBY

Answer 2

Unreliable character? WHAT do you think that means?

Answer 3

What would make him, unreliable? Hmm.. Brainstorm on this, what backs this up?

Answer 4

When you get it, tag me so we can make the paragraph

Answer 5

this is what i found - if he’s capable of plastering Fortunato into a vault, we can’t trust him. If he’s lying, and he didn’t kill Fortunato, then we still can’t trust him.

Unless, that is, Montresor’s unreliability reveals truths about human nature.

We talk about Poe’s “secret writing” in “What’s Up With the Title.” We can assume that everything we read about in “The Cask” is code for something deeper, including Montresor. In fact, we think he’s less a flesh and blood character than a literary mechanism, meant to provoke emotional responses to reveal our own characters, and ultimately, if we are brave, to give us a more profound understanding of what it means to be human.

So, if Poe’s technique works, and Montresor makes us understand ourselves and other people better, then maybe we can trust Montresor − as loathsome as that sounds.

Answer 6

@MissSmartiez

Answer 7

Wow, that seems very well put, now, can you actually pull textual evidence of this and or quote it :)?

Answer 8

In the story, it proves my point. In sentence _ it says .....

Which protrays the narrator as....

Answer 9

im not good at that part lol

Answer 10

@MissSmartiez

Answer 11

See the dotted lines in the PDF.

Answer 12

yes

Answer 13

The words he uses portrays that he is based on bias, and what?


This makes him unreliable.

Answer 14

right

Answer 15

Like he uses words like? To demean whom? He wants revenge or what?

Answer 16

@james1107 ..... and hmmmm

Answer 17

like i have no clue i searched google and it even said do what

Answer 18

hes unsympathetic.... not quit sure if he ic confessing his sins or bragging about them... He’s a cold and ruthless killer. He not only enjoys killing, but also thinks it’s necessary.............As the narrator, he’s telling the story fifty years after it happened. This raises a whole host of complicated questions. We’ll cover the main ones in a moment under “Bragging of Confessing,” but first, let’s look at some other aspects of his character

Answer 19

lol its alright @james1107

Answer 20

sounds good to me i would give u an a+

Answer 21

lol

Answer 22

@MissSmartiez

Answer 23

Can't get to the story.,

Answer 24

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https://tda.brightspace.com/content/enforced/6726-ENG300-1/Cask%20of%20Amontillado.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=mng9gAS9eRnKGOjmTnE0c9tBY

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Answer 25

it won't unlock ;-;

Answer 26

what you mean?

Answer 27

ohh sorry lol it must of timed out sense yesterday here is the link again
https://tda.brightspace.com/content/enforced/6726-ENG300-1/Cask%20of%20Amontillado.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=9hcYpbMDXU00uBIDPiRdEO9X2

Answer 28

@MissSmartiez

Answer 29

better,