AN IDEALISTIC FRIENSHIP Essays - The Cask Of Amontillado, Sherry

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO:An Idealistic Friendship Fortunato knew how his true virtuoso spirit shined through between his interactions with others. His enthusiasm was adopted to suit the time and opportunities. Unfortunately, it was Montresor who achieved his merciless plans, which were presented at any given time. Adaptation in and out of a world in which one only works in, involved several evidences of disadvantages. For example, The Cask of Amontillado written by Edgar Allan Poe revealed one main common theme of betrayal and revenge and class struggles. The characters of Fortunato and Montresor was about ?Nemo Me Impune Lacessit is, the motto of the Order of the Thistle, and means "No one (Harms, wounds, hurts, provokes) me with impunity.? Anger and insults are the main motivational factors that provided the motive for revenge. Montresor deceptive objectives of the placing of bricks and waiting until he knew for sure Fortunato was drunk. Fortunato was at a disadvantage and Montresor did achieve his justification of revenge. Alcoho lism is an evil abode between enemies. Alcoholism was a part of the demise of Fortunato. However, how does ignorance and the lack of the knowledge about the difference of Amontillado and Sherry, when factually Amontillado is a type of Sherry. Knowledge is important. However, compassion and empathy is more important than knowledge. With knowledge one needs to ask the question, do you know who you are? Montresor was a faceless mental sickness and perhaps a mad man. Why did he not keep company of his own class? The answer lies in his ?thousand injuries? History have proven how class struggles consistently favors the elite of any societies. Montresor inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct and motives did not impel Montresor with compassion of the right action. His single mission was not at all in his onslaught of Fortunato. "Schlaraffia is an idealistic organization based on friendship and tolerance," Mr. Seher said. "We believe that the human being counts; we don't care where a man prays or what his politics are, only that he performs within our circle." schlaraffia-josefina.com internet on 11/15/10. Class Struggles:? Having declared in the opening sentence of the Manifesto that all history is the history of class struggles, Marx adds immediately in a footnote "of written history". For prior to the invention of writing, societies were nomadic, organized in tribes, each tribe made of less than 100 individuals. There was hardly any division of labor, other than sexual. The tribe would designate a chief, and modern ethnology tells us the chief had very little power. His main function was to defuse any conflict among tribesmen, not as a judge, he had no power to judge, but more by using his charisma to talk people out of their quarrels. His authority would be limited to leading the hunt and, of course, the war. That's all. In his essay, The Origin of Property, Family and the State, Engels describes social life in these primitive tribes very much as something like "anarchy".