For example, Amontillado is angered by Fortunato's insult and immediately seeks revenge for this insult to him. As studied "When Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato into the blind wall of the castle's underground passages and takes him prisoner, he has already prepared mortar and a trowel to wall up his victim" (Benton). On the condition that the character has gone mad for wanting to take revenge on his friend by torturing him until his death. As we see in the story “…there was a voice that I had difficulty recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato…we laughed a lot about it in the palace – he! he! him!..." (Poe 253). Admitting that this voice in his head mocking a conversation with his already dead friend lets the reader know how mean the character is to his