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The story's narrator, a nobleman named Montresor, describes his revenge against fellow noble Fortunato. Angry over numerous injuries and an unspecified insult, Montresor resolves to avenge himself without being caught, and also to make sure that Fortunato knows he is responsible.
I am adding a character section to the article : Montresor- The narrator of the story who has laid out a plan to kill Fortunato for the amount of pain he has caused Montresor for a long period of time. Comes from a wealthy respected family and has pride in his family name. Fortunato- A wine lover who has been causing harm to the narrator.
Fortunio himself was raised with immense wealth and no restrictions, and much is made of his behavior and personality. It is noted that rich men have no cares for the law, but Fortunio does not do anything that the narrator himself considers immoral until he burns Musidora's house down.
The narrator in Poe’s story attempts to kill the look-alike, but ends up murdering his wife with an axe when she gets in the way instead. He then hides her body in the damp walls of his home.
It only aired once and was pulled from reruns due to complaints about content, though Lorne Michaels has said that it was pulled because he didn't find it funny. It is available on Internet video sites and as a special feature on the DVD version of the Saturday Night Live best-of special "The Best of TV Funhouse." 24 April 4, 1998
The literary device of stories within a story dates back to a device known as a "frame story", where a supplemental story is used to help tell the main story.Typically, the outer story or "frame" does not have much matter, and most of the work consists of one or more complete stories told by one or more storytellers.
The protagonist of Misery was a successful romance novelist who killed off his most popular character to allow himself to write in other styles of fiction, only to be imprisoned by an angry, deranged fan; King saw Misery as a metaphor for his feelings of being chained to writing horror fiction. [5]
The story is written in the form of an internal "diary" in broken English kept by what the reader presumes is a deformed child (gender unspecified) chained in the basement by its violently abusive parents (the story makes it clear that the man and woman who have imprisoned the child are its biological parents when the child recalls the man commenting about how, in stark contrast to the child ...