The Cask of Amontillado | Quotes. Share. Share. Click to copy. 1. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. Montresor. This line opens the story and establishes the character of Montresor, the narrator.
-The web, and more specifically social media, have given ordinary citizens a way to express their opinions to a broad audience-The popularity of the web has reduced the readership of print media. Which quote most clearly reflects pressure from superiors as a motivation for bias in the media?
Besides he's Catholic. He would never steal.3. Haley: Right, because you wouldn't say anything at all to defend your best friend. Kenneth: I wouldn't! Haley: You're a guy, Kenneth. All boys stick together. It's a part of your code or something.4. Kenneth: Now you're just being unreasonable.
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This establishes Montresor's very specific idea of justice. If someone is punishing another person for an offense, he is only successful if he doesn't suffer himself and if the other person knows what is going on and why.
Fortunato introduces an appeal to Christian mercy as his final attempt to persuade Montresor to let him go. When Montresor echoes him, he is refusing that request (and claiming the dark privilege of punishing Fortunato as a way of pleasing God). Summary Symbols. Cite This Study Guide.
This little speech by Montresor achieves two very different functions. First, the ending goads Fortunato along by mentioning Luchesi —which ensures that Fortunato will ignore the suggestion to turn back and instead surge forward (to his death). Second, tucked away in the middle are four telling words: "as once I was." This seems to indicate that Montresor has had some fall from grace socially (whether real or imagined by him), perhaps connected with the wrongs he attributes to Fortunato.
Fortunato has just made a hand gesture signaling he is a member of the Masons, a fraternal order (with some history of secret practices). In making the sign to Montresor, Fortunato is signaling their brotherhood. However, Montresor responds by pulling a trowel out from under his cloak, which is a tool used by an actual mason. Fortunato laughs at the sight and treats it as a joke, but it is yet another sign something is deeply wrong, and another sign Fortunato misreads.
Montresor. On a literal level, this passage simply sets the scene: it is so dark in the crypt and the crypt so large that the torch can't light it to make it visible. However, light is also associated with understanding and vision with knowing (think of phrases such as "the Enlightenment").
Like the coat of arms, this Montresor family motto has both general and specific meanings. The general meaning is, again, the Montresors are an old and noble family (this was, in fact, the motto of the English royal Stuart family).
Early and late in the story, Montresor pulls back from the story itself to give just a bit of framing commentary. Montresor never identifies who he is talking to , so it is not clear if the reader in general is meant to know his soul's nature or if he's addressing some specific person.
Haley: Sorry, but I'm just anxious to meet Francis . I think he gypped some of my tips from last night.2
Haley: Right, because you wouldn't say anything at all to defend your best friend.
Haley: You're a guy, Kenneth. All boys stick together. It's a part of your code or something.4
Racial slurs are still a common part of communication in the United States .
A type of bias related to how people respond to research questions. They have the tendency to respond to questions in a socially desirable manner
A type of bias related to memory. Most research on memories suggests that our memories of the past are not as accurate as we think, especially when we are remembering times of high stress.
The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition. In other words, we have a tendency to think that people are how they act.
The closely related availability heuristic is the tendency to make decisions about how likely an action or event is based upon how readily available similar information is in our memories.
Jose reads Sarina's essay that strongly supports capital punishment. Jose knows that Sarina had been assigned the task of writing the essay favoring capital punishment by her debate teacher. Jose is likely to.
After 3-year-old Davis sees his dad shaving, he covers his own face with shaving cream. This is an example of.
If you scored 99 out of 100 on your first social psychology exam, you are likely to score lower on the second exam, even if you are equally knowledgeable about the material on both exams. This is an example of.
The Chinese couple received service at all of the establishments except one. Six months later, LaPiere sent a questionnaire to the same establishments, asking whether they would accommodate Chinese guests. How many said they would accommodate Chinese guests?