The Cask of Amontillado Hop Frog
Montresor effectively fulfilled the first criterion of revenge, which was to punish the victim. Fortunato was punished for his insulting actions upon Montresor. First, Montresor punishes Fortunato by killing him. Montresor lures Fortunato to the dungeon by making him drunk and there he ties Fortunato to the wall and leaves the room, making Fortunato slowly die through suffering. Montresor also punishes Fortunato by killing the friendship between them. Fortunato felt happy at first telling Montresor, "Ha! ha! ha! - a very good joke indeed," but then he realized that Montresor was not joking. Fortunato was hurt because he was trapped behind a wall and he knew that Montresor could save him, but did not. Montresor punished Fortunato by killing him and by killing the relationship between them. Hop Frog, the main character in "Hop Frog," by Edgar Allan Poe, also successfully met his goals of punishing the king and his ministers because the king made Hop Frog a jester for his entertainment. Hop Frog punishes the king and his ministers by making fun of them. Hop Frog dresses them in a ridiculous orangutan outfit, in front of the people who attended the masquerade party. As an addition to the humiliating outfit, he covers t
The third criteria of revenge was not successfully met by Montresor, which was to let the victim know that he is being punished and let the victim know what he is being punished for. Montresor was successful in the first part of the criteria because he did let Fortunato know that he was being punished by saying, "for the love of God," because after this statement, Fortunato did not reply and he had realized that he was being punished. But Montresor was unsuccessful in letting Fortunato know what he was being punished for. Fortunato merely said that his entrapment was "an excellent jest" and he thought the whole thing was a joke. He never realized why Montresor murdered him. Hop Frog was also unsuccessful in meeting the third criteria of revenge. Hop Frog did try and let the king know that he was going to murder him. He grated his teeth and the sound was heard from all four corners of the room, and the king did not know why Hop Frog had made the sound. Hop Frog then laughed at this and "displayed a set of large, powerful, and very repulsive teeth." Hop Frog was trying to tell the king, by showing his teeth, that he was being punished. But Hop Frog was unsuccessful in letting the king know why he was being punished. Even after the king had offered Hop Frog drinks, which he did not want, and he pushed Trippetta from him, the king did
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