Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27729149-20151204153148/@comment-27818776-20160130020407

Never, I've never seen that anime; still pretty busy. Anyway, so I had finished proposing the Nome King from the novelization of Return to Oz, and, I stated that he was a megalomaniac who craved more power, and that he was a miser when it came to his jewels/gems. He is extremely petty when it comes to someone taking his possessions, to the point that he puts them in an And I Must Scream fate. He's never played for sympathy, only cares about securing more power for himself, etc.

So with that out of the way, I was reading "Cask of Amontillado" in my English Comprehension II class, and, before I mention I get into it, I must ask, did Montresor have remorse for murdering Fortunato? I mean, yes, it seems like he does, but then he tries to pass that off as the "dampness of the catacombs." This seems more like an Ignored Epiphany moment. That, and I know that he only kills one person, but it's the way that he manipulates Fortunato into thinking that he was his friend, only to then murder him is just really disgusting. That, and the fact that he chains Fortunato up, buries him alive, and he leaves him to starve/suffocate to death is abhorrent. While we don't know much about Montresor, we do know that he has a large ego, choosing to murder Fortunato for an unknown insult which bruised his ego, and in the short story, he even pleasantfully tells the reader that he had gotten away with murder.