Reread the last two sentences in paragraph 1 of "The Cask of Amontillado." Based on this text, what is the narrator's opinion of revenge? What does...

The
last two sentences of paragraph one read as follows:

A
wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when
the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

By "unredressed," the narrator means something like
"not being set right." Therefore, the redresser is the one who goes about righting the
wrong. As such, the first sentence in straightforward language sounds something like this:
"A wrong is not set right when the person meant to set it right is overtaken by feelings of
retribution." In other words, Montresor is saying that he does not want vengeance to get in
the way of justice.

The second sentence means something like "A wrong is
not set right if the avenger does not impress upon the transgressor a sense of
retribution." Basically, Montresor is contradicting himself but does not want the reader to
notice; he wants to portray himself as a just man even though he acts purely out of spite. By
the end of the story, it should be quite clear that Montresor acts for himself and himself
only.

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