Pit And The Pendulum Thesis

The romantic period was a time where authors peaked more into the emotions of the readers. Authors such as Edgar Allen Poe would write stories that were meant to make the audience feel fearful or scared with the text; other authors would try and reach a person’s moral compass to make them agree with the argument of the author. American Literature is influenced by the emotion of the time that it is happening in and also by the emotions and beliefs of the audience. In the reading of “the pit and the pendulum” Poe would use imagery to help the reader be able to see the setting of the location where the man was being held captive in a way that would make the person reading the material feel the sense of fear and be able to put a picture of the