twins comparative
In the face of danger every action and decision you make can determine how things unravel. in a mere second ones life could be put in danger and their quick thinking might be the only difference between life and death. It is human nature to fight for ones life. In both stories "twins" by Eric Wright or "pit and the pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe the characters intelligence, suspense and the symbols all are shown in the stories, as well as ones will to survive.
The characters in both stories share a very good intelligence. Lucy from "twins" has to outthink her husband in order to save her own life. She waits until finding out the entire escape plan to getting away with the murder before she kills her husband. She also was "giving him every last chance to prove her guess was wrong"(Wright,217). Lucy thought out her own plan, and made sure all her accusations about her husband were correct, before shooting him. Lucy had to outthink someone to save her own life, however the narrator from "pit and the pendulum" used another form of intelligence. He was put into different torture chambers where his quick thinking saved his life. He only had a few moments before the pendulum cut right threw him, and he quickly thought of an escape route. He got free "with the particles of the oily and spicy viand which now remained, I thoroughly rubbed the bandage wherever I could reach"(Poe,244). This shows the narrators clutch train of thought. Both of the characters used their head as their main weapon while fighting death.
Suspense is a large part of both stories. It makes your heart pound knees quiver, and to want nothing more than to know what is to come next. In "twins" the entire storyline seems unstable. The thought of the husband unknowingly writing the plot to his own death is quite suspenseful in itself. "Don't turn round Lucy"(Wright,216). This quote acts as the climax of the story, until this point the husbands real intent with the plot is unknown. It is very
The characters in both stories share a very good intelligence. Lucy from "twins" has to outthink her husband in order to save her own life. She waits until finding out the entire escape plan to getting away with the murder before she kills her husband. She also was "giving him every last chance to prove her guess was wrong"(Wright,217). Lucy thought out her own plan, and made sure all her accusations about her husband were correct, before shooting him. Lucy had to outthink someone to save her own life, however the narrator from "pit and the pendulum" used another form of intelligence. He was put into different torture chambers where his quick thinking saved his life. He only had a few moments before the pendulum cut right threw him, and he quickly thought of an escape route. He got free "with the particles of the oily and spicy viand which now remained, I thoroughly rubbed the bandage wherever I could reach"(Poe,244). This shows the narrators clutch train of thought. Both of the characters used their head as their main weapon while fighting death.
Suspense is a large part of both stories. It makes your heart pound knees quiver, and to want nothing more than to know what is to come next. In "twins" the entire storyline seems unstable. The thought of the husband unknowingly writing the plot to his own death is quite suspenseful in itself. "Don't turn round Lucy"(Wright,216). This quote acts as the climax of the story, until this point the husbands real intent with the plot is unknown. It is very