September 2013 The Pit and the Pendulum There are often many people who are falsely excused every day‚ and are punished for their false accusations. This happened numerous times during the Spanish Inquisition to seize the converts’ wealth and destroy their influence. In “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe shows the falsely accused life of the narrator. The author helps support this main plot line through the using the use of imagery through the symbolism of the Pit‚ the rats‚ and the
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“Pit and the Pendulum Revision” “I shrank back- but the closing walls pressed me resistlessly onward. At length. For my seared and writhing body‚ there was no longer an inch of foot hold on the firm floor of the prison.” Closer and closer I was getting to the pit. I was thinking about everything that has happened. I didn’t want to die. It was too soon for me. Suddenly the walls stopped. I was confused and in shock. I heard a female voice‚ and it was a thick southern accent. She was telling me to
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“The Pit and the Pendulum” Commentary Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”‚ is a short story of the struggled of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death‚ and placed in a dungeon. The narrator‚ who is the prisoner‚ realizes that the dungeon he is placed in is known as the Inquisition. He encounters death multiple times throughout his time in the dungeon. He nearly falls into a large pit‚ almost gets scythed by a pendulum‚ and gets pushed to the brink of the pit by burning walls‚ but merely
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Inquisition was a bleak time where people were accused of being unfaithful to the Christian faith and death was not merely the loss of life but an endless endeavor toward insanity through torture. Edgar Allan Poe uses this instance and condition in "The Pit and the Pendulum." Throughout the story the question of the narrator’s reliability is brought up through his references to madness‚ his suicide attempts‚ and his references to his own death. Through the story‚ the reader sees many events showing the
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Pit and the Pendulum Reader Response Poe’s story is of a person sentenced to death by torture during the Spanish Inquisition. The story is an account of the narrator’s time from sentencing and throughout his journey during incarceration. It’s a tale of hope and despair. A story of one’s mental ability while facing an eminent death. Of this the narrator says‚ ‘It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.’ Unusual for
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