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Essay Galaxy - The Pit And The Pendulum The Pit And The Pendulum

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a story about one man's struggle against death (3) and how this battle (4) affects his psyche. Edgar (5) Allan Poe, when writing “The Pit and the Pendulum,”(6) included every macabre detail that life in the dungeon involved. The horror of Poe's dungeon is the isolation from all things which used to make life worth living. Isolation from all of one's life is horrible, but the human aspect of this solitude is the worst part;(7) “The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum...” (Poe 1(8)).(9) This simple statement shows that the narrator holds (10) no bond whatsoever to his captors, but that they are human. Poe equates these captors to fates, and they (11) intend nothing but the worst for their prisoner (Thompson 171(12)). A description of the inqu....

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