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Question:
Read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” You may have read this story in a lesson in the unit. If you did, take some time to review the story. If you have not read it, read it now. As you read the story, take notes on the following points:
the circumstances of the narrator’s imprisonment
the condition of the narrator’s prison
the narrator’s reaction to his prison and torture
historical references or allusions that appear in the story
My answer:
"The Pit and the Pendulum" tells a story about a man who was punished to death by the sponge institution even though he is not sure about what is reality and illusion, he feels like he is punished to death. He felt shocked, confused and fearful for the sentence he got and what will happen in the future.
The man describes the mental fear that has passed him, sounds, images, bruises, and mental confusion that appeared around him. The prison is a dark and spooky place.
During the torture section, the man is tied under a pendulum that has a very sharp blade. The pendulum swings side to side very slowly, but he realizes that as time passes, the pendulum goes down more and more, cutting his chest slowly. The man somehow gets free from the ropes, but then realizes that the walls are coming together, making the man have no choice but to jump into the well built in the middle of his prison.
The story shows that these are the methods of torture that Spanish Institution used to kill their victims slowly.wer: