The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe Essay -- Pit and the Pendu

In Edgar Allan Poes short base The Pit and the Pendulum, written 1843, and using the anguish of imminent decease as the means of causing the nerves to quiver (Edgar Allan Poe, 2015), he takes the reader into the instinct of a man who is tortured by various means by nigh unknown person or persons for reasons that are not given. The themes of death and time are portrayed strongly in this story and seduce a sense of anxiety and uncertainty. The first- person narration, in which the I body unnamed, causes the reader to identify with the protagonist (Myers 1922). I feel that the narrator remain unnamed for the reason of not giving information that would further throw out of kilter the reader from the details and emotions of the pit itself, and not to be biased in any way. Most of the story takes place inside a emblem of prison cell that the narrator, who is the only prisoner, was placed in after some kind of trial. Because the amount of consciousness that the narrator has c omes and goes, his seemingly dreamlike situate hinders his ability to make accurate judgements, comprehend his situation, and decide how to best set up out of his ever-changing torturous environment. Through the narrators near hopeless states of madness and his shimmering rays of hope and decision making, the reader feels compelled to understand how the narrator got into this pit and how he would ever be able to be reposition given that his tormentors are ever vigilant and always prepared to set about a new device to try to end the narrators life. When the narrator discusses how the unconscious mind provides a glimpse into the gulf beyond, this shows how Poe provide try to explain how the imagination can work, and how it can interact with perspicacious thought processes of... ... reader much to fill in thus helping to create great suspense and harboring many questions about the Inquisition and the iniquity within the minds of man. Works Cited Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloo ms Major Short humbug Writers. Broomall , PA Chealsea House Publishers, 1999. Edgar Allan Poe. Wikipedia Web. 15 may 2015.http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_PoePoe, Edgar Allan, The Pit and the Pendulum. Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. unsanded York . Random House, Inc. Sep. 1975. 246-57 Hoffman, Daniel. Edgar Allan Poe the artist of the beautiful. The American Poetry Review v. 24. Nov./Dec. 1995. Web. 15 May 2015.http//connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/9511301401/edgar-allan-poe-artist-beautiful Myers, Eunice. The Pit and the Pendulum. Ed. Frank N. Magill . Vol 4. Pasadena , CA Salem Press, 1986. 6 vols.