We, the audience, from the way that the narrator describes his reaction to the sentence, learn that the narrator is faint, and that he is passing in and out of consciousness. In the beginning, it says “the voices seemed merged in one dreamy intermediate hum” (Poe, 1). Evidence, that our narrator is in a dream-like state, which is later explain as unconsciousness.
The narrator might feel that he must find out about his surroundings because he wants to find a way out, and it’s a compulsive human thing that if you’re trapped, you look for a way out. If you don’t know where you are, you try to figure it out. etc.
The narrator associates a drowning death with the pit. The pit might put him in such a state of terror because he doesn’t actually know
The narrator might feel that he must find out about his surroundings because he wants to find a way out, and it’s a compulsive human thing that if you’re trapped, you look for a way out. If you don’t know where you are, you try to figure it out. etc.
The narrator associates a drowning death with the pit. The pit might put him in such a state of terror because he doesn’t actually know