The story “The Pit and the Pendulum’ is one of Edgar Allen’s most famous stories. He has three adjectives that describe him really well and there is supporting evidence from the story that will confirm it. The three adjectives that describe the character in this story are brave, scared and smart because of his choices he makes in the story and how he reacts to the different situations. The first adjective that describes the character would be brave.
Brave describe this character in the “The Pit and the Pendulum” Because he kept fighting through the pain and suffering in his miserable sell. Then he continued to try and figure out a way to escape his prison that he got thrown into. He was also brave because when the blade was swinging at the …show more content…
He was smart because he thought up of plans to escape the types of tortures they put him through. An example of this would be when he had the rats eat off the ropes that had him surrounded. This was smart because the character had put some of the food his imprisoner’s had given him on the ropes then the rats ate the food and the rope. Then another example is when he had the pendulum cut the rope that was holding him. The quote the author uses that proves he’s smart is “It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry – very smooth, slimy, and cold.” This proves he is smart because he can figure out where he is by feeling around.
The last of these many adjectives that describe the character from the “The Pit and the Pendulum” would be scared or hopeless. He shows his fear by saying that dying in the pit would be better than dying any other way the guards wanted him to die. The quote from the story proves how scared he is “I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair.” This shows that he was scared of dying and he didn’t want to. More examples of him being scared are when he had to go through all of the tortures, while going through these he expressed how scared he
Brave describe this character in the “The Pit and the Pendulum” Because he kept fighting through the pain and suffering in his miserable sell. Then he continued to try and figure out a way to escape his prison that he got thrown into. He was also brave because when the blade was swinging at the …show more content…
He was smart because he thought up of plans to escape the types of tortures they put him through. An example of this would be when he had the rats eat off the ropes that had him surrounded. This was smart because the character had put some of the food his imprisoner’s had given him on the ropes then the rats ate the food and the rope. Then another example is when he had the pendulum cut the rope that was holding him. The quote the author uses that proves he’s smart is “It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry – very smooth, slimy, and cold.” This proves he is smart because he can figure out where he is by feeling around.
The last of these many adjectives that describe the character from the “The Pit and the Pendulum” would be scared or hopeless. He shows his fear by saying that dying in the pit would be better than dying any other way the guards wanted him to die. The quote from the story proves how scared he is “I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair.” This shows that he was scared of dying and he didn’t want to. More examples of him being scared are when he had to go through all of the tortures, while going through these he expressed how scared he