Point of View in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨
Edgar Allen Poe's first person narrator in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ is a strong survivor but being in captivity is driving him insane. In first person the readers become the strong survivor, that is the unreliable prisoner of Poe's famous short story and they get a deeper, and more visceral experience because of it. In first person point of view the reader sees the story through the eyes of the narrator, their view and interpretation of the events. The reader gets a story full of memories and sensory experiences that only first person can contain.
It's important to note that we are hearing the story in retrospect. The man, having survived his awful ordel is now writing it down. If it was being told while still in the situation the story might not sound so good. We would be reading much more screaming and cries for help. In this point of view we experience …show more content…
Being in the head of the prisoner makes the story interesting because we get the good sensory details and first hand experience of seeing the pendulum and feeling the pain and torture he feels. Without feeling, hearing, and seeing the things the unknown narrator is we lose what the whole short story is about.
Edgar Allen Poe choosing to tell ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ in first person made the readers become a strong survivor, that is the prisoner of Poe's famous short story. The reader gets a deeper, and more visceral experience because of this. From any other pov we would of gotten the facts, but we would lose the emotions and thinking which the narrator shares with us. Even an omniscient narrator would not have given us the same effect as a narrator who is telling his own story. The events in the story are horrific and they are made even more so as we experience them through the eyes, ears, and mind of the
Edgar Allen Poe's first person narrator in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ is a strong survivor but being in captivity is driving him insane. In first person the readers become the strong survivor, that is the unreliable prisoner of Poe's famous short story and they get a deeper, and more visceral experience because of it. In first person point of view the reader sees the story through the eyes of the narrator, their view and interpretation of the events. The reader gets a story full of memories and sensory experiences that only first person can contain.
It's important to note that we are hearing the story in retrospect. The man, having survived his awful ordel is now writing it down. If it was being told while still in the situation the story might not sound so good. We would be reading much more screaming and cries for help. In this point of view we experience …show more content…
Being in the head of the prisoner makes the story interesting because we get the good sensory details and first hand experience of seeing the pendulum and feeling the pain and torture he feels. Without feeling, hearing, and seeing the things the unknown narrator is we lose what the whole short story is about.
Edgar Allen Poe choosing to tell ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ in first person made the readers become a strong survivor, that is the prisoner of Poe's famous short story. The reader gets a deeper, and more visceral experience because of this. From any other pov we would of gotten the facts, but we would lose the emotions and thinking which the narrator shares with us. Even an omniscient narrator would not have given us the same effect as a narrator who is telling his own story. The events in the story are horrific and they are made even more so as we experience them through the eyes, ears, and mind of the