The Pit and the Pendulum

to feeling mentally burdened and troubled. Chris did not want to go to Law school like his parents wanted for him and therefore returned to an even more isolated state outside of his home and disappeared. Explored in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the narrator displays oppression while imprisoned in a chamber by: “Like a razor also it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above. It was appended to a weighty rod of brass, and the whole…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were two traveling actors from an English theatrical family. Both of them died before Poe was three years old, which resulted in him and his two siblings living in foster care. Although not legally adopted, Poe was taken in by a Scottish tobacco exporter, John Allan. He spent most of his early life with the Allan family, besides a five-year time span when he traveled to England to attend the Manor House School.…

known work is “The Raven” which he wrote in 1845. Most of his writings were influenced by his rough childhood. His dad left his family when Poe was young and his mom died when Poe was three (Grubbs). Some of Poe’s other famous works are “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart." In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven” he uses context, symbols, forms and devices, and personification to show how to display emotion through writing. In “The Raven” Poe uses a lot of types of context…

American literature but also international literature. Together with Washington Irvin and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe was among the first writers to come up with a genre that involved both horror and fiction. His stories such as The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum and poems such as Raven distinguished him from the other writers of his time (Poetry Foundation, 2015). He is also regarded as one of the pioneer critics to primarily focus on the impact of structure and style in any given literary…

she arranges a lobotomy for McMurphy. Nurse Ratched willingly risks McMurphy’s life to return her ward back to normal. She had grown tired of McMurphy’s antics, so risked everything to make it stop, to make her life easier.The story of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” by Edgar Allen Poe, shows that humankind has been risking the lives of others to achieve a goal for centuries. The Spanish took the narrator of this story and tortured him in a dark room, all because he refused to convert to a different…

Poe’s Usher Edgar Allen Poe is known for his Gothic and macabre stories. I chose The Fall of the House of Usher because it is not one of his best known stories or one I had read before. The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, Cask of Amontillado, and Pit and the Pendulum are all read at different times in high school, but I had never read Usher. In the classic, dreary Poe fashion, the story begins with a narrative point of view in the story. For most of his stories the narrator tells the story in first…

It uses the basic framework of Romanticism, but is otherwise quite different. They still believe that God is an important part of life and must be wanted, but with the Darks, there is darker light involved. In Poe’s work, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” the protagonist is a recusant, or someone who speaks out against the Christian Church. He is being punished for his actions in a room full of mysterious surprises. This supports the sinister side of spirituality because it shows that not…

When the genre of horror was first introduced, it used the mind against itself instead of gory, jump scares that only lasted for a little while. The use of death and dying is a common idea that horror writers use to achieve the thrills they want their readers to feel. Edgar Allan Poe and J.S. LeFanu are two authors who have mastered the art of using the mind against itself in their horror stories. Writing in the same era, they both use the same techniques but with differing views on how the…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” was an interesting tale of a woman and her husband, living in a new home, ending with the wife eventually going mad. As the wife continues to spend days upon days in their bedroom, she cannot seem to shake the eerie, ugly feeling the yellow wallpaper that is upon the walls seems to bring. This tale is creepy and horrific turning more demonic as you keep reading. At the end she rips up the wallpaper, sending the “woman” she kept seeing trapped in them, free. The woman seems…

Physiognomy of Crime. Poe used a unique grotesque inventiveness in his writings. Such stories include, “The Fall of the House of Usher” in which penetrating gloominess in the atmosphere is accented equally with plot and characterization. “The Pit and the Pendulum,” is a spine-tingling tale of cruelty and torture. “The Tell-Tale Heart” in which a crazed murderer is subconsciously haunted into confessing his guilt. Also, “The Cask of Amontillado” which is an eerie tale of revenge. Poe has grown…