The pit and the pendulum
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The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum". It provides background on Poe and contextualizes the story as taking place during the Spanish Inquisition. The summary describes the main character waking up in a dungeon not knowing if he will survive the tortures of the Inquisition, including becoming trapped in a pit with rats and being strapped to a table beneath a slowly descending pendulum.
The pit and the pendulum
- 1. The Pit and the Pendulum By Edgar Allan Poe
- 2. ·This story is written by Edgar Allan Poe. ·It was first published in 1843. ·It`s one of the most shoking stories in horror literature.
- 3. Edgar Allan Poe ·Poe was born in Massachusetts in 1809 and died in 1849. ·His parents died when he was young. ·He was an important author, poet, editor and literary critic of America. ·He studied one year in the University of Virginia and then he was in the army.
- 5. This story happens when the Inquisition tortured and killed a lot of people, until French soldiers invaded Toledo and discovered the prisoners.
- 6. Main character: the man who is in the dungeon because the Inquisition has closed him there. Is very intelligent and he suffered tortures in the story. Inquisition: I’ts a tribunal. They persecuted and tortured physically or psycologically people who were not catholic. French soldier
- 8. “The pit and the pendulum” is a terror story about the tortures of a man who knows he’ll die because of the decision of the Inquisition.
- 9. The story is about one man who is judged by the Inquisition. That man, woke up in a dungeon where there wasn’t any light. He was despair, terrified and so tired. He couldn`t stand up, fell and found a pit which there were a lot of rats. He fell to sleep over and over again. One of the times that he woke up, he was stretched on a table and a pendulum approached to him slowly... What happened to him? Did he die?
- 10. There is a film of this story, to see the trailer click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3a_dW34
- 12. Under my view, this story is very original and transmits to you very well the despair of one person who knows he will die. I recommend this book for people who like mistery and terror genres.