Plagiarism Checker Proof - The Pit and The Pendulum

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Western Mindanao State University
College of Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
ANALYSIS PAPER ON THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
Submitted by:
Anthony Bryan A. Jupuri
Submitted to:
Prof. Keynard L. Ponce
December 18, 2020
Introduction
The story starts when at the time of the Catholic Inquisition; the narrator of "Pit and Pendulum" is sentenced to death.
During a dream-like state, the narrator listens to his sentence, seeing the sinister movement of the lips of the judges
and thus the black drapes swaying. With a shock-like sensation, he is overwhelmed and the people around him turn
into angel-like ghosts. His senses cut out then. He'll faint. The narrator of 'Pit and Pendulum' tries to describe the
occasional swoon. It is not like sleep or death, it has its own peculiar sensations that take place in two steps, the return
of the spirit first, then of the body. He assumes that if during the reawakening of the body one can recall the primary
point, then the gulf that the one that fainted has fallen into are going to be remembered as the details of a dream. He
imagines that it's the failure to remember this dream that pushes many men into insanity. He attempts to recall his own
descent into this dream world as the Pit and Pendulum narrator's body awakens, and imagines silent figures taking him
into darkness and then a horrible stillness as they pause. Then, sound and motion return, and the narrator returns to
consciousness and recalls the trial's specifics. He lies still, afraid to open his eyes, unsure of what condition he is in. His
greatest fear is realized; when he opens his eyes, he can see nothing, everything is pitching black.
Body
To grasp Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, one needs to understand the prism of American romanticism.
This literary lens focuses on liberties, myths, and creativity for individuals. It highlights the idea of there being a journey
in the story. This lens also values feelings over reason. This short story shows that lens by leaving most of the plot up
to the reader's imagination. It gives vague details and leaves the reader in charge of what the ending could be. To most
readers, because of how the narrator communicates his thoughts, the whole story seems to be a hallucination. None of
this appears possible. He thinks of angels he sees and "leaving him" with his senses (Poe). This is also a way of
expressing that someone is going nuts. He speaks a lot about his feelings but never mentions what is happening. My
classmates thought that there was some damage to the character and started hallucinating because of tremendous
blood loss, but I beg to differ. The Spanish inquisition was mentioned in the last few lines, a historical event that even
occurred to many people. Going along with this theory, I feel that the main character was most definitely caught as part
of the inquisition because of the image on the novel's front page. I assume he was then put under a pendulum after
being captured and tortured and bound to a piece of wood while lying on his back. The only catch is that there was a
blade on it for the pendulum. He was cutting slowly into the flesh of his shoulders. "Within three inches of my breast, it
vibrated! This torture could lead to a lot of blood loss, leading to hallucinations that related the plot loosely but was still
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very arbitrary.
He may have clarified hit settings in ways that made sense to him, but not to the reader because he was having trouble
concentrating on real life. The story encourages readers to create their plots, just like I did, because of the vague
details. The character conveyed being stuck in some form of prison, "I struggled to breathe" at the plot's beginning. The
strength of the darkness seemed to oppress and stickie next. Intolerably close was the feeling I thrust my arms violently
over and around me in all directions. I felt nothing, but I was afraid to move a step, lest the walls of a tomb could
impede me. As the tale progresses, he grips the truth better and can clarify where "The room has been square" is
located. I've seen that two of the iron angles are now acute—two, thus, obtuse. "Throughout the story, he expresses
this idea that food appeared every time he woke up, "I found a load and a pitcher of water beside me." I was too
exhausted to reflect on this situation, but ate and drank with avidity." I figured the food might have been dosed with
some drug, making it more out of it because the whole story's plot seems so confusing.
All in all, I enjoyed how the American romanticism lens and all facets of it were presented in this novel, such as being
influenced by myths (like the Spanish Inquisition that was not believed to be confirmed), the settings are generally
supernatural (like the jail in which he was placed). There is a journey shown in the story somehow (figuring out if the
character survived or not). Reading the Pit and The Pendulum encouraged me to explore new ideas and develop my
interpretation of the plot that reads me in and makes me more wrapped up in the story. That allows me to encounter the
American lens of romanticism.
Conclusion
When he gets up, the pendulum retracts to the ceiling, and he concludes that folks must watch his every move. After
that the prison walls heat up and start rolling into the pit. The narrator learns that the enclosing walls would drive him
into the pit, an escape that would also mean his death.
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