In an abrupt and contrived ending, while the prisoner stands on the edge of the dreadful pit, the French army storms Toledo and rescues him from the murderous hands of the Inquisition. It is here that the carefully crafted, frightening, and suspenseful tale falls fl at.
The hot iron walls of his dungeon begin to close in, forcing him ever closer to the frightening pit. Seconds before he is severed in half, rats chew through his ropes and the prisoner narrowly escapes death. It is not long before he perceives an ominous, razor-edged pendulum swinging back and forth above his body, slowly descending toward his chest. He then blacks out again, and upon awakening he discovers that he has been tied down.
In groping his way around, the prisoner nearly falls into a deep, rat-infested pit. Once the prisoner discovers that he is not in a tomb, he proceeds to grope his way around the dungeon to discover his surroundings. His first impression is that he has been buried alive. The main character, a prisoner condemned to death by the Inquisition in Spain, awakens to find himself in a chamber of utter darkness. The story is a terrifying tale of suspense in which Poe captures the horrors of confinement and torture. “The Pit and the Pendulum” first appeared in Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of short stories The Gift in 1843. Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum
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