Work Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Pit and the Pendulum”. Books: Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. John Ockerbloum.
18 Sept. 2008. EServer. 28 Oct. 2008. http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poe.
“The Pit and the Pendulum” Style Analysis
The creative Edgar Allan Poe is renowned for his omniscient writing style which captures his readers through two elements – fear and death. This delinquent duo attacks the reader’s mind by means of placing them in the shoe’s of the fearful protagonist which is always doomed with a dreadful destiny. Though this style, the reader feels a sense of horror and death because mentally unstable and scared character is the vehicle that Poe uses panic the audience. This macabre influences the central character “The Pit and the Pendulum”, short story revolves around a madman. Utilizing conflicting symbolism and unusually hopeful diction, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit the Pendulum" clearly paints the insane character of the narrator.
The profound symbolism expresses how the narrator of the story does not linger in despondency and stay in complete loss. The narrator responds quickly to save himself even though, he uses fetid rats. This illogical decision is a result of the narrator’s lunacy. When the narrator is locked down in the presence of the pendulum in his huge prison cell and is almost ready to meet his end, he desperately summons the dirty rats to free him, “With painful effort I outstretched my left arm as far as my bonds permitted, and took possession of the small remnant which had been spared me by the rats. As I put a portion of it within my lips, there rushed to my mind a half formed thoug ...