Edgar allan poe's the pit and the pendulum
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“The pit and the pendulum”
by Edgar Allan Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Ilustration (Fragment) by A. E. D
Ailin L. Olivares
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(1842)
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for
1843
Genre: Psychological horror
Spatial organisation: Pendulum-like
Setting: A cell in Toledo
Narrator: First person protagonist
Barbier, J.(2012)
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Epilogue and the Jacobin Club
Impiatortorumlongas hic turba furorsSanguinisinnocui, non satiata, aluit.
Sospitenunc patria, fractonuncfunerisantro,
Mors ubidirafuit vita salusque patent.
[Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the
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Judgement“At first they wore the aspect of
charity, and seemed white slender angels who would save me: but then all at once there
came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and (…) the angel forms became meaningless
spectres, with heads of flame, and I saw that from them there
would be no help.”NIJMI3SKIJLL
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“In the centre yawned the circular pit from whose jaws I had escaped; but it was the only one in the dungeon.”
Sin/ Falling
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“THE PIT, typical of hell, and regarded by rumour as the Ultima Thule of all
their punishments”.
Hell
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God pardoning
the damned
The power of Human resolve
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ROMANTICISM (The American Renaissance)
Characteristics of the movement present in
the story
Strangement. Beauty.The individual.Portrayal of experiences. Psychological concern. Themes.
Juarez Ricci. (2008)
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