Edgar Allan Poe
Submitted by Ghosts09 on March 24, 2009
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum (1843)
Setting
The entire story takes place inside (a pit or) a prison cell into which the narrator of the story, the story’s only visible character, has been thrown. Although the pit is the immediate setting of the story, I believe that the broader historical context (may be)/ is the Spanish Inquisition during the sixteenth century, when the Inquisition, a court of the Roman Catholic Church, persecuted heretics, so-called witches, and members of other religions with torture and execution.
In the story there is no indication on what the unidentified narrator and central character of the story has done to deserve the...
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