“The pit and the pendulum”

by Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Ilustration (Fragment) by A. E. D

Ailin L. Olivares

(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

“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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