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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This project is based on the short story “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe. The story describes a prisoner being tied up on the floor with a pendulum shaped like a crescent razor descending towards him. In this story the author describes that the pendulum’s ‘sweep was brief and of course slow’, but then as the pendulum descended downwards, ‘the sweep...had increased by nearly a yard...its velocity also was much greater’, until it covered a ‘terrifically wide sweep

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    Does beauty and ugliness define a person’s character. Death by Scrabble is about a man plotting to kill his wife. The Pit and The Pendulum is about a man that is being tortured by inquisitors. In Death By Scrabble, the author manipulates the text to create an ironic ending. In The Pit and The Pendulum, the author arranges the text to emphasize the symbolism of the story. Both authors, however use aesthetic language to accomplish their purpose. Death by Scrabble has an ironic ending. Irony

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    The Pit and the Pendulum Character Analysis Essay Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum uses horror and suspicion to build up not only the storyline, but the persona of the narrator in which is also the prisoner. The characteristics of the prisoner ties within the story to create trippy feelings of fear and unassertiveness of whether or not he is truly safe. From the trials that the prisoner has faced, his characteristic of resourcefulness, pessimistic, and terror are revealed and play

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    Poe shows an apocalyptic and evil theme in “The Pit and the Pendulum”. Within the story the main character, who is also the narrator, captured by the Spanish Inquisition, falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, and sentenced to death. The narrator is placed in front of terrifying, unforgivable judges. Unable to understand what their saying and terrified of the verdict, he passes out. The story actually describes it as, " Though he lives on the. brink of the pit, on the very verge

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    “The Pit And The Pendulum” Is A True Horror Story Stephen King once said, “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Bram Stroker, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Edgar Allan Poe may have been a few of the greatest authors of horror to ever live. Out of all of these authors, Poe may have written the most freighting tales. All of his stories are considered horror, but some of them have more horrific qualities than others. “The Pit And The Pendulum” is one of Poe’s most famous works

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    experience in Reich's Pendulum Music is completely theatrical. From the visual aspect, four performers pull back strings where are the microphones attached at the end, then exert a little force to let the pendulums move. In terms of pendulum through physics, a simple pendulum is a simple harmonic motion, which can produce a natural frequency. When the pendulum fully stops due to gravity, it rests at equilibrium point in static motion, and it is the end of the motion. In Pendulum

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    melancholy content. “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, one of the most renowned gothic authors, is a prime example of gothic literature. In the tale, the narrator is arrested and imprisoned for an unknown crime by supporters of the Inquisition in Spain. Throughout the story, his captors attempt to brutally kill him. However, he narrowly escapes death and is rescued by French troops, who have secured the prison. This bone-chilling

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    Did you ever read or saw the story or movie of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe? In this essay you will learn the similarities and differences between the text and the move of the pit and the pendulum. One teaser of a similarity in both the text and the movie is at the end the guy gets saved. Here’s a difference teaser is in the movie he gets saved by random people and in the text he gets saved by the army. In my next paragraph I’m going to tell you some more similarities. There are

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    In the case of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation, however, the hostage manages to break free from the binds and cheat death, surviving what could have been a slow and painful decease. Through their differences in setting and effective characterization, it’s evident that the survival from torture was more predictable in the film. The setting is an essential component in any story or film. For “The Pit and the Pendulum”, the audience is taken to two separate

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    Dear, Pendulum I feel ill of this whole situation, as all this to me seems unfair. These people unrightfully put me in this dark torture cell with you. Now I know it’s your job to kill me by slicing through my my flesh and bone with slices back and forth. But i still see this as unfair. The Catholic Church put me in here because i went against their beliefs of the Inquisition with Spain. I’m confused because most Inquisition victims get a public auto-da-fe “act of faith”. They get an execution

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