Write a compare and contrast essay explaining how Poe drew upon the history of the Inquisition in his short story “The Pit and t
he Pendulum." The essay should address the following points: How accurate is Poe’s account of the Inquisition?
How is the Inquisition appropriate for the genre of horror?
How important is the history of Inquisition to Poe’s short story?
The Inquisition is the historical context that frames Poe’s short story.
Explanation:
The unnamed narrator has been sentenced to death and relates his violent experience, which despite being a fictional account of an unlikely event, it´s an accurate depiction of how violent the Inquisition was. In this sense, Inquisition is a great subject or setting for the genre of horror, given its explicitly violent events, which Poe enhances to conceive a suspenseful story, with only an implicit political agenda to condemn the Inquisition.
I think its acurate cause he did live it and then write about it so i would say accurate. the Inquisition is on the line of a horor story because poes story is telling you people where punished and killed. poes story is a peice of history it explains the Inquisition.The unnamed narrator has been sentenced to death and relates his violent experience, which despite being a fictional account of an unlikely event, it´s an accurate depiction of how violent the Inquisition was. In this sense, Inquisition is a great subject or setting for the genre of horror, given its explicitly violent events, which Poe enhances to conceive a suspenseful story, with only an implicit political agenda to condemn the Inquisition.
