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matrenka [14]
3 years ago
7

Read the selection below from the short story “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the question that follows

. Amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. I rushed to its deadly brink. I threw my straining vision below. The glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses. Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what I saw. At length it forced—it wrestled its way into my soul—it burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. O for a voice to speak!—oh, horror!—oh, any horror but this! With a shriek I rushed from the margin and buried my face in my hands—weeping bitterly. How is the madness of the narrator portrayed in the passage above?
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1 answer:
jeka57 [31]3 years ago
3 0

Characterization of the narrator and illustration of the setting are strong here, though learning more about the narrator--his limited courage to enter the unknown, but his abject fear at what is revealed-- tells a lot about HIM as a complex human being and prepares the reader for how he will cope with what comes next.




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