The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator is rescued from his prison by the rats in his prison cell. The narrator is sentenced to death in an era where the most heinous tortures are thought up. His captors keep him drugged by putting a sedative in his water. Then they bind him with bandages from head to toe and place a huge razor sharp pendulum over him. As the pendulum swings back and forth, it moves closer and closer to him, ready to slice him in half. There are rats running around his cell. His captors have also placed spicy food nearby for him to eat. He panics at first but then gathers his thoughts and smears the bandages with the food. The rats run over him and chew through the bandages.
B. He turns up its nest with the plow.
In this passage the speaker says you, the mouse, saw the empty fields and with winter coming decided to make a home in them underneath the cold winds. Then crash! The plow blade cut through your house. In this passage the speaker is plowing his field to get it ready to lay fallow for winter when he turns out the mouse from it's house.
Oral tradition is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down. This includes historical and cultural traditions, literature and law. Explore some oral tradition examples like legends, proverbs, folktales, and customs.
Answer:
We need to see the paragraphs to be able to answer the question.
Explanation:
The correct answer is "the individual against society"
This is a theme that occurs on many occasions as romantic writers wanted to break free of the bonds of the society and live their lives based not on common sense, but on what their hearts truly want. Such a writer was Shelly, a British poet, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist.
