Describe the chronology of the prisoner's ever-changing torture chamber, starting with pitch-black, when he uses a piece of his
robe as a marker to assess its perimeter, all the way to its shrunken, molten form before his rescue. or
Why does Poe offer disjointed historical references, leading us to believe the prisoner is being tortured during the Spanish Inquisition (started in the 1470s), when the reference to the Jacobin Club and General Lasalle's rescue would have been during the Napoleonic wars, no earlier than the 1790s?
