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Edgar Allen Poe's " The Pit and the Pendulum" presents the narrator as valid, but also unreliable. The narrator is valid because his story relates to the history of the Spanish Inquisition but unreliable because of his mental state.
In respect to this, what happened to the narrator in The Pit and the Pendulum?
The Pit and the Pendulum. Like many of Poe's stories, “The Pit and the Pendulum” is a dramatic monologue. Sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the imprisoned narrator finds himself in absolute darkness, in danger of falling to his death into a pit in the centre of the cell.
Also asked, what is the narrator describing in The Pit and the Pendulum?
The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.
The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a prisoner who is being tortured and tormented as part of the Spanish Inquisition. He tells us that he is in a room, in the dark, and he is obviously being watched by his inquisitors.