Tryten PalmerPeriod - 1October 1, 2015The Pit and The Pendulum Theme Essay:The theme, you don't know life until you have faced death, is developed throughfigurative language, setting, and diction in the the short story,The Pit and the Pendulum, byEdgar Allen Poe. From the very beginning to the absolute end, death is on the narrator's mind.Not only do these make us ponder death, but so do the words Poe uses to give his characterlife. As the character manages to to escape the doom of the pit, everyone is susceptible to beingsliced to death by time or the pendulum. Yet the character again is blessed with luck with afrench general pricks from the burning hands of death in the nick of time.Trysten PalmerPeriod - 1October 1, 2015The Pit and The Pendulum Theme Essay:The theme, you don't know life until you have faced death, is developed through figurativelanguage, setting, and diction in the short story,The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allen Poe. From thevery beginning to the absolute end, death is on the narrator's mind. Not only do these make us ponder
