“the pit and the pendulum” Edgar Allan Poe.pdf - Cornell...

Cornell notes “the pit and the pendulum”
Edgar Allan Poe
Setting:
-1478-1834
-a dungeon in Toledo, Spain
-during the spanish inquisition
-if you did not follow the teachings of the catholic church, you were tortured or executed
-you were tortured less if you named others who were “not following the teachings”
Point of view
-first person narrative
-purposes:
1. We share immediately in the narrator’s experience and feelings
2. We know only what the narrator knows
3. Creates a sense of intimacy
4. It limits the reader’s knowledge