2. ·This story is written by Edgar Allan Poe.
·It was first published in 1843.
·It`s one of the most shoking stories in
horror literature.
3. Edgar Allan Poe
·Poe was born in Massachusetts in 1809 and died in 1849.
·His parents died when he was young.
·He was an important author, poet, editor and literary critic of
America.
·He studied one year in the University of Virginia and then he
was in the army.
4.
5. This story happens when the Inquisition
tortured and killed a lot of people, until
French soldiers invaded Toledo and
discovered the prisoners.
6. Main character: the man who is in the
dungeon because the Inquisition has
closed him there. Is very intelligent and he
suffered tortures in the story.
Inquisition: I’ts a tribunal. They persecuted
and tortured physically or psycologically
people who were not catholic.
French soldier
7.
8. “The pit and the pendulum” is a terror
story about the tortures of a man who
knows he’ll die because of the decision of
the Inquisition.
9. The story is about one man who is judged by the
Inquisition. That man, woke up in a dungeon where
there wasn’t any light. He was despair, terrified and so
tired. He couldn`t stand up, fell and found a pit which
there were a lot of rats. He fell to sleep over and over
again. One of the times that he woke up, he was
stretched on a table and a pendulum approached to him
slowly... What happened to him? Did he die?
10. There is a film of this story, to see the
trailer click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3a_dW34
11.
12. Under my view, this story is very original and
transmits to you very well the despair of one
person who knows he will die. I recommend this
book for people who like mistery and terror
genres.
