5/19/2023 0 Comments The pit and the pendulum story![]() Poe imagines a series of terrifying events leading up to that conclusion. ![]() The great number of instruments of torture, especially the instruments to stretch the limbs, and the drop baths, which cause a lingering death, excited horror, even in the minds of soldiers hardened in the field of battle.” Poe’s story ends with Lasalle entering the Palace of the Inquisition and rescuing one of the prisoners. He may have been inspired by a paragraph in Thomas Dick’s Philosophy of Religion (1825): “On entry of the French into Toldeo during the late Peninsular War, General Lasalle visited the Palace of the Inquisition. ![]() Poe sets this story in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition. One example is “The Pit and the Pendulum,” which tells of the story of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, an infamous program of trials in which the judges were allowed to use torture to extract confessions from the accused. ![]() Some of Poe’s most popular tales of terror were inspired by true events. ![]()
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