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The Pit and the Pendulum
by
Edgar Allan Poe
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Themes: The Inexorable Passage of Time and Death
Themes: The Horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and Human Cruelty
Themes: Fear
Themes: Terror
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Plot
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Chamber Dimensions
Discovery of Cell
Escape from Pendulum
Inquisitors
Narrator's Imprisonment
Narrator's Rescue
Pendulum Scene
Resolution
Sentence of Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
Torture by the Inquisition
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Rats
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Fear
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Setting
Spanish Inquisition
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