Compare And Contrast The Pit And The Pendulum

Jonah Rivera
Professor Curtis-Cummins
ENG1036
16 April 2018 Death and Fear
Fear and death are things we fear as a person. Nobody wants to experience these. Fear is what expresses death. Death could be associated with fear itself. In the poem, Because I could not stop for Death, the character, Death, in the form of a suitor, stops to pick up the main protagonist in a horse carriage. As they pass a town, they see children playing around and the setting sun. The story ended with the protagonist with Death as they set off in the distance. The Pit and the Pendulum, the narrator relates how he was tortured and imprisoned. He was placed in a cell. He was then strapped to a table as a pendulum swung back and forth above him. He narrowly escaped with his life. Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Junot Diaz all share a theme of fear and death in the works, The Pit …show more content…
Famous for his writing, he depicts death as a confusion of state of the mind and destroys common logic. For example, in the short story, at the very beginning of the story, Diaz starts off, “I was sick—sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me” (246). Poe begins the Pit and the Pendulum with the protagonist sick and his senses were non-sufficient. Common sense was non-existent in the story. This relates to Emily Dickinson’s poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, there stanza that quotes, “We slowly drove – He knew no haste--And I had put away--My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility”. This quote shows the similarities. Both protagonists are powerless against death. They surrendered their most precious belongings such as their senses and their

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