An anaylisis of the "Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar allan Poe.

The storie is set in Spain. A poor man is being sentenced to death. The man doesen't even question his innocence. This maybe because the Spanish torchered those who did not to admit to crimes, even if they didn't commit them.
The man is condemed to darkness. Darkness evokes feelings of anxiety, but under these circumstances I would think absolute terror. The tomb is dark and only by an accident does the cictum escape the pit and certain death. He searched for a rock in order to estimate the depths, which he just avoided.
The prisoner wakes only to realize that he is strapped onto a boa…