Day 5

Poe's Short Stories Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What is the significance of the painting in “The Pit and the Pendulum”?

    The painting in the prison cell in “The Pit and the Pendulum” is of Time, as a personified figure holding the scythe/pendulum. “In one of its panels a very singular figure riveted my whole attention. It was the painted figure of Time as he is commonly represented, save that, in lieu of a scythe, he held what, at a casual glance, I supposed to be the pictured image of a huge pendulum such as we see on antique clocks. There was something, however, in the appearance of this machine which caused me to regard it more attentively. While I gazed directly upward at it (for its position was immediately over my...

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