The Pit And The Pendulum Literary Analysis

In The Short Story “The Pit and The Pendulum” Edgar Allan Poe uses literary techniques to make the narrator unreliable. Boom! The narrator hits the floor and is knocked unconscious. The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition when the Spanish are capturing everybody, and forcing them to become christian. If they resisted, they would be tortured until the converted or gruesomely killed. The narrator proves himself unreliable by swooning or fainting multiple times throughout the story waking up in a confused state of mind. In addition, the narrator was drugged after drinking and eating what seemed to be water and some meat. Lastly, he shows himself unreliable by always being in a panic state of mind, this means that we don't know if things are actually happening or if he is just exaggerating everything. Through the story pass uses a variety of literary techniques to tie all of the scenes together. Thus saying, Poe uses literary techniques to make the narrator in “The Pit and The Pendulum” an unreliable character.
The narrator in the story proves he is unreliable by swooning or passing out throughout the story. In the story the narrator says “The truth at length flashed upon me. In my first attempt at exploration I had counted fifty-two

The narrator is proved unreliable when Poe uses imagery to show how he passes out leaving gaps of time that we don't know what is happening. He then shows that the narrator is unreliable by making allusions when the narrator was drugged allowing the narrator to be feed the reader false information because he was poisoned and didn't know what was going on. Lastly Poe again uses imagery to cast a scene where the narrator was in such a state of panic that it would make him unreliable. In conclusion, Edgar Allan Poe uses literary techniques to make the narrator in “The Pit and the Pendulum”