Question

The following question refers to “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe. How does the narrator react to the “dread sentence of death” handed down to him? He blacks out. He tries to escape. He yells at the judge. He laughs maniacally.

Answer 1

He blacks out or faints.

Answer 2

Answer:

He blacks out.

Explanation:

In this famous story by Edgar Allan Poe, one of his darkest and most astonishing pieces, the narrator first faces a somber trial in which he is condemned to death, a sentence that makes him black out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in some sort of jail cell where he will meet various forms of torture that keep the reader on his toes at all times in the most fascinating way possible.