Edgar Allan Poe's Response

Something that has been perfeted to no end can attest very difficult to pull apart. Especially when it has been built to what is meant and translated to flawlessness. What could one who is now progressing have a stand against in determining if this perfected establishment is acurate or false. While reviewing Jeanne M. Malloy’s lexis in her simplifying “A pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, at first glance, it’s a remedy for the audience. If the audience read the origional version, then Malloy’s translation is viewed opon to be that of a savior coming to a reader’s aid. Nonetheless, simply because it is coming from someone with position does not signify it can not be pulled apart. There is always a way to make enhance things. Perfection does not exist even for writers and authors who have the capability to make one think beyond expectation. In her Text, the author tends to make certain ideas present that take a toll on the overall effect of how readers view “A Pit and the Pendulum”. On of them is religion. Apparently, religion plays a key role in this particular work of Poe. An Amazing discovery is the extent to how much God is illustrated in Poe’s text. This reflection reveals that the inquisitors that were present in the selection are priests. Revelations is the key book in the bible emphasised throughout Malloy’s translation. Religion really points out as a stong main idea in the aspect that it sets a notion which contradicts.

Poe was known to have had a drinking problem which was eventually assumed to be the cause of his death. In the final climax of the pit of the pendulum, the narrator is liberated by a hand that grabs him before he falls. In a way, though indirectly, Poe appears to be that man. Should someone have been able to grasp his hand before he fell, death would not have befallen him in such an early state. This in a way emphasizes encouragement of religion. For many individuals, as they hunt every where and still lack to find what it was they were looking for, God becomes their rescuer. However, there are those who deagree with this concept. In Malloy’s tranlation, Hirsch was a presented to not appreciate the conclusion of “A pit and the Pendulum”. This can also correspond with the idea that there were those who did not view Poe in a bright light and that salvation was not menat for him either.

Illustarating only what is believed to be the central idea of Malloy presentation does not just stand on its own. To prove her cause, the use of allusion, allegory and imagery are used to strengthen Malloy’s translation. Imagery, which is strongly presented in “The pit and the Pendulum”, is that of a fallen man. In the eyes of his inquisitors, the protagonist has fallen from grace. Malloy makes a reference to Adam and Eve in this scenario. One can picture, after the sin of Adam and Eve, the two sinners running through the Eden to find cover and hope. Their idea of redemption is concieved in “imagination and heightened consciousness”. No matter how fast or far they ranned, the presence of God was surrounded throughout the entire Eden. Similarily to our selection present, the protagonist runs and desperately searches for a way out and seeks his redemption. However, those who placed him in the pit new what his ebd would be. Even if every obstacle was overcomed, the narrator’s oppressors knew he was trying to survive in a fiery pit all along which was constructed by them, and is their territory. Difference lies with the allusion readers have to make when the narrator is saved. In a way it seems that Adam and Eve were not saved since their time did not include the second coming of christ. The protagonist however, received salvation from the image of a second coming with the general’s hand being that salvation.

There is a setback for readers when Malloy presents an idea of infancy, which conflicts when there is another idea that “mere intellect is in-effectual”. This mention of an infant is in a way a bit insuting. An infant will not be able to escape the pit. Rather tears would have been their way of dealing with the situation present. Children depict innocence, and there was no scenario presented that proved to be within the capacity of a child. There is even a reference of the protagonist being compared to a female because he showed signs of weakness when he realized the fiery pit was close to consuming him. There is a great flaw in saying the narrator in the selection is that of an infant.

It would have taken an interest twist if the narrator of the Poe’s piece was to meet an unexpected end. That would have shifted the entire outcome of the tale. One might make the assumption that after being liberated, nightmare of what the narrator went through would eventually begin to hunt him. Suppose that in reality, the narrator was not a civil human being. Poe could have continues with the effects the pit took on the character. Should he have died, it would also shift the author’s profile on the sense that he was willing to give up on life just like the narrator. Changing a single senario would have evolved entirely the author and the character he himself created. This in a way would have also emphasized the idea that waiting around in a helpless state of a child will cause no aid to come. Determination to change a situatiom would have made the difference.