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The story The Pit and the Pendulum (1840) tells of the struggle between inhuman cruelty and human reason. The plot resembles a slow motion film. Edgar Poe's task is to analyse human behaviour in the moment of torture. A man is condemned. At the moment the death sentence was announced, he lost consciousness. The convict felt in the pitch black of the crypt, he was in fear. Edgar Allan Poe depicted waiting in the throes of death as the most sophisticated form of torture. The victim was lying at the bottom of the crypt, bound hand and foot, and an ominous pendulum, an axe, hung above his head on the ceiling. The death aroused horror. However, the writer saw his task as showing the growth of the power of the human mind in the fight against fear. In this story, the hero was snatched from the hands of the Inquisition by the troops of the victorious army.

The Performer: Roman Molodiy
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds