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The Pit And The Pendulm - Online Term Paper

The Pit And The Pendulm

The movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madena believes that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and that led to the death of his sister. The doctor said she died of fright. They buried her in a tomb below the castle.
As child Dom Madena saw his father torture and kill his father's brother and his own wife. He accused them of adultery. His father didn't torture his mother to death, he buried her alive. Dom Madena thought that he buried his wife alive. Then one night ...

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fainted, and his wife, who never really died, told him that it was all scheme. She and the doctor were having an affair. He chased the doctor and he fell into a pit and died. He stuck his wife in a torture machine out of sight and gagged her.
Then her brother came down. Nicholas seized him and put him on table below a razor sharp pendulum. Right as it was cutting his shirt two servants busted in and threw Nicholas into the pit with the doctor and saved him. This movie, I think anyway, was a very poor interpretation of the short story. In the story none every commits adultery or is buried alive. A man, or woman for all I know, was stuck in a dungeon which he was ...

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Added: 4/25/2011 07:03:54 PM
Submitted By: katrinaa
Category: Film & Theater
Type: Free Paper
Words: 349
Pages: 2

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