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班级：英教五班 姓名：吕秀雅 学号：2011061157 What do you think when you face death? The Author The background of The Pit and The Pendulum The Plot The Question The Answer Edgar Allan Poe (1809~1849) Edgar Allan Poe Poet, editor, critic, first writer of the detective story, writer of fiction, a pioneer in poetic and fictional techniques Life story: disastrous Artistic principles 1809–49, American poet, short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story. background The story is based on the Spanish Inquisition trial, imprisonment as a background activity, first-person protagonist is influenced by religious persecution of heretics to the court, the novel describes the harsh interrogation included torture when nameless fear. 故事是以西班牙宗教法庭的审判、监禁活动为背景的，第一人称主人公是受到宗教法庭迫害的异端人士，小说主要描写其面临严酷审讯包括莫名刑具时的恐怖心理。 Background of “The Pit and the Pendulum The Spanish Inquisition is famous for the cruel treatment of heretics who. For the sake of religious judges were confiscated and property, their way of living is considered heretical beliefs create several persons. Due to the stake and ended his life than in Castle Rock Cave slowly died mad fear even better, many innocent prisoner on a variety of charges to admit, was sentenced to crime of heretical beliefs and early misery. These people dont know his name, shut up and dont know the witness who, not with relatives, not a lawyer. 《陷坑与钟摆》的写作背景 西班牙宗教法庭以残酷的处理异端人士而出名。宗教审判官为了贪图被没收而来的财产，他们的谋生方式就是认为的制造出几个异端邪说者。由于在火刑柱上了却残生比在岩石城堡的黑洞里缓慢发疯而死的恐惧还要好受一些，许多无辜的囚犯便大包大揽承认各种罪名，以期被判处异端邪说罪而早日脱离苦海。这些平民不知道自己的罪名，关起来的时候也不知道证人是谁，不许与亲属联系，不许请律师