PHQ-Nickname:
LordAsriel
Halfquake:
Garbage Fort
Level:
17
Total kills:
378,946
Birthday:
May 20th 1991
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| Mood: | sadistic |
| Type: | Article |
| Added: | April 14th 2006, 18:51:49 |
| Visits: | 1634 |
| Rating: | 3.5/5 (Votes: 2) |
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Description:
 A commentary about The Pit and the Pendulum, on the basis of its relation with the Sadism expressed by Muddasheep, Blackjack and Jazzymike in Half-Quake and later, from a more accurate point of view, in Half-Quake Amen. This will compare both ideas, their elemental similarities and differences; and I hope after reading this I can get Edgar Allan Poe another bit of soul that is a reader. |
One of the most wonderful and known of Edgar Allan's Poe creations, this tale is one of the main predecessors of the same ideas that take place among this comunity after more than a century.
The main difference between Poe's and Muddasheep's creations -besides, of course, the format differences-, is the motive. The first implies sufferings as a punishment or mere torture; while the latter, although not entirely away from this, is esentially turned into entertainment for a silly and empty comunity. Inquisitorial repression on one side; an almost -or totally- random revenge on society on the other. Also, while Poe describes a single torture chamber, Muddasheep creates an entire institute at a massive torture concept.
However this unequalities, both are elementary alike. Strange paintings (fearful images of devils and skeletons in TPATP, all the strange pictures we're accustomed to in HQA), physycal torture (be it lighting creatures or burning shrinking walls), the possibility of voluntary death (the Pit itself or the Death Cells), and of course testing of patience (the long wait for the Pendulum to kill the subject and the wait for the train in Patience). Both of them show every torture from the personal point of view of a particular individual, though the end is polarly different; in HQA the subject follows the path to his own unavoidable death keeping the hopes Them allow them to have, while in TPATP, although the subject feels the same spontaneous hopes, we have the certainity that he has lived to tell his story.
I shall advise anyone here to read it, for it has the classic Poe's style applied this time to the ecclesiastic sadism, and the victim sufferings are little different through the ages.
The Pit and the Pendulum |
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