Read the selection below from the short story the pit and pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe and complete the statement that follows. Which excerpt portrays the narrators madness best?

The excerpt which portrays the narrator’s madness best is:

B.“By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice . . . .”

The story begins with the narrator getting sentenced to death. The story takes to the time during the Spanish Inquisition when the result of the death sentence was the most horrible and terrifying. The setting of the story and the characters are described in the terms of being pale, scary, torturous, painful and horrifying. The description of the pendulum which is described as an instrument of death gives a Gothic experience to the readers.

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