The Pit And The Pendulum: Movie Vs. Book Essay -- essays research pape

The Pit and the Pendulum Movie vs. BookThe movie "The pit and the Pendulum" was nothing at all like the book. Themovie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. Hissister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. Thecastle was apply to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madenabelieves that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and thatled to the death of his sister. The doctor said she died of fright. Theyburied her in a tomb below the castle.As child Dom Madena saw his father torture and kill his fathers brotherand his own wife. He accused them of adultery. His father didnt torture hismother to death, he buried her alive. Dom Madena estimation that he buried hiswife alive. Then one night someone was playing the harpsichord just like hiswife did. Another time a servant heard his wife whispering to her. Then onenight someone trashed her room.     Dom Madena, also called Nic holas, heard his wife calling him. He wentthrough a secret passageway until he entered the room of all the torturingdevices. He goes to his wife grave, which they dug up to prove she was dead,and she popped out of her grave. She chased him through the donjon until theymet with the doctor. Then Nicholas fainted, and his wife, who never really died,told him that it was all scheme. She and the doctor were having an affair. Hechased the doctor and he fell into a pit and died...