Comparing Honesty In 'The Pit And The Pendulum'

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Sekhar wanted to be honest for a day and i believe being truthful is way better than lying but there is also limits. Sekhar achieved his goal but to be honest he was very rude. First of all, Sekhar should not have been very harsh with his wife's cooking but instead be nice and honest about it. If a person dies even though you don't know/like them you should always be a bit understanding, Sekhar was being honest and very rude to his colleague who was grieving and sad about his friend. Death is a very tragic and depressing thing, it is the number 1 thing that causes depression and Sekhar should have known that some people are very sad about what happened and should not have been very insensitive about the death. Sekhar was being very stupid by …show more content…
Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”-Chanakya In the “The Pit and the Pendulum” the dungeon was very depressing. It is known that most likely if a person knows they will die they will go crazy. The dungeon was messed up, because it was a small dark room and had rats roaming around in it. You will be psychological damage if you know you are trapped in a small pitch black room and you will be suffocated. The pit represents hell or death, because it is a frightening and depressing.The dungeon was made to cause psychological damage more than physical damage, It had a pit in the middle, a pendulum that swings and every in every swing the pendulum descends, and a heated metal wall that will close and cause you to fall in the pit. If it was me i would have passed out but the narrator showed us that his character was smart and found ways to escape like for example when he used grease to make the rats eat the strap out and when he was using geometry to see how the room was. Knowing there is torture machine on top of you and knowing your life will be taken away from you will cause psychological damage and cause you to go to therapy or be mentally insane if you survive. When people are just trapped in a dark small room they will hallucinate and might end up being emotionally scarred for the rest of there life. Imagine you were in the the character and there was a pendulum descending slowly to slice open your heart and

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