nd the Pendulum" are symbolic of Poe's sexual frustration. "At the most unblushingly Freudian, the pit and the pendulum are the respective symbols of feminine and masculine sexuality." This Freudian interpretation also holds that the walls that begin to close in on the prisoner symbolize the contractions of the maternal womb. Proponents of this view believe Poe's emotional conflict stemmed from sexual inhibitions, which were then expressed in t
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