Question

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator explains, "The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress and stifle me."Why does Poe include this description of the narrator's feelings about the darkness?

Answer 1

This description of the narrator's feelings about the darkness helps create a claustrophobic mood and a sense of the narrator's fear and discomfort because of the dark: it's intensity, it's force, has an impact on the narrator. Therefore, this creates an atmosphere and a setting of suspense.