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The horror of entombment pervades the novel, as it does in many of Poe’s other works. Pym’s virtual imprisonment in the hold and his and Peters’s near-interment in the cavern on Tsalal evoke the most heightened sense of fear and frenzy. What makes burial while alive particularly disturbing is the fact that one’s consciousness is still very much awake; the person knows exactly what is happening to them and experiences the uncanny feeling that they are experiencing “the allotted portion of the dead” (153). In this text, however, these entombments also facilitate a movement toward rebirth and the eventual possessing of ultimate knowledge that comes with the spiritual journey to the ends of the earth. While entombment is thus terrifying, it is a necessary component of Pym’s journey.
2. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Summary | GradeSaver The further the canoe travels toward the South Pole the more whiteness plays a role. The water grows exceedingly warm and milky white. White ash rains from the sky. A large cataract looms before them and disturbances occur beneath the surface. Nu-Nu dies of fright at these odd circumstances. It is an entirely dreamlike sensation floating in this eerie placid sea. The canoe heads toward the looming cataract and Pym and Peters see a large white figure rise up before them. 3. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Quotes and Analysis | GradeSaver The horrid morsel dropped at length with a sullen splash immediately at the feet of Parker.
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The part of Pym involving the corpse-strewn ship that Pym, Peters, Augustus, and Parker first believe to be their savior and then realize is a spectacle of awe-inspiring horror is one of the novel’s most memorable scenes. The horror is most manifest when the men observe a revolting, bloated seagull feasting on the face of one of the dead passengers. The seagull drops a “horrid morsel” right in front of Parker; this is one of Poe’s clearest examples of foreshadowing, for it is Parker who presses for the starving men to draw straws and determine which one of them will be killed in order for the others to eat and survive. Parker is unfortunately the one who loses this “game” that he suggests and is sacrificed for the others. Poe refrains from discussing the episode of cannibalism in any detail, but readers can garner how disgusting it would have been through this earlier scene.
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