Edgar Allan Poe And Catholic Acquisition

Edgar Allan Poe got the idea to write about the inquisition from a book written by a Spanish scholar named Juan Antonio Llorente. The book said, “...some had been confined three years, some longer period, and not on knew perfectly nature of his crime.” This shows how unfairly people were treated, so badly that one did not know why he or she were being prosecuted for a crime. This relates back to the short-story because the narrator of the story has no idea why he was captured and brought into this imprisonment. The cultural elements of the Spanish and Catholic Inquisition help readers gain a better base knowledge for why and how the narrator ends ups how he does, and helps shape Poe’s plot of the short-story. “...there came thronging upon my