Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which i had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. how does poe portray the madness of the narrator in the passage above?

Strangely enough for a story by Edgar Allan Poe, the madness of the narrator is not overly obvious in the passage. The passage appears at the beginning of the story, so the narrator does seem to be sane at this point. Much of the passage indicates the thought processes of the narrator, but he seems relatively rational. By the end of the passage, though, the reader can see that the narrator is beginning his descent into madness with the statement, "By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice." This sort of behavior is not typically seen in mentally healthy individuals.

answer: third

explanation:

1 - shakespeare

2 - stephen king

3 - stephenie meyer

4 - seiichi morimura

5 - sabrina elkins

6 - sally cheney

7 - samantha hunter

8 - shelley bates

9 - sue civil-brown

10 - sylvie kurtz