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How Is The Madness Of The Narrator Portrayed In The Passage Above?

dulum" by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the question that follows. Amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. I rushed to its deadly brink. I threw my straining vision below. The glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses. Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what I saw. At length it forcedÑit wrestled its way into my soulÑit burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. O for a voice to speak!Ñoh, horror!Ñoh, any horror but this! With a shriek I rushed from the margin and buried my face in my handsÑweeping bitterly. How is the madness of the narrator portrayed in the passage above?
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Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: Each sentence of the passage indicates the narrator's madness. The first sentence shows madness in that the narrator seems to indicate that he is going to throw himself into the pit to escape the "fiery destruction." Sentences two through four show the narrator running to the pit to possibly throw himself in. He is "straining" to see whether or not throwing himself into the pit is a viable optionÑof course, we know that the pit was initially designed to kill him, so it is obviously not a viable option. The narrator, in his madness, has forgotten this crucial element. The language of the fifth and sixth sentence is what shows the narrator's madness with the words, "it forcedÑit wrestled its way into my soulÑit burned itself upon my shuddering reason." The choice of language indicates how frenzied and out of his mind the narrator is. The seventh sentence of the passage, with the words, "oh, horror!Ñoh, any horror but this!" further portray the madness of the narrator. Using a word like "horror" to describe the situation shows the reader that the narrator is no longer capable of any sort of rational thought. Our narrator concludes the passage in a state of total despair: he has no other possible solution but to cry and hope that the end comes soon.
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