The opening paragraph is being narrated in past tense, which is important to note. It hints that even though the narrator's sentence was death, the narrator might actually survive somehow. Either that or he is narrating the story from his prison cell. Regardless, the narrator tells the reader about his trial and sentencing at the hands of the inquisition in the first paragraph. As he is struggling to come to terms with what his judges...
The opening paragraph is being narrated in past tense, which is important to note. It hints that even though the narrator's sentence was death, the narrator might actually survive somehow. Either that or he is narrating the story from his prison cell. Regardless, the narrator tells the reader about his trial and sentencing at the hands of the inquisition in the first paragraph. As he is struggling to come to terms with what his judges are pronouncing, he is rapidly looking around the room. He's looking for help from any source available, and at one point his eyes fall on seven candles that are burning on a nearby table. Those candles are what the narrator imagines are angels, and he hopes that they are to there to save him. He quickly realizes though that the candles are not angels and will not save him.
And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the table. At first they wore the aspect of charity, and seemed white and slender angels who would save me; but then, all at once, there came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fibre in my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery, while the angel forms became meaningless spectres, with heads of flame, and I saw that from them there would be no help.
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