Please provide two quotes that prove a point for the theme of "The Pit and the Pendulum."

You might want to think about the theme of salvation and
deliverance that runs through this excellent short story of terror and torture. Some
critics have argued that this story is an allegory about a man facing eternal judgement
and having to choose between heaven and hell. Certainly, if you interpret a number of
the features of the story symbolically, this view can be supported by apposite quotes.
Consider the terror that the narrator feels when confronted with the pit. He is so
terrified of this pit and falling into it that he does anything he can to avoid
it:

Shaking in
every limb, I groped my way back to the wall; resolving there to perish rather than risk
the terrors of the wells, of which my imaginatino now pictured many in various positions
about the dungeon.

This fear
suggests that we can view the pit symbolically as representing
hell.

Secondly, we can view the end of the story, with the
coming of General Lasalle, as symbolically representing Judgement Day. Note the sounds
that are presented as accompanying the narrator's
freedom:

There
was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There
was a harsh grating as of a thousand
thunders!

Note that we
associate Judgement Day with the sound of trumpets and human wails. Clearly, it could be
argued, this similarity at the end of the story supports the overall theme of salvation
that can be viewed as a symbolic theme of this excellent story.