Burial Alive

Burial Alive

Antigone

condemned to be buried alive, she thwarts Creon’s order by killing herself. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone]

Fortunato

walled up in a catacomb by the man he had wronged. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Cask of Amontillado”]

Lafourcade, Victorine

found alive in her tomb by her rejected suitor. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Premature Burial”]

Sindbad

entombed, by custom, upon his wife’s death, he manages to escape. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights; Magill II, 50]

Usher, Madeline

breaks out of vault in which she had been buried alive. [Am. Lit.: Poe “Fall of the House of Usher”]