To escape physical torture, Verezzi "implore[s] mercy, pity and even death" (63).
Nature, surrounding Verezzi, was also being physically destroyed; a "violent crash shook the cavern" and "the roof fell in" (64).
Verezzi is sure that he will die; he "prepared himself for death, which he was fully convinced within himself was rapidly approaching [...] death was every instant before his eyes - a lingering death by famine" (64).
Verezzi's body is slowly dying, and he anticipates the inevitable death that comes when the body is starved; "he cast from him the crust which alone could now retard the rapid advances of death" (64).
Zastrozzi's immediate goal is not to cause Verezzi's physical death. "'His life must not be lost,' exclaimed Zastrozzi; 'I have need of it.'" Zastrozzi takes measures to prevent Verezzi's physical death; "his life, though not the happiness of Verezzi was requisite; [...] to avoid the consequences of despair, knives were denied him" (66-67).
Nature, surrounding Verezzi, was also being physically destroyed; a "violent crash shook the cavern" and "the roof fell in" (64).
Verezzi is sure that he will die; he "prepared himself for death, which he was fully convinced within himself was rapidly approaching [...] death was every instant before his eyes - a lingering death by famine" (64).
Verezzi's body is slowly dying, and he anticipates the inevitable death that comes when the body is starved; "he cast from him the crust which alone could now retard the rapid advances of death" (64).
Zastrozzi's immediate goal is not to cause Verezzi's physical death. "'His life must not be lost,' exclaimed Zastrozzi; 'I have need of it.'" Zastrozzi takes measures to prevent Verezzi's physical death; "his life, though not the happiness of Verezzi was requisite; [...] to avoid the consequences of despair, knives were denied him" (66-67).
Shelley, Percy B. Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt.
