How Does Death Symbolize In The Masque Of The Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe "The Masque of the Red Death" is about a masquerade party, hosted by a man named Prince Prospero. During, the course of a plague, Prince Prospero invites his friends to come to his castle for fun. In the middle of his party the people are gathered together but, soon get interrupted by a guest dressed in garments associated with the plague of the "Red Death". Soon, all the guests begin to die as they recognize the "Red Death". The theme of the story is "No one can escape death, or predict it." This shows that Edgar Allan Poe's use of symbolism is used throughout the story to identify death. He uses Prince Prospero, the seven rooms, and the clock to show this theme of the “Red Death”. The story opens up recounting of the plague the "Red Death" has been devastating the country, and the narrator describes the process of the disease, while he emphasizing the redness of the blood and the scarlet stains. This disease is deadly and occurs to happen very rapidly that leaves one dead within thirty minutes after he or she is infected. On the other hand, Poe uses such words as devastated, fatal, sharp pains, bleeding, scarlet stains, victim, disease and death and all of these words that are gathered together creates an effect on the readers of the horror of death caused by
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He's rich, successful and known as an upper class person. His name Prospero means happiness and of good fortune which he possesses. On the other hand, he's faced with a plague that he severely tries to avoid. He stays inside the house partying to give himself a sense of happiness and dismisses himself to hide from the fatal disease. He uses happiness to rule the threat of death just like any other person would. Prince Prospero’s death shows that no one can escape death under any circumstances. Death is quality to all powers and can overcome everything just as it came to Prospero's wall inside his
He's rich, successful and known as an upper class person. His name Prospero means happiness and of good fortune which he possesses. On the other hand, he's faced with a plague that he severely tries to avoid. He stays inside the house partying to give himself a sense of happiness and dismisses himself to hide from the fatal disease. He uses happiness to rule the threat of death just like any other person would. Prince Prospero’s death shows that no one can escape death under any circumstances. Death is quality to all powers and can overcome everything just as it came to Prospero's wall inside his