Poe uses symbolism to unfold this scary tale of terror. The prince Prospero is plains a big party in his palace. “But the prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious” (poe.373). The prince decides to lock all the doors of his palace in order to fend off the plague. He decorates his room in single colors for each room to represent the death.
Another character who appears towards the end of the story is the uninvited guest. The uninvited guest symbolizes the Red Death, the terrible plague that the Prince and his friends were attempting to escape from. The uninvited guest showing up at the castellated abbey enhances the story and it’s moral by showing that death is never invited. Towards the end of the story Prince Prospero decides to throw a party in his castellated abbey with all of his friends to try and help himself and his friends forget about their boredom and seclusion from being in the abbey. The castellated abbey symbolizes false security.
Also, in this seventh room there was an item in particular that stood out and that was an Ebony Clock. When the chiming occurred, all laughter, dancing, and talking by Prince Prospero’s guests would cease and so would the music. After the chiming ended, everything would always return back to the party-like state of being. This unsettling and interrupting chime of the ebony clock was indeed Poe’s use of allegory and symbolism. The Ebony clock alluded to death and the hourly chiming indicated that “death” was near and inevitable.
The figurative part of the story is the reason the author wrote the story. In "The Masque of the Red Death," Edgar Allen Poe tells of a plague that was sweeping across the country. In order to keep the plague out, he invites the high class people into his castle and locks the gates permanently behind them. He hosts a masquerade in his castellated abbey using all seven of his rooms. The rooms were colored starting with blue and ending with black.
The short story “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of a prince who abandons his kingdom to flee from the ravages of a disease called the Red Death. He escapes with an entourage to a secluded abbey and celebrates with a masquerade ball. However, the epidemic arrives and enacts the demise of the prince and his company ultimately in the end. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the author utilizes the elements of setting and symbolism to establish the thematic inevitability of death and the futility of man’s attempt to elude his fate. To begin with, Poe conveys the infallibility of death by depicting the location of the story as an abbey employed by its inhabitants as protection but is ultimately a fatal confinement.
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, an epidemic disease called The Read Death inflicts massive death and destruction upon a people of a fictional country. Prince Prospero, however, is hopeful that he and his dominions will survive. He summons his friends and knights and retreats to within the castle walls confident that they will fend off the plague. After several months he decides to throw a masquerade ball. At midnight a ghastly figure appears; the plaque has infiltrated the castle.
Ryan R. Brewer Mr. Barnes English 10 14 September 2015 The unmasqueing of the red death sqwaa The name Poe brings murderers and madmen to my mind images, premature burials, sdfgand women who return from the dead. His works have been in the making since 1827 and include many creepy stories such as The Masque Of The Red Death. In the castle there are a bunch of wealthy people who locked theirselfs inside due to the plague going around making people bleed from their eyes while all the wealthy people are safe from the plague and the poor are suffering from the plague dying left and right. The whole time the wealthy thaught they where safe from the plague by locking the door. Meanwhile the whole time the wealthy thaught they where safe
“The Masque of the Red Death” is a story in which the prince, Prospero, is hiding within the confines of his own palace from the “Red Death”. The “Red Death” is a violently bloody terminal disease that has plagued Prospero’s country, killing nearly half the populous. Despite the plight of his people, Prospero, summons a thousand nobles and entertainers to hide within his palace. The palace was a large, magnificent structure; with a strong wall enclosing the palace. The iron gates within the wall were welded shut after all the guests were inside, to prevent ingress or egress, thus turning the palace into a sanctuary, or a coffin.
He then blames two guards for the deed and becomes king of Scotland. Throughout the course of this play, Macbeth murders his best friend, Banquo, Macduffs entire family, and plots to kill more so he may keep his title. He becomes crazy with power and rants about the witches’ predictions daily. He becomes, in his eyes, immortal. On the other hand, his wife becomes so guilty for their deed she begins to sleepwalk and talk of their crime in the night.
Jaime James English 112 In “The Red Masque of Death” Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of a country plagued by a mysterious epidemic that kills all inflicted within minutes. A wealthy prince, Prince Prospero, has found a way for him and wealthy friends to avoid the epidemic. They lock themselves away from the general population as the unfortunate succumb to the epidemic. Prince Prospero made sure that every person’s needs were met. After months in seclusion, Prince Prospero decides to throw a masquerade ball to celebrate their good fortune.