Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe's The masque of the red death is a story full of symbolism. the red death is sweeping through the country killing off many men and women as Prince Prospero hides safe inside his castle. The underlining theme in the masque of the red death is that nobody can escape death. The setting of the masque of the red death takes place in Prince Prosepero's abbey. The abbey had "a strong and lofty wall" and "gates of iron". The abbey was meant to protect prince prosepero and his guests. the prince had lively entertainment and music " all these and security were within. without was the 'red death''. The Prince felt safe inside his abbey as 'the pestilence raged most furiously abroad'. Inside the prince's abbey he had a designed a party to be the most magnificent party any of his guests had ever attended. He designed seven rooms with different color schemes. The seven colors were blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet and black. Each had windows to match except the black room "the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color'. The seven colors …show more content…
Money is obviously not a problem to the prince and his money and his high walls are meant to keep all the best in and all the distasteful out. When the clock hit midnight "there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, of terror" as a figure "shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave' walked into the party. The stranger "had gone so far as to assume the type of the red death". The prince can't believe this horrifying person has managed to sneak into his party but the story foreshadows the way someone could be in a room without one knowing it. From one room "the vision embraced but little more than one at a