The Masque of the Red Death Can you dominate death? People believe that if they are rich they won’t die but if you are poor you will die. No matter if you are poor, rich, handsome or not everybody will die because death is a stage of life. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Poe uses as symbols seven rooms and a clock to represent death. Poe demonstrate his readers Prince Prospero running through all the rooms and the clock ticks slower every time he gets closer to the seventh room. The prince arrives to the seventh room his guests and him die and the clock stops ticking. Poes shows that no matter if you are the richest person or the poorest person everybody will die. Prince Prospero was a prince and he still died. Nobody can escape death
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Prince Prospero orders him removed but no one dares touch him. With drawn dagger, the prince chases the masked stranger falls dead upon the carpet in the black room. When the guests remove his mask and costume, they find nothing there. One by one , the prince and his “lighthearted” friends all die, victims of the Red Death.”(Gillespie and Naden) If the seventh room is black and its where the prince and his guests die then that means that the other six rooms are the other stages of life. The first room was blue so that represents birth, the second is purple represents growth. The third one is green it represents youth, the fourth one is orange it represent adulthood. The fifth one is white which represents white, the sixth one is violet which represents darkness, and the last which is the seventh is black represents death. Poe uses seven rooms to represent the seven stages of life. Poe uses allegorical in “The Masque of the Red Death” because he makes the rooms go from east to the west. East where the sunrises which is where birth takes place. “That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example,in blue- and vividly blue were its window.” (Poe) The seventh room which is at the west side where the sunsets its where the prince and his guests died. This is how Poe uses
Prince Prospero orders him removed but no one dares touch him. With drawn dagger, the prince chases the masked stranger falls dead upon the carpet in the black room. When the guests remove his mask and costume, they find nothing there. One by one , the prince and his “lighthearted” friends all die, victims of the Red Death.”(Gillespie and Naden) If the seventh room is black and its where the prince and his guests die then that means that the other six rooms are the other stages of life. The first room was blue so that represents birth, the second is purple represents growth. The third one is green it represents youth, the fourth one is orange it represent adulthood. The fifth one is white which represents white, the sixth one is violet which represents darkness, and the last which is the seventh is black represents death. Poe uses seven rooms to represent the seven stages of life. Poe uses allegorical in “The Masque of the Red Death” because he makes the rooms go from east to the west. East where the sunrises which is where birth takes place. “That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example,in blue- and vividly blue were its window.” (Poe) The seventh room which is at the west side where the sunsets its where the prince and his guests died. This is how Poe uses