Edgar Allan Poe was an author with a very distinguished sense of style that included many works of horror and torture. Some of his most famous works are: The Raven, the Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum. Arguably, The Masque of the Red Death is one of his more elaborate texts which is often studied in a school setting. The short story is one of intense imagery, suspense, and a critical lesson to be learned.
The imagery in the Masque of the Red Death, includes a Prince’s elaborate and exquisite castle among a dying and plagued land of peasants. The Prince, Prospero, has quarantined himself in his castle along with the knights and dams of the high class society. The knights, dams, and prince are trying to escape the clutches of the Red Death. His castle’s iron gates are barricaded and bolted shut to keep the disease out. After six long months in the castle, the some odd thousand peoples within have decided to have a masquerade ball to escape the foreseen doom of the plague for one night. The ball is to be had in an abbey which is extravagantly decorated with sparkling glitter, expensive gems, bountiful food, and echoing laughter. In the abbey there are approximately seven color coordinated rooms starting from east to west; the first …show more content…
By locking themselves in the castle the knights, dams, and prince believe they have saved themselves from the plague. As the plague terrorizes through the lands, the people of the castle are living very lavishly and are ignoring the outside horrors. The people continue to live their lifestyles as they had once been before the sickness has begun. These actions express the people’s ignorance to accept their ultimate fate. When Prince Prospero runs at the Red Death with his dagger bared he is denying the truth. Death cannot be escaped because ultimately it is everyone’s last chapter in
The imagery in the Masque of the Red Death, includes a Prince’s elaborate and exquisite castle among a dying and plagued land of peasants. The Prince, Prospero, has quarantined himself in his castle along with the knights and dams of the high class society. The knights, dams, and prince are trying to escape the clutches of the Red Death. His castle’s iron gates are barricaded and bolted shut to keep the disease out. After six long months in the castle, the some odd thousand peoples within have decided to have a masquerade ball to escape the foreseen doom of the plague for one night. The ball is to be had in an abbey which is extravagantly decorated with sparkling glitter, expensive gems, bountiful food, and echoing laughter. In the abbey there are approximately seven color coordinated rooms starting from east to west; the first …show more content…
By locking themselves in the castle the knights, dams, and prince believe they have saved themselves from the plague. As the plague terrorizes through the lands, the people of the castle are living very lavishly and are ignoring the outside horrors. The people continue to live their lifestyles as they had once been before the sickness has begun. These actions express the people’s ignorance to accept their ultimate fate. When Prince Prospero runs at the Red Death with his dagger bared he is denying the truth. Death cannot be escaped because ultimately it is everyone’s last chapter in