Similarities of symbols in “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Lottery”
There is always an inevitability of an outcome at ones point of life. Poe’s story about “The Masque of the Red Death” shows how the partygoers becomes folly and avoid death at all cost. Jackson’s story about “The Lottery” shows how Tessie mentioning the fact that the lottery was unjust lead to her own death. Both authors present vividly in their stories, the inevitability of each characters own death.
Poe paints a picture in his stories so that the readers understand what is happening at each stage of the story line. For instance at the start of the story we find out that everyone is avoid the ‘Red Death’. The symbol is explained by using the significance of the colored rooms showcasing the idea of birth at east with death ending in the west, and the grandfather’s clock in the final room. None of the partygoers tries to make an attempt the last room, being black velvet, because they feel unpleasantness feeling of death. As for the grandfathers clock, every hour that passes by sends a monotonous sound which is a constant reminder of the truth that all the …show more content…
When the masque figure comes into the party, this man goes against Prince’s decorum in which lead the Prince furious. While the Prince tries to unmask the man, in doing so the Prince ends up dead. In addition when Tessie’s husband gets selected in “The Lottery”, Tessie expressed that the lottery selection was unfair. In doing so ended up being a second lottery within the Hutchinson’s family. Tessie then tries to slim her chances of getting selected for the lottery, by enforcing the idea of bring her daughters names whom have already married off into other families. The idea being not accepted led to the final lottery in which inevitably Tessie winds up being the winner and getting stoned to
There is always an inevitability of an outcome at ones point of life. Poe’s story about “The Masque of the Red Death” shows how the partygoers becomes folly and avoid death at all cost. Jackson’s story about “The Lottery” shows how Tessie mentioning the fact that the lottery was unjust lead to her own death. Both authors present vividly in their stories, the inevitability of each characters own death.
Poe paints a picture in his stories so that the readers understand what is happening at each stage of the story line. For instance at the start of the story we find out that everyone is avoid the ‘Red Death’. The symbol is explained by using the significance of the colored rooms showcasing the idea of birth at east with death ending in the west, and the grandfather’s clock in the final room. None of the partygoers tries to make an attempt the last room, being black velvet, because they feel unpleasantness feeling of death. As for the grandfathers clock, every hour that passes by sends a monotonous sound which is a constant reminder of the truth that all the …show more content…
When the masque figure comes into the party, this man goes against Prince’s decorum in which lead the Prince furious. While the Prince tries to unmask the man, in doing so the Prince ends up dead. In addition when Tessie’s husband gets selected in “The Lottery”, Tessie expressed that the lottery selection was unfair. In doing so ended up being a second lottery within the Hutchinson’s family. Tessie then tries to slim her chances of getting selected for the lottery, by enforcing the idea of bring her daughters names whom have already married off into other families. The idea being not accepted led to the final lottery in which inevitably Tessie winds up being the winner and getting stoned to