The allegorical symbolism of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” represents the futility of ignoring human suffering and delaying death through wealth.
Once such symbol is the castellated abbey where the masquerade is held. Its “strong and lofty walls” and “gates of iron” highlight the partygoers’ sense of false security and elevates the irony of their demise, imprisoned with the Red Death. Despite its fortification the abbey is compromised by the disease, demonstrating the pointlessness of attempting to evade death and misfortune.
The masqueraders themselves are a metaphor for escapism, as they prefer to exist in the dream-like world within the abbey rather than face the Red Death outside. The appearance of the corpse-like
Once such symbol is the castellated abbey where the masquerade is held. Its “strong and lofty walls” and “gates of iron” highlight the partygoers’ sense of false security and elevates the irony of their demise, imprisoned with the Red Death. Despite its fortification the abbey is compromised by the disease, demonstrating the pointlessness of attempting to evade death and misfortune.
The masqueraders themselves are a metaphor for escapism, as they prefer to exist in the dream-like world within the abbey rather than face the Red Death outside. The appearance of the corpse-like