Fear and helplessness can provoke different emotions from different kinds of people, in different situations. “The Masque of the Red Death”, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a pestilence that is spreading in a fictional land, the disease resembles one of today formally known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It might be said that “The Masque of the Red Death” was based on a mixture of the concepts of Ebola and the Black Death (Bubonic plague), which reigned terror in the fourteenth century; however, Ebola was not discovered and identified until 1976 and the novella was written in 1842. Is this fate or conquincidence? In this story, the plague transform into an unusual red death rather than a black one making blood, the very substance of life,
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The objective of its use is to teach some kind of a moral lesson. Poe detests allegory, he argued that it was an inferior form of literature because it is constructed to evoke interest in both the story and the abstract ideas incorporated for a deeper meaning in the narrative itself, which distracts from the original single effect that Poe most valued in literature. Yet Poe himself blatantly used allegory in "The Masque of the Red Death." Prince Prospero was the image of happiness. He seeks to block the threat of death by quarantining himself into his abbey; however, the allusion to I Thessalonians 5:2-3 at the end of the story shows that death comes "like a thief in the night," and even those who seek "peace and safety...shall not escape." The black room at the west end of the hallway represents death and the clock that strikes every hour is the count of life flying by and foreshadowing the death of the guests. Also, the masquerade affair can be envisioned through the explicity of dream language used, “There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a …show more content…
The Ebola virus, despite its killing nature, has helped in the development of the medical field and its response to the mass destruction of the immune system. Although extremely deadly the virus can be treated through plasma injections and a hydration tube. The success of this type of treatment was show in the case of Nina Pham. A positive spin can be taking form the survival of nurse Pham, providing a new angle on the matter. Furthermore, Ebola can destroy places as well. In Kono, Liberia, and Guinea Ebola had over run the people; where the Ebola epidemic is the worst, there are hundreds of new cases reported every week. Isaac Newton’s laws prove that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, in life there is a cause and effect for
The objective of its use is to teach some kind of a moral lesson. Poe detests allegory, he argued that it was an inferior form of literature because it is constructed to evoke interest in both the story and the abstract ideas incorporated for a deeper meaning in the narrative itself, which distracts from the original single effect that Poe most valued in literature. Yet Poe himself blatantly used allegory in "The Masque of the Red Death." Prince Prospero was the image of happiness. He seeks to block the threat of death by quarantining himself into his abbey; however, the allusion to I Thessalonians 5:2-3 at the end of the story shows that death comes "like a thief in the night," and even those who seek "peace and safety...shall not escape." The black room at the west end of the hallway represents death and the clock that strikes every hour is the count of life flying by and foreshadowing the death of the guests. Also, the masquerade affair can be envisioned through the explicity of dream language used, “There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a …show more content…
The Ebola virus, despite its killing nature, has helped in the development of the medical field and its response to the mass destruction of the immune system. Although extremely deadly the virus can be treated through plasma injections and a hydration tube. The success of this type of treatment was show in the case of Nina Pham. A positive spin can be taking form the survival of nurse Pham, providing a new angle on the matter. Furthermore, Ebola can destroy places as well. In Kono, Liberia, and Guinea Ebola had over run the people; where the Ebola epidemic is the worst, there are hundreds of new cases reported every week. Isaac Newton’s laws prove that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, in life there is a cause and effect for