What is the plot of this story? Use your own words to summarize the plot in one thorough paragraph:
The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank and partied, mocking this plague thinking they could escape it. The way the castle was set up was seven chambers or rooms. These rooms were color coordinated, with the last room being dark, black and containing a large ebony clock. At the Prince’s masquerade ball, Prince Prospero noticed a figure standing in the blue room. He confronted …show more content…
How does Poe create suspense in this story?
Poe creates suspense in the story by drawing out the parties and explaining the extravagant house and rooms. These long details made the read eager to keep reading wanting to know what happens next. He always created suspense by killing Prince Prospero first and saving the rest of the parties’ lives until the end. Poe could have just killed them all at once in the blue room, instead he made the figure go into the black room and wait for the clock to …show more content…
The tone starts out with the citizens thinking they are all okay and are safe from the red death. The party and forget about what is going on in the real world. The tone for the rest of the poem then darkens when the figure that represents the red death appears. The dark tone sad tone is shown most after the Prince dies when the ebony clock strikes. The tone from the author is also judgemental because all of these people thought they were superior to the rest of the world and escaping the inevitability of death. Instead they locked themselves in a house with it. He looks at these people as stupid and
The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank and partied, mocking this plague thinking they could escape it. The way the castle was set up was seven chambers or rooms. These rooms were color coordinated, with the last room being dark, black and containing a large ebony clock. At the Prince’s masquerade ball, Prince Prospero noticed a figure standing in the blue room. He confronted …show more content…
How does Poe create suspense in this story?
Poe creates suspense in the story by drawing out the parties and explaining the extravagant house and rooms. These long details made the read eager to keep reading wanting to know what happens next. He always created suspense by killing Prince Prospero first and saving the rest of the parties’ lives until the end. Poe could have just killed them all at once in the blue room, instead he made the figure go into the black room and wait for the clock to …show more content…
The tone starts out with the citizens thinking they are all okay and are safe from the red death. The party and forget about what is going on in the real world. The tone for the rest of the poem then darkens when the figure that represents the red death appears. The dark tone sad tone is shown most after the Prince dies when the ebony clock strikes. The tone from the author is also judgemental because all of these people thought they were superior to the rest of the world and escaping the inevitability of death. Instead they locked themselves in a house with it. He looks at these people as stupid and