Red Death Vs Black Death Essay

Although there are several similarities in the red death and the black death, there are also many differences. There was a purpose behind poe's “Masque of the red death” and The Black Death was the an actual tragic event that happened .In this essay I will be talking about the difference in the symptoms, The different beliefs and the similarity in the actions.
The Red Death and The Black Death have several differences in the symptoms. The black death (plague) presented itself in three interrelated forms. There is only one kind of red death .The symptoms of the red death are sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and bleeding out of the pores. The first kind of plague,(the most common) is the bubonic variant . The symptoms of bubonic variant were swelling or buboes (tumors) that appeared on the victim's neck, armpit, or groin. The second type of plug is pneumatic plague. The symptom of the pneumatic plague was it would attack the respiratory system. finally the septicemic version would attack the blood system. Also, there was a life expectancy difference, the red death you would only live a half an hour, and the black death you could live up to a week. The symptoms are very different, but there was a reason the red death would happen a lot faster than the black death. …show more content…
In the red death and in the black death, there was some religion involved, more so in the black death. In the black death, they mainly based the dsies off of religion they thought God was mad at them, and so “they were cursed”. In the red death, it was more about the circle of life and how long they could escape death by being happy and escaping the rest of the world. In the black death, they believed everything you needed to know about the body was in the bible. There beliefs about the deadly disease are what brought them both to their