How To Write An Essay On The Masque Of The Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe delivers his that no can escape death in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death” through symbolism, setting and narration. The story takes place during the dark ages where the bubonic plague is devastating the land killing off thousands. The bubonic plague is a horrendous disease that cause a gruesome death. The author states that it causes “sharp pains and sudden dizziness and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution” (Edgar Allan Poe). He renames this disease the Red Death for how, “the redness and the horror of blood” (Edgar Allan Poe), was its calling card. Only one person thought of a way to escape such an unfortunate. Prince Prospero has called for a thousand of his friends to join him in his abbey far away from this disaster. The abbey they were to stay in was a huge structure based of the prince’s own eccentric mind. It had high walls and gates made of iron. Once the courtiers enter the abbey they welded the gates shut with …show more content…
It does not matter how rich or how above it you are. We all will die. The prince and his courtiers were foolish and selfish to think they could avoid dying by hiding. In the end death snuck into the place where they thought they were the safest and took them all. That prove that being in an isolated stronghold won’t protected you from death. Even the fires and the clock died with them. The last line of the story sums everything up perfectly. It says, “Darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all” (Edgar Allan Poe). Death comes for all men no matter what age, sex, race, creed or status you are. That is the one thing everyone in this world share. When the time comes, we will all meet death. How we meet him and whether we truly accept him is the only differences. Death is a part of life just like birth. There is no escaping that indefinite