The Masque Of The Red Death: Comparing The Book And Film

Although, some people may think that , “The Masque of the Red Death”, was a tale based on the disease known as the Black Death. However, there is so much more meaning than just a disease. Let’s start with a question that ties along throughout the essay, is death truly inevitable? Therefore, I’m going to discuss: First, how the worship of the Satan follows along with death; Next, how faith changes the aspect of cheating death; Finally, the overall aspects of the avoidance of death.
First off, I’m going discuss, how the worship of Satan follows along with death. Therefore, throughout the movie and book, there are two different meanings of death. In the movie the Prince Prospero was a big guy on his master Satan. Prospero believed that Satan was the only god. That death has no master. In his belief Satan killed God and Satan ruled the world. Little did he know that Prospero, “himself” was death. However, in the book it explained that Prince Prospero is more afraid of the sound from the …show more content…
Although both tale and movie have different overall plots to their stories. They do share a very similar detail. A detail that explains death throughout the tale. Let's take an example from the book. Death is connected to the Ebony clock which means that time doesn’t stop death, death is inevitable, death has no stopping point. However, in the movie death is associated with both Satan and God. Death is the non-belief in God, but is connected to their master they call the Fallen Angel. Meanwhile, in spite of this, let’s look back at the question mentioned earlier. Is death truly inevitable? Well by the looks of Poe, yes death is inevitable no time nor place will stop it. Eventually everyone will die. However, according to the movie death is connected to faith. A worship for the true and real God will save you from death. Death lurks everywhere, according to the movie Christianity is your only way to