Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins?” The meaning of these famous words ring throughout history, and in his poem, “The Masque of the Red Death”. In !842, Poe wrote the master piece which is painted with truth of death, and pain. The story helps create the theme of how man-kind is wicked and evil by how his use of rhetorical devices throughout the tale. In Poe’s poem, he depicts humans as savages among the earth, nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s wool. He believes that all people do in the world i gossip and spread lies as he stated, “And the new rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around…
