Symbols From the Raven and Masque of the Red Death
Why do authors put symbols into their stories? Well symbols can help people picture and relate to something in the story. In the stories The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death they each used three categories of symbols. They used loss of control, death, and lastly false sense of security. These three categories took the stories to the next level. It made the readers be able to picture and relate to the story in their own way. So what symbols did the author of the two stories use you may ask? Well let's start off with DEATH!
In the Raven Lenore is a symbol of loss of control. The reason Poe has gone crazy is because of her death! Lenore dying made Poe a very angry and depressed man. In the story Poe is taking his anger out on the Raven by screaming at the bird because it only says NEVERMORE! It also shows that him sitting at home alone without Lenore has made him very depressed. Now in the Masque of the Red Death the Red Death is a symbol loss of control. In the story they go to the abbey and welded the doors shut to …show more content…
This bird has come, and found Poe himself. Poe thinks that one day his wife Lenore will come back, but the bird always says NEVERMORE! As we all know nevermore means never again, and that's exactly what the bird means. Poe hates the bird in the story because it is showing him that Lenore is not coming back! The bird is there reminding him that Lenore is gone and she has experienced death. Now switching over to The Masque of the Red Death, the Red Death is a symbol of death! In this town everyone feared the thing called the Red Death because everyone was dying from it. “The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its steal the redness and horror of blood” (Masque 456). When people heard the words RED DEATH they automatically thought of death! They feared and trusted
Why do authors put symbols into their stories? Well symbols can help people picture and relate to something in the story. In the stories The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death they each used three categories of symbols. They used loss of control, death, and lastly false sense of security. These three categories took the stories to the next level. It made the readers be able to picture and relate to the story in their own way. So what symbols did the author of the two stories use you may ask? Well let's start off with DEATH!
In the Raven Lenore is a symbol of loss of control. The reason Poe has gone crazy is because of her death! Lenore dying made Poe a very angry and depressed man. In the story Poe is taking his anger out on the Raven by screaming at the bird because it only says NEVERMORE! It also shows that him sitting at home alone without Lenore has made him very depressed. Now in the Masque of the Red Death the Red Death is a symbol loss of control. In the story they go to the abbey and welded the doors shut to …show more content…
This bird has come, and found Poe himself. Poe thinks that one day his wife Lenore will come back, but the bird always says NEVERMORE! As we all know nevermore means never again, and that's exactly what the bird means. Poe hates the bird in the story because it is showing him that Lenore is not coming back! The bird is there reminding him that Lenore is gone and she has experienced death. Now switching over to The Masque of the Red Death, the Red Death is a symbol of death! In this town everyone feared the thing called the Red Death because everyone was dying from it. “The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its steal the redness and horror of blood” (Masque 456). When people heard the words RED DEATH they automatically thought of death! They feared and trusted