The clock, that is located in the very last room, the black room that represents death and the end of the circle of life, does very well at representing the time life until the people inside the palace die. Every hour the clock chimed loud causing everyone and everything to stop, “ the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to the heartbroken sound.” (Poe 2) The people of the palace knew that with each chime that time was running out they just did not know it would be as soon as it was. It is also mentioned that the once everyone had caught the plague and died the red death stood in the shadow of the clock because time was up and everybody was dead because of the red death. The clock overall serves as a very good symbol of “passing of time and inevitability of death” (Mucha) because they cannot escape it and the chimes of the clock were a constant reminder that death was
The clock, that is located in the very last room, the black room that represents death and the end of the circle of life, does very well at representing the time life until the people inside the palace die. Every hour the clock chimed loud causing everyone and everything to stop, “ the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to the heartbroken sound.” (Poe 2) The people of the palace knew that with each chime that time was running out they just did not know it would be as soon as it was. It is also mentioned that the once everyone had caught the plague and died the red death stood in the shadow of the clock because time was up and everybody was dead because of the red death. The clock overall serves as a very good symbol of “passing of time and inevitability of death” (Mucha) because they cannot escape it and the chimes of the clock were a constant reminder that death was