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Compare And Contrast How Much Land Does A Man And Masque Of The Red Death

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Humans have the same characteristics as the main characters in the two stories I have wrote about. In masque of the red death the author Edgar Allan Poe writes about a man named prospero who is a prince of a kingdom and tries to save himself Prospero and the highest of his friends but something goes terribly wrong. Also in the story of How much Land Does A Man Need is written by a man from Russia named Leo Tolstoy who bases his story on a man named Pahom who is a peasant and works his way up with his greediness but his greediness catches up with him and the less expected happens. Pahom and Prospero both have the desire of keeping getting more but Prospero is both selfish and they just don't think of other people. The main character in How Much Land Does A Man is named Pahom he is a very avaricious person and that greediness leads him to his death. He was trying to get as much land as he could in one day so he kept running and running and then once he got back he died he ran himself to death. “ But saw that blood was flowing from his mouth. Pahom was dead.” When he got back his servant he hired back in his other village was trying to wake him up and see if he was alive when Pahom got to the top of the hill. He could've stopped but he kept on going and he kept wanting more so that is showing how he is really self centered and don't care about other people. Also Pahom left his family to get more land to become richer. He left his old village and family behind so he could

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