Creative Writing: Prospero's Castle

As the subject’s dance and revel in the beauty of the color coordinated rooms, they cannot keep the thought of death from their minds as the din of the enormous clock shows their time on earth slowly ticking away. The royalty portrayed in this story, as they entered the castle, only caused the fear of death to be stronger. Instead of going about their regular business and allowing death to come upon them naturally, they frantically fled to a far-away keep constructed by a

For example the blue represented birth, the green room youth, the orange room adulthood, the white room elderly , the violet room the time before death, and the black room was death. Poe made the prince run through all the stages until death for a specific reason. That is because he wanted to give a greater meaning which is everyone goes through all the 7 stages of life and the cycle repeats for every newborn, none can avoid or run away from them they are unpreventable.

"The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the 'Red Death,'" (209). As Edgar Allen Poe set the scene for his story, he also created an ominous mood and a sense of suspense supported by the setting. He details the fun and amusement inside the prince's abbey, in contrast to the horror and doom outside, and the reader's curiosity is piqued, because such bliss cannot be maintained for long. Throughout the story Poe explicates and changes elaborate environments to build the suspenseful

For instance, the panes were scarlet, a deep blood colour. The "bloody" red room thus becomes a place of ending not only due to the westward location, but also because of its color. Poe describes the last, black room as the dreadful endpoint, the room the guests fear just as they fear death. The room is feared by the guests because it reminds them of death, which is why no one enters the room. The room is involved in all of the main scenes throughout the course ofthe story. For example, this is the room Prince Prospero and his guests die from the Red Death and also where the clock is located. The reader sees how important the rooms are throughout the story and its main contribution to the theme.

The visitors go to Prince Prospero’s last chamber for protection from the Red Death because it is meant to be “impenetrable” and a place of safety from the outside world. The room is “shrouded in black velvet tapestries” and has windows of a “scarlet—a deep blood color” which contributes to an eerie mood as the guests enter (Poe). The surroundings and colors of the room provide a grim feeling and also remind the reader of sadness, terror, and death coming for them. The room’s colors reflect what will inescapably happen to them there. Furthermore, the last chamber is the room in which the visitors “died each in the despairing posture of his fall” (Poe). The death of all of the people in the chamber represents the predestined end of life. The last stage of life is death, and the last chamber is where all of the visitors die despite the company’s belief that it would protect them from the outside

It was dark at the castle; Not a soul was awake. As the wind blew, the castle itself was snoring. Nothing moved but a dark form on the fortress wall. It was a boy. Climbing over the wall, the prince sneaked to the open attic window. With the guards sleeping at their posts, it was child’s play. Agile as a squirrel, he darted into the attic. Inside the room, beheld the Firebird, a majestic sun-eagle of gold. Withdrawing the Firebird, the boy stared at the pure golde cage, coveting it. A name was engraved on the handle, genommen*. Though the prince was warned against stealing it, his hand inched towards the cage, then darted to grab the handle. As soon as he touched it, trumpets blared and alarms roared

I walked by a room that said Room one and the color in the room was all blue even the windows. The second room was completely purple,even a TV was purple. We walked by the third room but I did not get a good look at it the only thing I saw the color green. Prince Prospero showed me into a room that was all orange and said that, this is going to be your room that you’ll sleep in. He said that a lot of people do not like to sleep in the orange room because they

I been trying to warn everyone that something terrible is going to happen. No one believed at all, only me, Anne, and 3 youth girls. We hoped everyone would believe but they didn't. Tonight was the night we are having a party to celebrate the 7 months we had been living in safety. Everyone was to wear a mask, my mask is a crystal ball, psychics used them to help predict things. We were all enjoying ourselves, then suddenly we seen someone suspicious, we had never seen this person before within the whole 7 months. He had on a scandalous costume. The masquerader(the unknown guest) starts looking for the Prince. As the Prince was about to take down the anonymous person, the masquerader is headed towards the black room, Prospero starts to run after him after he loses him. As the Prince got to the edge of the black room, the guest whirls around to face him, and Prospero falls to the ground dead. The crowd threw itself at the guest, only to discover nothing underneath the mask and costume. The Red Death has came to the party. One by one the guests dies, blood all over all the Prince’s rooms. Lights, candles, everything went out leaving only “darkness, The Red Death, me, Anne, and the 3 girls. Earlier I discovered a hole in the purple room, we escaped safely without the Red Death

By twelve midnight, all the guests saw a scary and bloody strange figure wearing a mask, they became very anxious, so the prince commanded all the guests to snatch this unknown guest and expose his identity. Obviously no one did. They were all terrified and shocked so they marched away from that unidentified stranger. After wards the prince caught him all by himself. He started running after the stranger trying to catch him but he couldn’t, the stranger kept going from room to room. At last, he reached the dark, gloomy, gory and bloody room where the stranger had to face the prince. Right before the prince was about to to stab the intruder, the prince fell on the ground dead. After the incident, the presence of the Red Death” was acknowledged (Poe). Then suddenly and bizarrely, all the guests started falling one after the other. Blood started splattering all around the halls. Then the clock stopped; with the last person dying in the

The golden shimmering crown was dimmed to silver as darkness encompassed the now forgotten light. Accompanying this shade was an ominous call from a crow that echoed in the hall. The room, rectangular and narrow, yearned for company. In the middle of this room was a now silver throne, and lying on it, a skeleton, regally posed with a goblet in grip. Chairs were home to cobwebs, their antiquate designs, never exposed to light. Years of absence showed in the walls, and the once purple tapestry, black as the heart of a raven. The door creaked open to muster a gust of light – the room welcomed this newfound hope with lust, and so followed this light, a domineering shadow. A man clad in dark armour, aura of sin, dominantly made his way to the crown. He brushed the skeleton into dust and claimed the royal jewels.

The color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet --a deep blood color” (Poe 18-21). These rooms are not just representing the colors of each room but the stages of life. Each room is a different color of life. While prince Prospero is going through each room talking to guests he sees a shade and tries to scare it away and even kill. “Solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple --through the purple to the green --through the green to the orange --through this again to the white --and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him. It was then, however, that the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers” (Poe 74-77). As he tries to kill it though he goes into the black room where he dies. The black is representing death with its blood red windows and the black colors on the wall as if it was part of the underworld. The rooms in this story represent the stages of life and most importantly, the black room represents

Describing the last of the seven chambers in the palace the narrator says, “there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls.” The story wouldn’t be as scary without this creepy room where the masked figure kills Prince Prospero. This leads to imagery, I can picture this room, eerie and creepy. In this story, there are also unreliable characters including Prince Prospero, his friend, and the Red Death. The Red Death to me is the most unreliable.

Initially, As I danced throughout the abbey, I perceived a strong and hard built wall to my left and right side. Prince Prospero was determined to entertain his friends with pleasure and satisfaction throughout their entertainment at the abbey. I just hate the fact that Prince Prospero never stops conversating. He just never keeps quiet. "Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you fellow knights are enjoying yourselves, but I need your attention for just a second", explained Prince Prospero. "Have you fellow friends noticed the decorations that I have made to the rooms?", questioned Prince Prospero. He proceeded on and on until we roamed out of the party and into some colored rooms. One room was blue with blue stained-glass windows, another room was purple with the same stained-glass windows, the other rooms were

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It was hard to find a seat in the hall, most of them were already taken. After wandering around looking for a place to rest my feet for what felt like hours, I found one single chair in the center of the room. That was when the bell rang, and each guest was presented with the largest plate of food anyone had ever seen. As I sat there eating I watched the soon to be King and Queen. They both seemed nervous, and were bitter toward one another. They did not share a look of love, but rather a look of brokenness. The brokenness faded and was replaced with excitement once the crown was brought out on the white satin pillow. That is when weird things began to happen.