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In “The Masque of The Red Death” Prince Prospero took his dames and knights into his mansion to escape the plague that was destroying the rest of society. This isolation is best described in by Poe who writes, “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light hearted friends among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retained to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.”(496) Prince Prospero isolated people he cared about into his mansion, while the rest of the people were left to die. The Prince also had welders weld the gates of the mansion so nobody could leave and

When he throws a huge masquerade party the ball takes place in a suite of the seven rooms were each one is dressed up in a different color blue, purple, orange, white, violet and black.”The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time”. The colors of the rooms symbolizes the seven stages of life from Shakespeare by showing how the first room represents the stage of a infancy working it’s way down towards the last stage of your life where the black room represents death. The seven stages of life and the seven rooms show how life is being divided into stages and each stage in our life are different from one

Edgar Allan Poe also uses theme to show that no woman or man can escape death. It is human nature, to attempt to escape death, and many of us in the modern world resort to extreme measures to postpone entering the “Seventh room” as long as possible. For example, some of us make unnecessary visits to physicians; refuse to prepare a will because they think that they can avoid the fact that everyone dies eventually. In prince Prospero’s case, he throws a masquerade ball to try to avoid the disease that is around him. This eventually ends up killing him. Another thing that lead up to the disease killing him is that he had the doors welded shut the gates and doors so that the natural disease could not reach him. That also meant that if something happened in the castle no one could get out.

The buildings had barrel vaults columns and windows and doors with rounded arches. The buildings were solid and heavy with small windows which made the insides very dimly lit. This lack of light is apparent in the film as a way to describe the general mindset and lifestyle of monastic life in the Middle Ages. Romanesque architecture is known for its large internal spaces. Annaud uses these Middle Age details in his construction of the set. As Professor Russell describes in the Medieval Culture lecture the different rooms of the monastery contained the cloister which connected the dormitory, refectory, scriptorium, kitchen, cellar, and herbal garden. The small windows, arched doorways and the non-human void of expressivity capitals and sculptures were all true to the times. Annaud constructed this Romanesque church set built specifically to shoot majority of the film. The attention and detail that he put into making sure that the backdrop provided a true and accurate account for how religious architecture was in the Middle Ages furthered the success of the film.

In the story it illustrated examples of how Prince Prospero attempted to avoid death and failed. For example in the beginning of the story there was a quote that said, “All these and security were within, without was Red Death”. What Edgar Allan Poe meant in this quote was that the Red Death was a horrible way to die. The people inside the abbey had assumed they were protected because the disease was on the outside. They were wrong because death was surrounding them, it was just getting closer and closer to the inside of the abbey.

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

Poe reveals the allegorical message of the rooms to prove that wealthy people are selfish. The different colors of the all the rooms in the abbey is an allegorical message. From east to west, the colors of the rooms represent the beginning of life to the end of life. The seventh room “was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet --a deep blood color” (Poe 4). Poe shows that the seventh room represents death and sorrow. Using allegorical phrases, he shows that wealthy people are selfish because they are partying in all of the rooms, except the black room which represents death. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the masquerade ball is an example of masking the death and despair on the outside of the duke’s castle. It is an example of Prince Prospero’s first attempts to hide from death. Wealthy

In “Mask of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe uses setting and symbolism to deliver the theme that no one escapes death. The story follows the naïve and pompous Prince Prospero, and his feeble attempt to escape dying from the Black Plague. As the plague spread through his kingdom, the prince called one thousand of his closest friends to reside within the safety of the castle in order to seclude themselves from the horror and death going on outside. During the last months of their seclusion, the prince decided to hold a masquerade ball in order to amuse his many guests living within the confines of the rather odd castle. The dance takes place in a variety of unusual apartments within the castle, spaced apart so the guests would only see one room at a time. The apartments flowed east to west, each decorated in a different color and theme while following a pattern of blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet and finally ending in black. During the ball, guests enjoyed a dreamlike atmosphere as they danced through the many colored apartments, each of them avoiding the final black room. This final dark patterned room contained a large ebony clock which chimed eerily every hour, causing the party goers to pause their merriment for a few moments of uneasy silence. As midnight drew near, a new guest arrived, sporting a costume more ghastly and morose than any other. The mask he wore resembled that of a plague victim, and his clothes resembled a funeral shroud. Prospero became angry

The abbey is fully stocked with supplies and entertainment: “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” (Poe 1). The luxury of the abbey shows the extent to which the opulent spend their money selfishly, instead of attending to their subjects. The masked stranger who arrives at the masquerade; “his vesture was dabbled in blood -- and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horrors”(Poe 4) scares the revelers and represents the disease that is ravaging the citizens outside the abbey. Just like the plague, it swept the people away in a horrible fashion “

There were seven --an imperial suite..., in blue --and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple... The third was green...The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange...the fifth with white ...the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries...But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet --a deep blood color. “The rooms are arranged from east to west. East is usually the direction the sun rises from, and west is where the sun sets. Connecting to how the rooms are set up.Blue in the east and black and red in the west. The blue room represents birth.The next room is purple,the beginnings of growth. Green is the "spring" of life (youth), orange the summer and autumn of life. White, suggests age,white hair, and bones. Violet represents darkness and death. And black, obviously, is

Now in the abbey, Prospero arranges in a row from east to west, seven colour-coded rooms in the palace. The colours and their representations are blue (birth), purple (youth), green (adolescence), orange (adulthood), white (old age), violet (imminent death), and black/scarlet (death itself). All of the rooms is an allegory of the progression of human life. The prince arranged the rooms from east to west. East is associated with “beginnings" such as birth because the sun rises in the east, and west being the opposing direction of east.

In the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo and other Igbo should be concerned about imperialism; they should not embrace imperialism as a welcome change. To begin, Okonkwo is one of the strongest men and is a control freak and he accidentally kills someone and is banished for 7 years. “Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent. He could return to the clan after seven years”(Achebe 105).

At first glance it seems as if Prince Prospero is doing the few others hidden in an abbey alongside himself where he has had the doors welded shut a favor. It looks like he’s trying to prevent them from death. This is no doubt for safety, but it’s also peculiar because it looks as though he is trying to prevent anyone from getting out, not just from getting in. This plot fact gives the story a very threatening atmosphere surrounding the abbey, but it also gives it a sort of power. Since no one can get in, Red Death seemingly can’t reach them. Prince Prospero is also a very uneasy or insane character and these people aren’t just locked up in any abbey with just anyone, they are locked up with the mad Prospero. Months after being locked up, Prince Prospero decides to do something fun and uplifting for the people who are surrounded by a kingdom overcome by death. It seems as though Prince Prospero is trying to lighten the mood for a fun night where he has a