Personal Narrative: Attack Of The Red Death

On 09/12/2016, I Deputy Daniel Pruitt was dispatched to 52455 West Highway 16 for an unattended death compliant. I arrived on scene st 6:45pm and meet with Creek County EMS unit 40.

One memory resounds in my head. My mind wanders and I think about my parents. Such good people, taken in the blink of an eye. They were never supposed to get this disease. We were a wealthy family.

Edgar Allen Poe’s chilling short story Mask of the Red Death begins with people dropping like flies, as the king of the land decides to take his close friends with him to live in one of his palaces. leaving his subjects to survive on their own. A puzzling creature known as the Red Death has been terrorizing and killing off people one by one, and no one has a way to stop it. Through characterization of both Prospero and the Red Death, Poe foreshadows Prospero’s eventual death in the end of the story.

Edgar Allan Poe, a popular writer, who lived during the mid-1800s wrote gothic short stories and poetry. In one of his stories,“The Masque of the Red Death,” there is a prince, Prince Prospero, who locks himself and a chosen group of people into his castle to escape from a contagious pestilence, “the Red Death”. At the castle, he throws a masquerade ball and an unknown figure shows up looking like the disease. Nobody knows who it is or how they got in, throughout the story, the figure leads them through the castle and traps them, killing everyone at the castle. Poe uses the gothic elements of hallucinations, castles, and dramatic setting or behavior to create this horrific and suspenseful world.

The standard perception concerning human limitations has it that the potential of humankind knows no bounds. Yet, the cycle of life disproves this recurrent opinion of human potential. Based upon the realistic scope of their own abilities, the phrase, “the sky’s the limit”, are well within the bounds of the timeless concepts of life and death. These ideas are common points amongst works of literature from the American Romantic Period. Moreover, one of the most prominent Romantics is Edgar Allan Poe, who utilizes seemingly natural attributes of human interactions, and expands them out of proportion in order to reveal the gloominess of those said attributes. Poe’s literary works encompass many aspects that are reflective of the Romantic Period; his works include the acknowledgement of nature or setting, emphasis on individuals and groups of people, and elements of the supernatural; such use of Romantic attributes also leads to a plausible interpretation of an indirect rejection of the establishment of religion. The utilization of these qualities appears frequently in Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, which is a fictional account of a burgeoned plague and its multitude of effects on the wealthy survivors. Furthermore, a key point in the short story is the particular choice of setting: a gothic quarantine, which intertwines many Romantic elements. In particular, the quarantine of “The Masque of the Red Death”, is a symbol of human limitations and the

By the time my PopPaw was diagnosed the disease was progressing fast. My Mom and I would take turns with my Aunt in going every other weekend to help care for him. I was the only grandchild that had the strength to face the problem and never give up on him. I would read to him and tell him all about my activities. We would watch shows on tv and I tried so hard to be patient when having to explain things to him multiple times a day. He lost the ability to walk and was unable to leave the house unassisted. This was devastating to a man that thrived on being outside and when this happened he went into a deep depression. My Mom, my Aunt and my MomMaw struggled to get him to eat and interact. I was the only person he would talk to and even eat for with encouragement. But my Mom would say, “I don’t think it is good to put that much pressure on Amelia. She is so young and it is a huge burden for her to bear to be responsible for keeping him

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mask of the Red Death” is a magnificent story and also a suspenseful story. It will brings chills to the body when reading the story. “The Mask of the Red Death” is about a prince named Prospero who brings in his friends into a abbey where he thinks the red death can not enter. He decided to have a party and a stranger with a mask was at the party and look quite dead. Unfortunately, the prince then finds out that the red death was inside the abbey. Poe’s story of the red death works because of the choices he makes as a writer. In “The Mask of the Red Death” There are different elements of author’s craft that was used to make an effective story.

Edgar Allan Poe was a great poet, but he was mainly known for his tragic, dark short stories. “Masque of the Red Death” is one such story, about the pusillanimous prince, Prospero, who locked himself and a thousand select people, locking out all the rest to hide from “The Red Death.” A plague that according to the story once you were infected with it, no one helped you, “...Shut out from the aid and from sympathy of his fellow men.” (Poe 446).

Once upon a time a few centuries ago I was a little girl who was energetic and adventurous, but one day all of that changed. I was in the yard playing tag with my sister and two brothers but then we heard “the bell.” The bell meant the sickness, black plague, was in town. When the people began to hear the bell they ran all over the place causing a panic and knocking on doors making sure everyone knew what was happening.

An allegory is a story intended to be read on a symbolic level, characters, settings and events are meant to have deeper meaningsindependent from the actions in the story. In “The Masque of the Red Death” there are seven rooms where Prince Prospero holds his masquerade ball, where each room is a specific color to represent different stages in life. My mask alligns with the symbolic meaning of each color in the short story along with additional mean all coming together to represent who I am as a person. I split my mask in half, one half representing the strong and hurt part of me, where the other half represents the ambitious fun side of me that most people see. The left side of the mask has colors such has black, dark red, purple, yellow

In Aesop’s fable, “The Wolf and the Lamb,” the moral of the story asks the reader to examine the desire for an object—and how we justify our behavior if we cannot obtain that object. This moral is graphically presented through the repeated use of key words to describe the fox’s repeated failure to get what he wants. The fox’s first attempt is foiled as he “just missed” the grapes (35). He attempts “again and again”, running and jumping repeatedly, but has “no greater success” (35). He then becomes disgusted and walks away. These successive descriptions of his failure build to his disdainful comment that the grapes are probably sour (35). The repeated demonstration of fox’s failures and his self-rationalization of why is he walking away—not

I interviewed someone and they have just lost a loved one to the disease. Melissa has just lost her father and she is not sure that she will be able to survive without her father there for her. She said “We are living in a nightmare and I can’t believe that there is so many people suffering and there is nothing that we can do. I’m so afraid that I will get it next and I don’t know how I can give other people hope who are going through a similar thing.” Thanks Melissa, I know what she is going through and I want to say to everybody that you need to have hope.

A fatal disease has spread to a fictional country where the story takes place. Known as the Red Death, this plague is widely known for taking the lives of half the kingdom to date. The suffering look to their leader Prince Prospero for heroism, but he proves to be no leader as he’s cowering in his deeply secluded castle avoiding the mess in its entirety. He left the poor to thrive for themselves while he, and many of his knights and fine women would join him for one never-ending party. There was music, women, dancing, food, entertainment-everything that you would ever need, Prince Prospero would have. He would weld the doors shut to ensure no one could enter. Meaning no one can get out either…..

Have you ever read a story where fantasy is the reality and things do not quite make sense? This is true for “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe. In it is a version of the black plague, which is called the “Red Death”. Prince Prospero secludes a thousand friends and himself from the death around them, but finds that he cannot avoid the inevitable. The author uses many literary devices to create an interesting and meaningful story. One of the devices used is imagery, which evokes the events of the story clearly in the reader’s mind. Another is allegory, which is used by Poe to create another story within his, as it is filled with double meanings. Lastly, Poe utilizes symbolism to give the story meaning. Edgar Allan Poe uses

Don’t attempt to change your fate, I’m warning you. “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Monkey’s Paw” are examples of why not to mess with your fate. In both stories, the characters attempted changing their fate and ends in a very bad outcome. The characters, both learned that if you try changing your fate there is going be a horrific consequence.