The Unicorn's Fear Depicted In The Red Bull

The book Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe, that is a gothic story. This is about a prince hiding from the plague. He closed the gate and party to forget about the plague. He bring his friends because they can be safe and run from the disease. Then later many people died when an uninvited person came to the party. This book shows that you can not escape from fear by hiding in a lock castle and the price is careless..

Imagine dancing through the colorful stages of life, birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and such. However, as you progress through life, you can never shake a sense of foreboding lurking behind you. Suddenly, deep, dark, death devours you. Death, everyone faces it eventually. In the story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, the theme is, “You cannot avoid death.” Poe develops the theme by using many different symbols throughout the story.

Emotion and logic can affect people’s actions. Emotion such as fear though can be helpful to us in certain situations. Fear is a natural reaction, or instinct, that can help you survive. Feelings, like fear makes people more alert and cautious of your surroundings. But, if clouded by fear, it can make you over worried about things that you find scary. Focusing on one thing can also lead to obsession and paranoia over an object. In Edgar Allan Poe’s stories - “The Tell Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Masque of Red Death” - all the main characters experience fear and all main characters are affected differently by fear. Poe uses symbolism, irony, and imagery in these stories to emphasize how fear distorts the narrator’s mind

Liz Brent states, ‘Edgar Allan Poe’s short story ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ may be interpreted variously as a parable for man’s fear of death.’ This specific quote gives great description on the feelings of the main character in this story. The conflicts overall play a major part in the story. As Kenneth Graham says, “If time is the destroyer of all things material, so, too, is the pendulum the destroyer in the pit, and the ebony lock in.” The critic is explaining the overall conflict of this story, and displays how the ebony clock is the symbol for death. In all, conflict is important to the story, as it ties back to the themes and describes the problems occurred.

I have spotted multiple themes though out this novel but, the main two themes I was were Good vs. Evil and Being Self-Sufficient. The main characters the tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Loin were heavily insecure about themselves. The scarecrow didn’t t think he was smart enough so he traveled with them to get a brain. The lion didn’t think he was brave enough so he traveled with them to get some courage. Though out the novel we see that the scarecrow is the smartest out of the group and that the lion risked he own life many times to save his friends.

This is a horrible time for the teenager as she fears for her mother's life. Mattie’s sadness soon takes its toll, “ I ran sobbing to the window. Breathing in the fresh air helped calm my stomach. The houses along the street were shuttered tight and dark.”(69) The stress of death and dying in Mattie’s life starts to make her emotions rise and affects her health. A Quaker prophecy in Philadelphia said, “ He who sitteth upon the Pale Horse, He whose name is death, will be sent through the streets of Philadelphia.”(113). The people were afraid of God’s wrath because of sinful behavior. Furthermore it gives another example of how people looked at the fever, using the pale horse which represents

Fear and Symbolism make up a big part of the Lord of the Flies book. They co-exist amazingly in this book. Symbols appear everywhere in the book, from the conch to the beast, they all symbolize a part of our life today.

The one thing I have to say I enjoyed the most about the book was one of the themes of the book, acceptance. I liked this theme because majority of people can relate to the theme easily. All characters in the novel went through an adventure once the carnival arrived. In the beginning Charles Halloway did not see himself as the a good father to his son, William. Mr. Halloway was in his mid 50's and by being that old he could not connect with his son like a younger father could. “That’s Charles Halloway, thought Will, not grandfather, not far-wandering, ancient uncle, as some might think, but…my father” (14), Will didn’t see much in his father, just an old man and that was only because that was how Mr. Halloway showed himself. In Something Wicked This Way Comes it seems like people have a terrible time accepting their age. When the carnival comes into town it takes full advantage over that. Mr. Dark and his freaks can’t get to everyone though, Charles soon realizes the what the carnival’s weakness is. Charles Halloway destroyed the carnival, “All because he accepted everything at last, accepted the carnival, the hills beyond, the people in the hills, Jim, Will, and above all himself and all of life, and, accepting, threw back his head for the second time tonight and showed his acceptance

Fear, an emotion induced by a perceived threat by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior. Clair Rosenfield evaluated Lord of the Flies from a psychological standpoint stating “The younger children first, then gradually the older ones… begin to people the darkness of night and forest    with spirits and demons which had previously appeared only in their dreams or fairy tales.” (Document A) Based on Rosenfield’s observations the “Beast” is merely a figment of the boys’ fears centralized into

In ‘’the Masque of the Red Death’’ the feeling the author Edgar Allan Poe is trying to give is he wants the readers to feel scared. In the story there are multiple places that Poe is trying to show that it is scary. For example, ‘’ there were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.” This shows that Poe is trying to make it scary because hearing that this sickness could make you bleed at the pores just puts this awful scary image in the readers head. The Red Death is portraying tuberculosis so when people read this they know that this is a real disease and people actually get it so it makes them worry about if they can get it or not. Another example would be “there were twelve strokes to

It is understandable for children to fear monsters and boogeymen. In the book, Lord of The Flies, written by William Golding, a group of English schoolboys are isolated on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean during the wake of World War II. Hearing stories and seeing the outcast of the war made the boys form an imaginary “beast”. Defining what this beast represents is tough considering the meaning of it evolves throughout the book.

themes to help suggest this fear. He uses the Doppelgänger theme, which is used when he describes the reflection of the house in the

When it comes to reading literature the most challenging yet important task is to understand the purpose of the author's writing. In Romantic era literature understanding the emotions and thoughts that are created in the reader's mind are essential to gaining a clear message that the writer is trying to send. In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death” the narrator immediately introduces the “Red Death”; a disease that has been spreading throughout Prince Prospero’s country; killing his people within half an hour of contracting the disease. Throughout the story the author continuously uses diction and syntax to create suspense and evoke a grim tone to the reader. In the “Masque of The Red Death” Poe produces fearful imagery in the reader's mind through creating a supernatural presence in the setting.

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

In the Last Unicorn, once the unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and leaves the safety of her forest to search for the others. While in isolation, the unicorn lacks the experience of emotions that carry the wisdom she needs to save the unicorns from King Haggard and the Red Bull. As a unicorn, she cannot feel love and never “can never regret” (Beagle 55), but she fears the Red Bull who tries to herd her into the sea. However, it is not only her lack of emotions that make her weak in the beginning but her failure to control her fear and challenge the Bull weakens her character. During the first confrontation of the Bull, “the moment the unicorn faced him, frozen as wave about to break. Then the light of her horn went out, and she turned and fled” (Beagle 113). Characters need a stereotype baseline to grow from, and in this case, the unicorn becomes a damsel in distress saved by Schmendrick the Magician by transforming her into a human. A character needs to experience a moment of weakness in order to grow as a character and be strong enough to challenge the powerful villains. Her fear adds another dimension to her because the readers know that she is not impervious to failure even though she is a magical creature much greater than man. This confrontation with the bull provokes the growth of the unicorn because as a mortal, she will experience the emotions necessary to be strong enough to conquer King Haggard and his Red Bull. The initial confrontation serves to