What Is There Fear In The Masque Of The Red Death

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..

In "The Masque Of The Red Death", Edgar Allan Poe uses words and phrases to create an effect. He uses bold and dark words to help his readers be able to picture a very good image of the story and the mood that he wants to set. When he claiming that, "no pestilence had ever been so fatal ", that let the readers know that is was probably a very strong and gruesome disease that killed many of the town people. When Poe starts the story he starts by describing "The Red Death" and its symptoms. He described it as, "sharp pains, sudden dizziness, profuse bleeding at the pores with dissolution", "seizure process and termination of the disease were the incident of half and hour", he lists the symptoms as if it were a recipe, he is very straightforward and uses words that give an image to every symptom, he completely lets the reads know that "the red death" was a very nasty painful disease and you could imagine how much it made the characters suffer all in half

The author, Edgar Allan Poe, using illusion or misdirection keeps the reader is suspense throughout this story called "The Masque of the Red Death". Symbolism such as the colored rooms, the impressive clock, the feeling of celebration being at a party all makes this story feel like a fairytale. Poe used this fairytale style and converts it into a nightmare in disguise.

Throughout the gothic horror short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe illustrates the struggle of an egotistical prince who refuses to face the inevitable reality of death. Through the downfall of the protagonist, Poe establishes the idea that the inability to face reality often leads to the destruction of the mind. The downfall of the Prince is emphasized by Poe’s use of characterization, setting, and symbolism.

Conflicts affect the mood of the main characters in a story, by expressing the insecurities, Death,” a couple of conflicts are exposed throughout the piece. In the story “The Masque of the Red,” a couple of conflicts are expressed throughout this piece. The conflicts man versus fate and man versus himself are the conflicts that are displayed several times within this story. From major conflicts to minor conflicts, this story clarifies the problems that Prince Prospero faces within himself. In addition to Prince Prospero’s problems with himself, this story also explains the conflict of how death is uncontrollable.

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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are best shadowly and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” (Poe). There is no such thing as having the ability to predict or tame the wrath of death, for all we can do is learn to accept it. In the story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, the main character, Prospero, shows through his arrogant actions that death will forever overpower the human instinct to stay alive. Poe uses symbolism to convey the battle between man and nature through the idea of the masquerade that serves as a fortress against the wrath of the disease, an excuse to disguise the true colors of man, and the honest truth that man will never become immortal.

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

“There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.” Poe uses the disease as a curse, it eventually ends up killing everybody and there is no way to stop the doom. It is used as a curse by showing it cannot be stopped and from it being created from a supernatural being, which is the ghost who enters the castle and gives everyone the red death. The curse is what the whole story is based on, and the reason everyone dies.

Diseases have been categorized as under a derogatory and lamentable category. However, Dr.Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince approach diseases from a different view in their scientific book Survival of the Sickest . They discuss that if diseases weren 't helpful, shouldn 't they have been eliminated through natural selection or shouldn 't humans have developed resistance to them through the use of evolution? Moalem and Prince answer the questions by going back in time and analyzing the uses of diseases, and come across surprises that may help humans in the future as they may have in the past. Though Moalem and Prince discussed many diseases in their book Survival of the Sickest, three diseases really stood out.

The story “Masque of the Red Death” uses many symbols throughout the story. The story begins telling about the grim disease that killed many people. It spreads quickly and kills within 30 minutes. The Prince Prospero, who symbolized the rich and prosperous, wanted to throw a great masked ball where no one would get in or out so the disease couldn’t spread or be brought into the palace. As the ball went on there a clock that rang every hour. It stopped the people from dancing and symbolized time passing. The people just resumed dancing after it rang like it was nothing, however. The party was going fine until an intruder invaded the ball. This intruder symbolized the Red Death, and “came like a thief in the night”. The prince tried to stop him with the aid of a knife, but then fell dead, like the rest did after. “Masque of the Red Death” used lots of symbols in it such as the Prince, who represented the rich, the clock, that represented the time passing by and the people’s inevitable death, and the intruder, who represented the Red Death and how merciless it was.

In the story “The Masque of the Red Death” a kingdom is overrun with a disease known as the Red Death that has killed nearly half the people living there. The ruler named Prospero takes his subjects behind the gates of his castle and ignores the destruction of the plague. After several months, Prospero throws a masquerade ball with seven decorated rooms. The final room is decorated red and black and contains an ebony clock in which the guests ignore. A new guest appears and passes the gates of the castle due to spots of blood on his clothing.

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

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

    Some major concepts of reader-response criticism, as discussed by Ross Murfin in The Scarlet Letter: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, are these: (1) reading is a temporal process in which the reader lives through the experience of the text and (2) the experience that the reader undergoes may mirror the subject of the story. One reader's experience of "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe can exemplify these two concepts.