The Masque Of The Red Death: An In Depth Review Of The Image

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Though it was derived from the french dialect, it first became popular in Italy in the 16th century, where our story takes place. The word “masque” is significant not only to set the scene but to foreshadow the future of the story.
Prince Prospero tries to dodge the red death through isolation and seclusion. The plot of the story becomes Man vs. Nature. Can Prospero and his thousand guest outrun death and fate? He places on a masque to almost taunt death. Yet if the reader is an observant one, they will already have concluded from the story’s title that the masked Red Death is the true owner of Prince Prospero’s masque. He and his guest cannot escape death, which the reader then uses to derive the story’s theme. This foreshadowing and other elements of Poe’s work gives the reader a look into the world of the grotesque.
“The distortion of all ingredients; the fusion of different realms; the coexistence of beauty, bizzare, ghastly, and repulsive elements; the merger of the ...

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life of a human being, from earliest youth to the day of the person’s grave death. All the suits except the seventh are illuminated by fire, which critics have argued resembles life and death within one’s life span. Each room has characteristics of its own. Each suit means a different thing. Thus they must be explained accordingly for the reader to get the full image of Poe’s work.
The first suit was colored in the theme of blue, symbolizing either birth or earliest morning. The windows were stained in accordance and tapestries were hung in theme, as were all the rooms.
The first room is succeeded by one of purple, an infusion of blue with the warmer tone of red, meaning the rapid ...

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