The Masque Of Red Death: The Masque Of Poe

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In
the story red stand for the death that comes over everyone in the story.
In Poe's life it stands for the diseases that has killed everyone important
to him, tuberculoses. Blue is the color of the first room, in Poe's life
it is supposed to be him. The second room in the story is the color purple,
this color is for Poe's mother. Then there is a green room, this room is
for his brother. There was also an orange room for Poe's foster mother,
Mrs. Allan. The white room was for his wife Virginia, and the violet room
for her death. Last there was the black room, which was for Poe's death.
What is time? Is time something that people just made up ? Poe
seems to think that it means life. In the story a clock symbolizes life.
In the story every time the clock would time the hour the party would stop,
because everyone wanted to make sure that there time was not yet over.
Another thing that Poe uses to show life is east and west. He had all the
rooms start in the east and ...

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