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A 3 page essay that discusses the symbolic imagery used by Poe in this short story. The omnipresent fact of death is something that people try in vain to ignore. Everyone bleeds. Everyone dies. Money, privilege, and high social status will not protect anyone from the great leveler of death. This is the point made by Edgar Allan Poe's in his short story "The Masque of the Red Death," which is a profoundly allegorical tale that uses the symbolism of color to graphically emphasize the inevitability of death. No additional sources cited.
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point made by Edgar Allan Poes in his short story "The Masque of the Red Death," which is a profoundly allegorical tale that uses the symbolism of color to graphically
emphasize the inevitability of death. The narrative begins by describing the Red Death, a pestilence so "fatal" and "hideous," that no one survives and death comes very quickly in
"half an hour" (Poe). This disease, with its profuse bleeding, identifies the blood and the color red with mortality and death. Against this horrific reality, Poe then describes Prince Prospero
and his revelers, who retire to the safety of the Princes well-provisioned and fortified abbey, leaving the suffering world to "take care of itself" (Poe) and to enjoy the Princes
considerable provision for entertainment. After several months, the Prince plans a "masked ball of the mot unusual magnificence" (Poe). It is in describing the layout and d?cor of the rooms
where the ball will take place that Poe makes his point clear about the meaning of his symbolism. There are seven rooms and each room has a particular color theme,
with even the stained glass in the windows matching. The eastern most room is blue; the second is purple; third, green; fourth, orange; fifth, white; and the sixth was violet.
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that the windows did not match, as their
panes were "scarlet-a deep blood color" (Poe). As Shakespeare so famously states, a lifetime can be divided into seven ages. The first room, the blue room, is symbolic in
its location, as well as its color, as it is closest to the dawn, i.e., the beginning of life. The color associated with each age grows progressively warmer in nature
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