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This 7 page paper discusses Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Mask of the Red Death” as a work of psychological fiction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of menace he invokes, more than makes up for any lack. Besides, his sometimes imprecise characterizations mean that the reader can put himself in the situation, and find himself scared
stiff. This paper uses both the text and outside sources to discuss Poes psychological insights into the characters in "The Masque of the Red Death." Discussion Poes stories often have
a moral; this one is no exception and the meaning is simple: death will not be denied. But most sources describe the story as one of "psychological horror," and we
will explore that theme further. The story is narrated by someone who was there and saw the events, which presents a problem in itself that well tackle later. Prince Prospero
invites 1,000 of his closest friends, nobles and their ladies all, no one from the lower classes, to accompany him to a refuge away from the city and the red
death that is ravaging it (Poe). They relocate to a ruined abbey where Prospero not only locks the gates, but has them welded shut (Poe). There the prince and his
entourage party for six months while the plague ravages the rest of the country, apparently leaving the abbey untouched (Poe). At last on the night of a grand ball, an
unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse, and it is streaked with blood, the way the red death itself strikes. The
Prince is both frightened and outraged, and orders his men to unmask the person, but there is something about the figure that keeps them from attacking him. At last the
Prince does so himself, only to fall dead (Poe). At that, the Princes men finally attack the stranger, only to find that the wrappings are empty; its Death himself who
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