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The Masque of the Red Death
Title: The Masque of the Red Death
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 821 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Masque of the Red Death
Justin Hill
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The Masque of the Red Death
In Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death”, he uses symbolism of
the rooms, time, and the red death to portray his theme that no one can escape death.
The masque was held in Prince Prospero’s imperial suite that consisted of seven
different and symbolic rooms. The fact that there where seven rooms was symbolic in
itself. Many …showed first 75 words of 821 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 821 total…in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which
they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.” The figure,
who stood in the shadow of the clock, now casts a shadow on revelers who lie dead on
the ground.
Prince Prospero and his courtiers could not escape death. Masked with it own
identity, Death came like a thief in the night and took and “held illimitable dominion over
all.”
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