![]() ![]() The rest of his kingdom suffers from horrifying symptoms, including “profuse bleeding at the pores…which shut out the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men” (para. Poe’s use of imagery to contrast Prince Prospero’s opulence with the Red Death’s darkness emphasizes the human nature to avoid and suppress the inevitability of death, despite futility in doing so.Īt the beginning of the short story, Prince Prospero appears to be prospering. The gruesome figure is actually the embodiment of the Red Death and proceeds to kill the prince and all of his guests. ![]() After seeing a gruesome-looking individual disrupting the merry-making, Prince Prospero yells angrily and chases the being with a dagger. After leaving his people and his country to be killed by the plague, Prince Prospero takes a break from social distancing to throw a very opulent party. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Read Death” describes a country devasted by a horrendous contagion called the Red Death. ![]()
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