In an unknown country a ruler named Prince Prospero has quarantined himself and one thousand of his closest friends within his castle to escape from the widespread Red Death which is plaguing the land In describing the unique nature of this illness Blood was its Avatar and its seal the redness and the horror of blood There were sharp pains and sudden dizziness and then profuse bleeding at the pores with dissolution And the whole seizure progress and termination of the disease were the incidents
The Masque of the Red Death The story The Masque of the Red Death is a thought turning tale of a country possibly a fictional country that endured a murderous plague It was a traumatizing pain stricken time and many people died horrible deaths Edgar Alan Poe the author captured the story from his detailed perspective He described the rooms as if the personalities of the environments where alive The elements of the plague where horrific skin crawling and killed with no remorse It represents life
An allegory is a story poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning typically a moral or political one In the story a terrible disease called the Red Death struck the country Its incredibly fatal and gruesome and it had already killed off half the kingdom The ruler of the kingdom Prince Prospero does not care about the decease of his kingdom and proceeds to throw a masquerade ball in his mansion far away in the woods During the ball a masked person appears and he portrays