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  • The Masque of the Red Death

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    The Masque of the Red Death is the story of Prince Prospero and his hundreds of wealthy, noble guests on the night of a fabulous masquerade. Holed up in the Prince's private abbey because of fear of a plague sweeping through the unnamed country, Prospero and his guests have a night of forced merriment further intensified by the presence of a mysterious masked figure in red. At the story's conclusion the figure is revealed to be a personification of the plague and Prospero and his guests are doomed.

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  • Commentary on The Masque Of The Red Death

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    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

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    The short story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of a prince who abandons his kingdom to flee from the ravages of a disease called the Red Death He escapes with an entourage to a secluded abbey and celebrates with a masquerade ball However the epidemic arrives and enacts the demise of the prince and his company ultimately in the end In The Masque of the Red Death the author utilizes the elements of setting and symbolism to establish the thematic inevitability of dea

  • Life and Death in The Masque Of The Red Death

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    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

  • Allegory and Symbolism: Young Goodman Brown and The Mask of the Red Death

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    Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne In Salem Massachusetts in the 17th century in a community of god fearing Puritans lives Young Goodman Brown He is leaving his house and his young wife of three months Faith at dusk on an errand which will keep him away from home the whole night He is going to a witches sabbath to be inducted into devil worship His journey takes him through the forest which he enters with mixed feelings of doubt and excitement There he meets a strange man with a staff that

  • Allegory in The Masque Of The Red Death

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    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

  • Analysis of The Bell Jar

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    When we look at her childhood we see that Plaths father encouraged her precociousness and that Plaths mother made great efforts to see that her daughter would be successful in society She certainly came from a family that encouraged and rewarded her achievements and made it clear that discipline was one of the keys to success Was the ill fated short life of Plath really grounded in her fathers untimely death when she was barely eight years old She writes of this loss again and again but never d

  • Themes in Candide

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    Voltaire begins Candide by describing the images of Candides house a beautiful castle in Baron of Wesphalia The novel has not even begun and there is already a gossip about Candides potential to have had an unlawful son of the Baroness Candide is a character of complete navet and dullness and is always influenced by other characters of greater personality He is however a man of the kindest and caring heart and is always willing to help others in danger such as Jacques when he was almost execute

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