Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Masque of the Red Death
- Setting
- Kingdom
- Castle
- Ball
- Main Characters
- The red death
- Prince Prospero
- Theme
- Death is inevitable you can’t escape it no matter how wealthy or powerful you are, and we are all
subject to the passing of time
- 7 symbols of the 7
rooms
- Blue = birth
- Purple = youth
- Green = adolescence
- Orange =
adulthood
- White = old age
- Violet = imminent death
- Black/Scarlet = death itself
- Ebony Clock
- The clock symbolizes the time that we have left on earth, the clock is ticking towards the end which is
death
- Conflicts/Solutions
- Conflict- Prince Prospero’s attempt to evade and defeat death
- Major Events
- Terrible diseases called red death has killed half the kingdom, He doesn’t care about the poor but
asks the wealthy to join him in the castle, Never ending party in the castle, Welded in nobody’s coming
in or going out
- Five to six months later the prince has a masquerade ball, Set up in 7 different rooms all different
colors, colors symbolize life, Black room symbolizes death and nobody wants to go in that room, The
clock is marching toward the beat of time which is death
- The party is wild and the clock strikes midnight everyone falls dead silent, Some dancers notice guest
has entered wearing a costume symbolizing the read death, Nobody has the guts to unmask the
guest
- The guest walks through all rooms directly to the room of death, The prince tries stabbing the guest
but the guest is just a plague, Only 3 things left darkness, decay, and the red death
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