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The Masque of the Red Death

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Mind Map on The Masque of the Red Death, created by Michelle Amdahl on 10/06/2016.
Michelle Amdahl
Mind Map by Michelle Amdahl , updated more than 1 year ago
Michelle Amdahl
Created by Michelle Amdahl about 9 years ago
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The Masque of the Red Death
  1. Setting
    1. Kingdom
      1. Castle
        1. Ball
        2. Main Characters
          1. The red death
            1. Prince Prospero
            2. Theme
              1. 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
              2. 7 symbols of the 7 rooms
                1. Blue = birth
                  1. Purple = youth
                    1. Green = adolescence
                      1. Orange = adulthood
                        1. White = old age
                          1. Violet = imminent death
                            1. Black/Scarlet = death itself
                            2. Ebony Clock
                              1. The clock symbolizes the time that we have left on earth, the clock is ticking towards the end which is death
                              2. Conflicts/Solutions
                                1. Conflict- Prince Prospero’s attempt to evade and defeat death
                                2. Major Events
                                  1. 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
                                    1. 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
                                      1. 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
                                        1. 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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