1. Questions
1.1. 1.What are symptoms of the Red Death?
1.1.1. The disease called the Red Death is fictitious. Poe describes it as causing “sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores” leading to death.
1.2. 2.Why Prince Prospero was seclusion of his castellated abbeys?
1.2.1. Prince Prospero's solution to the red death is to run, hide, and ignore at his castellated abbeys.
1.3. 3.The abbey has something is dangerous. Isn’t it?
1.3.1. No, in the abbey was amply provisioned and there was an extensive and strong.
1.4. 4.What happened in “Black chamber”?
1.4.1. The black chamber is the room in which Prince Prospero meets his end. It symbolizes how every being must face death at the end of their journey of life.
1.5. 5.“The ebony clock” refer to?
1.5.1. The big, black, creep clock is located in the black room, so it's not that hard to guess that it's meant to be a symbol of death.
1.6. 6. Why does the party stop every hour in The Masque of the Red Death?
1.6.1. Every time the clock strikes an hour, everyone stops to listen and reflect. Prince Prospero does not seem to care much about his people. Rather than take care of them during a time of trouble, he takes care of himself. His kingdom is besieged by a terrible plague called the Red Death, which kills you.
1.7. 7. What was Prince Prospero most afraid of?
1.7.1. Fear of disease and death is what drives Prospero to seek refuge from a dangerous plague that is spreading quickly throughout his kingdom.
1.8. 8. Who is the main character in The Masque of Red Death?
1.8.1. Prince Prospero
1.9. 9. What is Prince Prospero’s plan for survival?
1.9.1. When over half his country was dead he decided to have a huge party, barricading himself and his noble friends in a palace filled with entertainment.
1.10. 10. What does the Red Death do to a person how long does it take to die?
1.10.1. about half and hour
2. Theme
2.1. The main theme
2.1.1. The central theme in “The Masque of the Red Death” is the inevitable, or perhaps more accurately, the inescapable nature, of death. Prospero and his companions attempt to shut themselves off from the rest of the world in an attempt to avoid the horrible plague (the “red death”) that is ravaging the countryside.
2.2. Mortality
2.2.1. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" is full of images and symbols of death. The characters in the story all try to ignore and escape death, preferring to stay focused on living life to its fullest. But mortality can't be avoided, as they are reminded when Death literally crashes their party.
2.3. Versions of Reality
2.3.1. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" immerses us in an atmosphere that feels more dreamlike than real. Everything feels fantastic and imagined, like a work of art spun out of control. In this world, it's almost impossible it to draw the line between what's real and what's a product of Prospero's half-mad mind.
2.4. Fear
2.4.1. Edgar Allen Poe's main aim in "The Masque of the Red Death" is to create a growing sense of fear and dread in his reader. Over the course of the story, their fear builds in a clearly traceable manner, from a nervous unease to an "unutterable horror" at the climax. There's nothing in the world Poe creates which lets the reader feel at home, no source of comfort or stability.
2.5. Foolishness and Folly
2.5.1. "The Masque of the Red Death" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works. In it, Prospero's court, who foolishly believe they can ignore the looming presence of death, live life to the full. When a plague strikes, they retreat to a pleasure palace to keep on partying, with buffoons and alcohol galore. They refuse to give death the time of day.
3. Plot
3.1. Exposition
3.1.1. The story's set up in the first two paragraphs: It's the Red Death, the horrible disease that's ravaging the countryside. Then we meet Prince Prospero, whose countryside and peasant folk it is that are being ravaged. He's retreated to his castellated abbey and shut himself in with his friends.
3.2. Rising Action
3.2.1. Guests are bewildered and amused by the grandiose rooms that Prospero has created. Each room, beginning from the east, is marked by a different color. The last room, black with red windows, is so disturbing that no one enters. A mysterious ebony clock within the room chimes every hour, halting the exaltations of the party.
3.3. Conflict
3.3.1. Prospero throws a masquerade ball. Tension builds as we learn the details of the party. Every weird little thing we learn about – the strange layout of the suite, the ghastly look of the black room, the giant clock that ominously tolls the hour and makes everyone laugh nervously. Poe's descriptions of the wild "dancing dreams" (the partiers) add a sense of frantic frenzy.
3.4. Climax
3.4.1. Prince Prospero faces death…and dies. Prospero's charge after the "spectral figure" brings the story to its highest moment of tension: the moment of epic confrontation, when the Red Death turns around to face Prospero. It doesn't last long, since Prospero falls down and dies immediately. Now we're rushing towards the end of the story, and things do not look good.
3.5. Falling action
3.5.1. The suspense in this story literally lasts a sentence. Just long enough for the outraged revelers to discover that the guy in Red Death costume who just killed their Prince is actually the Red Death. And he's still angry he wasn't invited to the party. We wonder how this situation will be resolved
3.6. Denouement
3.6.1. Everybody dies. And gets their blood all over Prospero's beautiful fabrics. The revelers die, the clock dies, the candles die, and the party's over. And so is the story.
4. Narrator point of view
4.1. The narrator speaks in the third-person and doesn't occupy any particular character's point of view. Most of the time he's more interested in describing the setup of Prospero's party. He prefers taking a "bird's eye" view of the crowd of revelers to lodging himself in any of their heads
5. Characters
5.1. Prince Prospero
5.1.1. Type of character: Protagonist, flat, static character
5.1.2. The wealthy people brave friendly
5.2. Thousand friends
5.2.1. Type of character: minor character
5.2.2. The thousand friends are courtiers and friends who come to live in the abbey
5.3. Red Death
5.3.1. Type of character: Antagonist, flat, static character
5.3.2. The Red Death is death personified.
5.4. Aged
5.4.1. Type of character: minor character
5.4.2. The people who stay in apartment
6. Setting
6.1. Time
6.1.1. Fifth or sixth month
6.1.1.1. Describe about how long Prince Prospero was seclusion.
6.1.2. Night
6.1.2.1. Describe the night of the masquerade party in the chamber
6.1.3. Midnight
6.1.3.1. The time of that day by clock sounding
6.1.4. At sunrise
6.1.4.1. The time in the morning
6.2. Place
6.2.1. Castellated abbeys
6.2.1.1. Type of setting: Integral setting
6.2.1.2. The extensive magnificent structure of the prince
6.2.2. The external world
6.2.2.1. Type of setting: Backdrop setting
6.2.2.2. Not know where is the place, maybe outside dangerous
6.2.3. The apartment
6.2.3.1. Type of setting: Integral setting
6.2.3.2. Place at castellated abbeys
6.2.4. Seven apartment, seven chambers
6.2.4.1. Type of setting: Integral setting
6.2.4.2. Rooms in the abbey. There are 7 seven type of each chamber
7. Symboloc
7.1. Seven rooms in the abbey
7.1.1. considered the progression of life representing birth (blue), youth (purple), adolescence (green), adulthood (orange), old age (white), imminent death (violet), and death itself (black/scarlet)
7.2. The Clock
7.2.1. The big, black, creep clock is located in the black room, so it's not that hard to guess that it's meant to be a symbol of death.
7.3. The castled abbey
7.3.1. The abbey as a symbol of worldly power.
7.4. The Red Death
7.4.1. The Red Death is, death it's a spectacularly gruesome form of death.
7.5. The dream
7.5.1. Imagination suggests a frenzied, dizzying scene. It's uncontrolled, and all mixed-up. It's like the whole world is whirling around, as tends to happen in a bad dream.
7.6. Masked ball
7.6.1. An attempt to have fun, avoid unpleasant things by pretending everything it's Okay
7.7. Prince Prospero
7.7.1. The wealthy, privileged people; the upper class.
7.8. Black apartment
7.8.1. The grave, a coffin, forebodes of death.