Mask of The Red Death STUDY

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PRINCE THE MYSTERIOUS GUEST:-

THEMES:-
PROSPERO:- The embodiment of the Red Humanity’s
Wealthy Death. He is interpreted as a thief desire to
aristocrat who who comes in the night and steals escape
. out to be
turns everything and everyone’s death,
the ultimate happiness. human
victim of the red selfishness,
Furthermore, he is recounted as mortality,
death at the a plague that not only kills people foolishness
resolution of the but also leaves them severely ill. and madness
story that his
“A tall and gaunt figure shrouded
wealth was IMPORTANT
from head to foot in habiliments
irrelevant in the WORDS
of the grave. The mask which
natural cycle of Blood-bedewed
concealed the visage was made [wet with
life and death.
so nearly to resemble the blood], dance
He lacks macabre[dance
countenance of a stiffened of death]
empathy and is corpse” was his description. He is improvisatory[th
revengeful mysterious and evil ose who
improvise]

PLACE:-
The story is set in the Prince’s luxurious castellated abbey. The abbey was
built with the fortification of a castle; it is deeply secluded; its doors were
welded shut and there was no way in or out. They were trapped in it with no
connection to the outer world. The abbey had 7 apartments/chambers and a
ballroom where the guests danced all day long. On the other hand, the
external world was suffering because of the plague known as the Red Death.
They were brutally killed with “sharp pains, dizziness and profuse bleeding”
ROOM COLOR SYMBOLIZATION
1st blue birth
2nd purple Toddler age
3rd green adolescents
4th orange adulthood
5th white Middle age
6th violet Old age
7th black death

Ebony clock Symbol of life

Loud chiming of the clock Breaking the trance of life

People pausing when the Reminder of the time


clock chimes left/death

SYMBOLIZATION

The ball An escape from reality ,


an illusion created to give
people false hope

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