What the prince had thought to believe would give them hope in life from sealing this plague outside of the place, had instead kept him to his death, unable to run any further from it. Irony was something that there was few examples of but there was one large one that was evident in the entire story: Prince Prospero had locked himself and others inside his castellated abbey, and the Red Death brought itself upon the place, and the entire group and the Prospero himself, had locked themselves inside of the abbey, sealing their deaths. Time is an pending doom for anyones death, and Edgar did an amazing job making it so that the people knowingly knew that there death was apparent. It was something that brought upon the horror and depression among them, as they once again frolicked into their merriment afterwards.
It represented time they had left it life, “, the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused revery or mediation.” until the independent doom of what is the Red Death, was brought among them. This is another piece of symbolism that shows that it shows how death is a harsh, cruel, inevitable fact, and Edgar illiterates it well.Ī large piece of symbolism in the story, although simplistic, was the large, ebony clock. The rooms shown the progression of life, and how it had always come to an end. Each room symbolized the stages of life, from the start of birth, where everything is blue, purple was to represent the development in life, green for nourishment or development in life, orange for the setting of the sun which also meant the end of day, or the end of life white for the ascension to heaven, and scarlet, for death. The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood colour.” Was how the final room was described. “…The colours failed to correspond with the decorations. Poe uses many instances of symbolism and some irony to depict the theme of the story, as the Red Death “… held illimitable dominion over all.” In the story, Prospero, a prince attempts to avoid the Red Death by isolating himself in one of his many castellated abbeys.
“The Masque of the Red Death”, Written by Edgar Allen Poe, is a short story that emphasizes on the inevitability of death.
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