Initially, the story was published in Graham’s Magazine in May 1842. The readers attempt to find the true nature of the disease. Various interpretations of the story have been presented by critics and readers. These stories are often analyzed as an allegory that shows the inevitability of death. The short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are written in the tradition of Gothic fiction. After confronting the stranger, Prosper dies, and the guests also die. In the middle of the party, a mysterious figure enters the party in a disguise of the victim of Red Death visits each of the rooms. Along with many other nobles, he hosts a masquerade ball in seven differently decorated rooms. The story is an account of Prince Prospero, who tries to avoid the dangerous plague, the Red Death, to hit his abbey. De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.“The Masque of the Red Death” was published in 1842 by an American writer Edger Allan Poe. The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe.
Towards that end, the story illustrates significant imagery to reveal the characteristics of Poe’s funs to facilitate an effective merging of several diverse stories into one image. Red Death also chased them and led them to die despite their efforts to protect themselves from the plague.Ĭompared to “The Masque of the Red Death,” more images of violence and blood are depicted in “The Raven.” As Fletcher notes, it has displayed a clear picture of the narrator’s emotions and mind through a reflection of haunting and low-spirited personality. When other nobles also came to see Prince and stranger in Abbey, they noted that Red Death was not in any tangible form, and there was nothing beneath the mask. Once Prospero confronted a stranger in the seventh room of the abbey called the death room, he starts to follow that stranger and faces death. Rooms extended from east to west, and there was also a huge and scary clock in one of them. For instance, in “The Masque of the Red Death,” there are seven rooms in the abbey and all were decorated in different styles and colors that symbolize different aspects of life and its progression. Similarly, the use of imagery and color is also evident in the short stories. Such death has created unhealable pains for the narrator that will always make him depressing. Poe has used the short story as a symbol of memory and grief by quoting his words ‘nevermore.’ He has used the most appealing topic in his poem “The Raven,” which is the death of a young and beautiful woman (Fletcher). He depicted a sense of persistent devotion for the commemoration of Lenore and rejected the possibility of forgetting his love. On the other hand, Poe also uses symbols in “The Raven” to describe a never-ending remembrance and mourning caused to him by the death of his beloved.
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