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How Does The Black Death Symbolize In The Masque Of The Red Death

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“The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allen Poe based his short story “The Masque of the Red Death" on an actual event, the bubonic plague and people’s attempts to cheat death. The story shows the struggles of Prince Prospero’s futile attempts to prolong his life. He lives in a massive palace with many multicolored rooms. Throughout “The Masque of the Red Death”, it appears to take many influences from the Bubonic Plague, an actual event in the 1300’s. The disease portrayed causes you to die very quickly and forms a red blood spot, however; how well does this description sync with the real Plague? “The Masque of the Red Death” draws many parallels to the Black Death or Bubonic Plague ”The Red Death, a bloodier version of the Black Death”(EBSCO

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