Masque Of The Red Death Essay

In the short story “ Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, this story is about a young arrogant prince who is determined to throw a gay masquerade ball in order to avoid the plague as much as possible. ShowingTo show his arrogance, Prosper invited only his royal courtiers from within the castle, and strode through his vibrant and decorated monastery in an attempt to evade the Red Death. During this terrible period, plague was second only to smallpox in terms of outbreak fatalities. Through the psychoanalytic critical lens, the audience will determine the understanding of his arrogance and impatient pride that is displayed through him tussling with death learning that you cannot change the inevitable. The easy sighted topic of this

Something you can’t speed up nor slow down and that reality is always hard to let go and accept and move on as if accepting the loss of a loved one, losing a pet, accepting a poor grade is all unyieldingly tough because you know it can’t be changed just like “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless, that cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made”(Poe, pg 3). This quote speaks on the emotion Prospero’s having an extremely difficult time accepting that some fixedchords' fixed or one's fate cannot be changed because time is a race that never ends. The vibrant and omissive colors and details were put in this short story to highlight the seven stages of life, which also exerting all the Prosperous emotions throughout the short story from the “ blue — and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange — the fifth with white — the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds on a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond to the decorations”(Poe, pg2). Throughout the short story, the audience is on a scale not to see if Prince Prospero was a bad person with bad qualities, but to understand how his words and emotions affected his decisions through the story and why he would want to run away from such a terrifying infection that “disables the immune system of its host by injecting toxins into defense cells, such as macrophages, that are tasked with detecting bacterial infections. Once these cells are knocked out, the bacteria can multiply