Like a Thief in the Night When death comes, there is no escaping it. In a split second it takes your life. In the Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery and symbolism to portray that everyone’s time comes to an end, that no one can escape death. The Red Death is a deadly disease. It causes a gruesome and painful death. It makes you bleed from your pores and kills you in thirty minutes, In the text it says, This is one of the seven rooms in the palace. Since it’s at the eastern extremity, it is the first room. The blue color and it being the first room symbolizes birth. The last room is said to be, This room being all the way to the west and the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes symbolizes death. The rooms go from