Symbolism In The Masque Of The Red Death

In “The Masque of the Red Death” it talks of a harmful fictional disease stirred up by the imaginative mind of Edgar Allan Poe. This story takes place in the 19th century and was looked upon as a dark and dreadful tale. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe gives little subtle hints about how everything you do or say happens for a reason. Each person and every object described in the story represented something symbolic to the conclusion to the story. This, in other words, refers to an allegory. Symbolism affected the story’s theme because Poe wanted to let his readers know that your words and actions can affect the people around you. In the beginning of the story, the author begins to set the setting and the tone. This story was written and took place in the 19th century. It includes the introduction of the main characters, the time period, and the description of the disease itself. The main character in which the reader is mainly focused on is Prince Prospero. Edgar was trying his hardest to try and make Prince Prospero out to be this overpowering and ruling leader. However, this character was a symbol of

Located under his castle were seven different rooms with seven different colors. All of these rooms represented the progression of life. In each room there were two windows, one located on the east side of the room and the other on the west side. The first room was filled with blue which represented birth, the second was purple which showed youth, the third was green which was adolescence, the fourth was orange which represented adulthood, the fifth was white which showed elderly. And the sixth and seventh room were violet and black, violet represented imminent death and black represented complete death. Since there wasn’t any lighting, they had to use fires and candles outside of each