Symbolism In The Masque Of The Red Death By Edgar Allan Poe

Throughout time the fear of death has been something that makes people ponder about life and what they have done with their time. This idea of dying and losing all the things that represent life have has made people wonder the possibility of preventing death and possibly the resurrection from death. Death and life have inspired some of the most amazing things from art and literature to some of the most common things. Which in The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe a plague has struck and Prince Prospero has locked himself and his guest away in his castle. As time rolls on they soon face the thing they were trying to escape: death. Poe uses symbols to reveal the stages of life will ultimately lead to death.
In the story Prince Prospero’s

Which two well supported writers “Walter Blair and H. H. Bell Jr., for example, explain the color scheme of the seven rooms as the seven ages of man,” ( Du Plessis 1) in the article Deliberate Chaos: Poe’s Use of Colors in The Masque of the Red Death. Poe’s placement of these seven different colored rooms symbolize each of the seven ages of man. Each of the seven rooms have a distinct color to which the rooms are laid out. The rooms are placed in order of blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and then finally black with red tinted windows. Prospero’s rooms begin with the blue room which is located in the eastern most part of the castle. Blue also commonly symbolizes rebirth or beginning of life. When transitioning through each of the seven stages of life you will inevitably end up at the final stage: death. This will be the black room with the red tinted windows, which will also be the final room in the castle located at the Western most part. Which most people will relate to some idea of death. The idea of that the rooms are a symbol of some passage of life or stages of life is strongly backed by Dawn B. Sova, which from her article reinforces that “The