Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's most considerable writers. He composed numerous interesting poems and short stories. One of Poe's most well known short stories was "The Masque of the Red Death." Today the theme and the significance of it are still highly debated among scholars and fault-finders. In this sense, Prospero is a mirror image of William Shakespeare's character of a same name in “The Tempest”, because Prospero in “The Tempest” creates the plot of the play practically without any help, as his different plans, spells, and manipulations all work as a major aspect of his terrific outline to accomplish the play's happy closure. In "The Masque of the Red Death" the theme of this short story is the inevitability of escaping mortality, regardless of one’s wealth, influence and power. Firstly, life ends, nonetheless of how hard individuals attempt to avoid it. For example, “This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste” (Poe 5). He encompasses his castle with iron barriers and his property is "plentifully provisioned" to keep any sickness or disease from living inside the zone. While Prospero endeavored to keep death from living …show more content…
The seven rooms in the castle represent "seven stages of one's life, from birth to death”. From the blue, which proposes the start of life and light in the east, to the black, which encourages the blackness of night and death in the west. As shown, everyone that was in the private room was compelled by Prospero. According to Poe, “He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fete; and it was his own guiding taste which had given character to the masqueraders” (Edgar Allan Poe 664). This idea makes well sense, as Prospero discovered his destiny some place in the palace, despite the fact that the prince's name puts forward