Each room is unlit from within, and instead has a brazier blazing forth from the hallway that runs on either side of the rooms the fire's light shines through the colored stained glass that decorates each room in a different shade. The palace where this wild party occurs is oddly arranged, however, with a series of seven rooms that twist and wind beyond the view of the other.
These circumstances make the people forget their worries about the Red Death, and they instead develope a deep feeling of peace and security here.Īfter about six months of living in such a way, Prince Prospero organizes an enormous masquerade ball which all of his one thousand friends participate in. Prospero has hired dancers, musicians, and many other such forms of entertainment to amuse his guests and keep them occupied, as they stay drunk in a wine-filled alcoholic haze. Within the castle a wild party is going on all day, every day. As such, Prospero has been very careful about whom he has allowed to enter his castle, which he has customized himself, and this man has decided to ignore these problems outside in his kingdom, thinking that "The external world could take care of itself." The castle is surrounded by a metal fence, and all of the entrances to it are welded shut by some of his servants to prevent anyone from coming or going. Those who bear any of these symptoms are not offered any assistance, because it is so contagious and attacks the body so very quickly.
There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.And the whole seizure, progress, and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour" Poe, pg. In describing the unique nature of this illness, "Blood was its Avatar and its seal - the redness and the horror of blood. In an unknown country, a ruler named Prince Prospero has quarantined himself and one thousand of his closest friends within his castle to escape from the widespread Red Death which is plaguing the land. Stories of Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death
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