Masque of the Red Death By Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe The Masque of the rubicund Death 1) What does each color in each room look on? These colors instance the seven deadly sins which are laziness, lust, gluttony, greed, pride, anger, and covetousness. The colors flowerpot also represent the seven stages of man starting from birth, toddler age, childhood, puerile age, middle age, old age, and lastly death. Blue is birth, Purple is royalty and power, discolor is growth and life, Orange is destruction, White is purity, Violet is knowledge and memory, and Black is death. ) wherefore do you think Poe consistent the apartments in this manner? The way Prince Prospero arranged the rooms is very peculiar. He did it from east to west according from when the insolate would rise to when it would set. When the sun would rise it would typify birth and when it would set death. skilful like the rooms blue was on the east so it would mean birth and black being on the west meaning death. 3) What do the colors channel to the su spense in the story?The colors add certain suspense to the story because we do not have a meaning to them. They give you a mysterious out look towards what locoweed happen next. We obviously have the idea that the black room actor death and that someone will eventually die. 4) What does the ebony measure represent and what in the story leads you to this conclusion? It represents every hour that they live ancient the Red Death or until it comes since they cannot escape it. The fact that the clock is ebony meaning black it symbolizes the color of death.So we can come to the conclusion that sooner or later someone is going to die. 5) Why does the ebony clock reflect Poes personal life? It reflects his personal life because Poe had a lot of deaths happen in his life, starting with his parents when he was young. These deaths were all related because at that time tuberculosis was the main cause of death. Reading his lifetime we soon see that all his loved ones died from tuberculosis. Although it is not clear of what he died from.