Justin Hill Xsesive4ce@yahoo.com The Masque of the Red Death In Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death”, he uses symbolism of the rooms, time, and the red death to portray his theme that no one can escape death. The masque was held in Prince Prospero’s imperial suite that consisted of seven different and symbolic rooms. The fact that there where seven rooms was symbolic in itself. Many …showed first 75 words of 820 total…

…showed last 75 words of 820 total…in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.” The figure, who stood in the shadow of the clock, now casts a shadow on revelers who lie dead on the ground. Prince Prospero and his courtiers could not escape death. Masked with it own identity, Death came like a thief in the night and took and “held illimitable dominion over all.”