When the last person died, the clock stopped ticking. Prospero falls to the ground dead.The guests swarm around the figure and to their surprise, there is no one inside the costume. As he chase him through the six rooms he looks behind to face prospero who has a dagger in his hand. Prospero is enraged and follow the figure. The people are terrified and the prince order his guards to seize the man, remove his costume and hang him. This figure invokes feelings of surprise and terror in the people. It mosquerades Red Death and its costume resembles that of a funeral costume with red stains on it. When the clock striks twelve of mid night, a ghostly figure dressed in costume appears. The guests enjoy themselves in the other six rooms.
The ball countinue untill the night and it is so wild. Its sound is also so shrill, and loud that it disturbs everyone. Its pendulum swings in a way that it suggest that something bad is going to happen. The guest opt to stay out of this room because of the its darkness. The light when enter into the room from outside create such a gloomy atmosphere that it frightens the people. Though it is coloured black, its windows are blood red. The last room is slightly different from the other. The colours are multiple like blue, green, purple, voilet, white, orange and the last room is coloured black. Instead of holding it in one big hall, he holds it in seven rooms each coloured differently. Read more : The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Summary And AnalysisĪfter five or 6 months, the price decide to throw a big part. He stocks enough food and water in the mansion to feed the guests for years untill the disease wither out. He remains happy and carefree having no concern for the lives of his subjects. Once all the guests arrived, he puts the abbey on a strict lockdown. Though, his people are dying of the fatal illness, the prince invites a thousand of noble men to party in his abbey in a distant location. It is a dangerous pandemic that kills a person once infected within 30 minutes. This is the story of a pandemic ‘The Red Death’ that has spread in the lands of Prince Prospero. Because of how at ease they are with their situation, Prospero throws a lavish masquerade ball. Nobles believe they are safe within the abbey despite the fact that the plague has very awful symptoms, such as sweating blood and dying within 30 minutes. The protagonist of the short story, Prince Prospero, and a group of nobility have taken refuge in an abbey to escape the curse. The Red Death is a made-up disease that ravages the land in this story. There is not much complexity to the plot of “The Masque of the Red Death”.
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