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In "The Masque of the Red Death" Poe adapts many conventions of traditional Gothic fiction, including the setting of a castle!. The multiple single-toned rooms may be representative of the human mind, showing different personality types!. The imagery of blood and time throughout also indicate corporeality!. The plague may, in fact, be typical attributes of human life and mortality!. This would imply the entire story is an allegory about man's futile attempts to stave off death, the commonly accepted interpretation!. However, there is much dispute over how to interpret "The Masque of the Red Death", including those who suggest it is not allegorical, especially due to Poe's admission of a distaste for didacticism in literature!. If the story really does have a moral, Poe showed restraint by not explicitly stating that moral in the text!. For those looking for the moral, then, it is there, while for others it has no message!.
Blood, emphasized throughout the tale along with the color red, serves as an oddly paradoxical dual symbol!. For one, it represents death in the story!. It also, however, represents life!. This is emphasized by the masked figure, never explicitly stated to be the actual Red Death but only a reveler in a costume of the Red Death, making his initial appearance in the easternmost room!. This room is colored blue, a color most often associated with birth!.
Though Prospero's castle is supposed to serve as a protective location, meant to keep the sickness out, it is ultimately an oppressive structure!. Its maze-like design and tall and narrow windows become almost burlesque-like in the final black room, so oppressive that "there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all!." Additionally, the castle is meant to be a closed space but the stranger is still able to get in, suggesting that control is an illusion!.
Like many of Poe's tales, "The Masque of the Red Death" has also been interpreted autobiographically!. In this point of view, Prince Prospero is Poe as a wealthy young man part of a distinguished family, much like his foster parents the Allans!. Poe, then, is seeking refuge from the dangers of the outside world and leaves himself as the only person willing to confront the stranger, emblematic of the author's own rush towards inescapable dangers in his own life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe has symbolism in it!. For example, the rooms!. The prince went through 7 rooms and the colors symbolize the stages of life!. Hope this helps :DWww@QuestionHome@Com

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