The allegorical lesson Poe is impacting in “Masque of the Red Death” (Poe 1) is that humans will do anything to elude death. The Masque of the Red death is filled with imagery that supports the story’s allegorical interpretation, as well as symbols. First, in an effort to escape the Red Death, Prince Prospero invites his friends and they retreat to one of his fancy and ample “provisioned abbey” (Poe 1). The abbey has “a strong and lofty wall” and “gates of iron” (Poe 1). When all the guests had entered, they welded the bolts or locked themselves inside. They believed that they can hide from the Red Death by locking themselves away from the suffering of the rest of the world. About the fifth or sixth month of being in seclusion as pestilence ravaged most furiously abroad, “Prince Prospero entertained his thousands of friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence” (Poe