Essay On The Masque Of The Red Death

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The “Fall of the House of Usher” can be portrayed as a comprehensive account of the confusion and dissipation of a person’s personality. Beyond that, the story of the Fall of House of Usher is littered with symbols. The House of Usher or the Mansion manifests the deterioration or decline of the Usher family health; followed later by disintegration of the house which represents the actual fall of the Usher family. The mansion itself becomes the symbolic manifestation of this individual. The fissure in the deteriorating mansion is a signal of major differences in the individual’s personality. “Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure” (Poe 2). Roderick represents the mind or the intellect and absorbed in making music, reading, and creating art. Roderick writes to an old classmate and friend and spoke of “acute bodily illness ---of mental disorder …show more content…
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