Inevitable In The Masque Of The Red Death

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The Inevitability of Death

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, Poe conveys to the reader that death is inevitable. In “The Masque of the Red Death”, a grotesque disease known as the “Red Death,” pervades the country. It is amazingly lethal and has already killed half of the kingdom. The main character, Prince Prospero, who is the monarch of the kingdom, overlooks his impoverished and withering subjects and decides to take 1,000 of his courtiers and weld themselves into an never ending party. After six months into their stay, Prince Prospero decides to host an extravagant masquerade ball. The ball takes place in a sequence of seven rooms, each like no other, and a tall ebony clock. As the ball is in full swing,