Prince Prospero's The Masque Of The Red Death

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In this short story,”The masque of the red death” this story took place in a well hidden castle. at this time the black plaque was going around and killing everyone.Prince prospero locked himself with a few other people in a section of the castle and welded the doors shut. The hidden message in poe’s allegory “The masque of the red death”. Is that we all commit sins like Prince prospero but when we ignore them they lead to our downfall. he knew that people were dying around him he only cared about his own health. then he threw a party while all the mayhem was going on. him and his friends were having the time of their life in the party

prince prospero knew that the plague was nearly wiping out europe and he decided to lock with welded doors shut with a few other people. this decision showed self caring he was. this related to one of the seven sins which is the greed trait. his goal was to make sure he was in good shoes and he could care less if people were dying around him.

once price prospero had a huge abundance of food and it seemed like he been playing
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while everyone is living in a terrible condition and suffering. he's still ignoring everything that's taking place. before you know people inside of the castle started to die and plaque finally caught up to prospero and the others who being trying the avoid the plaque. the lesson behind this was when you ignore all the bad these you done the snowball effect will caught up to you. one the final stage of prince prospero's life the clock in the black room was ticking very loud inching every bit of life left inside of him. he died in fear just like how everyone did.

in this conclusion i'll like to conclude that prince prospero was only trying to look out for himself and made sure he was going to be in good heads and he did it with an selfish eye. this story teaches a life lesson. once prince realized he was sick that's when it was too