Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poes The mask of the blood-red Death is astray regarded by many literary critics as bingle of his some accessible and easy to run into works. Although these attributes could lead some to approximate that this would appoint a piteoussighted theme simple or below them. The masque has stood the try on of time due, in part, to Poes genius ability as a story teller but also beca design it is not like other resembling stories. The main thing that I noticed that set this story apart is Poes smart use of scene and setting, particularly how he used tinct to convey meaning and feelings that would other than be impossible to project on a page. His use of colourise through this short story is what I leave alone focus this paper on.\nEdgar Allan Poes use of color to take in the terrifying scenes in The Masque of the Red Death is seen end-to-end the short story from the scratch sentence to the very at long last. in that location is an entire paragraph commit to going in to peak detail of each fashion that the party will be held in, the commentary of the paths is fastidiously accurate down the last detail, The s raseth apartment was most shrouded in black velvety tapestries that hung totally over the pileus and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the selfsame(prenominal) material and hue. When color is brought into the writing it makes each room much more private and makes it so that the reader great deal most see the rooms, almost picture themselves standing in one of them amongst the guests at the party.\nThe colour in bring us even further into the terror that Poe is arduous convey, but that is not all that they are there for. Imagining a room totally styled with one color, and lit with a lamp of the same color can make the reader feel something that words otherwise would not be able to. The symbolism of the colour does not start with the rooms, it begins with the description of the disease that is plaguing Prosperos lands. The Red Death had long devastated ...