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He oddly decorates seven suites in which to party, all decorated in various colors, beautiful and bizarre in their own way. The Prince and his friends lack compassion for those perishing outside their walls, and block out their thought with pleasures by celebrating! They are smug, proud, and believe they cannot be touched.Īfter six months of lock down in seclusion, while humankind continues to die from the plague, the Prince decides to have a Masque Ball. The Prince provides his guests will all the pleasure they need such as musicians, merriment, beauty, food, and wine. He fills his locked castle with merry friends, just like himself, who do not have the time to grieve or think of the horrors outside. Poe’s story tells the tale of a Prince, who is described as “happy and dauntless and sagacious.” After losing half his population to the plague of Red Death, he locks himself behind doors of a fortress, which he thinks is impenetrable from the disease. It was a ghastly death, swift, and feared by many. It was a disease killing its victims with pain, dizziness, and bleeding from the pores. The Masque of Red Death was the name of a horrible plague. He is being a party crasher in order to make deadly and gruesome point. #MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH PHANTOM OF THE OPERA COSTUME MOVIE#If someone were to ask me to come up with two words to describe Red Death, I would use the term “party crasher.” In Poe’s story, Leroux’s book, and the stage and movie version, that is just what the Phantom is doing. You might have an entirely different view, so I encourage you, as always, to leave your comments. Remember, this is how I view that dastardly (but strikingly handsome man) dressed in red showing up at the party. Okay, get out your notepad and pick up a pen.
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