Poe’s_“Mask_Of_The_Red_Death”_Can_Be_Interpreted_As_An_Alleg

Poe’s “Mask Of The Red Death” Can Be Interpreted As An Allegory Of Life Itself In the “Mask of the Red Death” Poe uses many symbols to create links to the living world. Through the use of setting, objects of human manufacture and the metaphors associated with many of these objects, Poe creates a realistic setting in which to teach us a lesson about life or death. The use of the rooms as a progression through life, their offset placement not allowing a view of what is to come, the eerie chiming count down of the clock, and the last and blackest of rooms as Prince Prospero final resting place are all ways in which Poe uses symbols to create and allegory to life. The rooms and their color are essential in that through the use of color they convey our mortality. The progressively darkening colors can be seen a stages of life. When we are young all is bright and new but as we grow older the color starts to fade until nothing is left and all is black. The Red Death completes this journey, appearing in the first room and making his way through the crowd to the to the final and blackest of rooms. Even the placement poe, life, through, rooms, room, final, time, thus, placement, last, journey, end, death, color, way, view, setting, red, prince, out, objects, metaphors, even, create, clock, blackest, allegory, things, teach, symbols, story, simple, seen, prospero, progression