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Looking at plot

• Prince Prospero and friends attempt to escape
  death in his castellated abbey (Cause)
• Death overtakes them all (Effect)

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Theme
"And darkness and decay and the Red Death held
illimitable dominion over all"
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Symbolism

• The seven rooms
• The stages of life
• Birth (Blue)easternmost
• Toddler Age (Purple)
• Childhood (Green)
• Teen Years (Orange)
• Middle Age (White)
• Old Age (Violet)
• Death (Black)westernmost

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What travels East to West?
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Aah!
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Symbolism

• The seventh room
• Black in color The seventh apartment was
  closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that
  hung all over the ceiling and down the walls,
  falling in heavy folds upon carpet of the same
  material and hue.

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Mmm

• Do many people want to enter the room?
• What does the color black usually symbolize?

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nothing cheery.
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Symbolism

• The seven rooms
• The seven deadly sins
• Pride
• Greed
• Lust
• Envy
• Gluttony
• Wrath
• Sloth

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Did you notice if

• Did Prince Prospero exhibit all of these things?
• When did Prince Prospero get really angry and
  begin chasing the masked figure?

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Symbolism

• The clock
• A clock tells what?
• The courtiers do what when the clock strikes?
• What are they doing?
• How much time do they
• have left?

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Mmm

• The clock is symbolic of the passage of time
  before deatha constant reminder that death is
  inevitable.

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Allusions

• In truth the masquerade license of the night was
  nearly unlimited but the figure in question had
  out-Heroded Herod
• Who is Herod?
• What did he do?
• How does this connect?

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Allusions

• And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red
  Death. He had come like a thief in the night.
• A thief in the night comes from where?
• I Thessalonians 54,9-10  "For you yourselves
  know full well that the day of the Lord will come
  just like a thief in the night.  For God has not
  destined us for wrath, but for obtaining
  salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died
  for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we
  may live together with him."