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This summary discusses Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death". It explains that the story is about a plague killing many people outside while the rich hide within the walls of their palace. Though protected, the rich unknowingly have a limited time to live. The hourly chiming of a grandfather clock in the palace represents the time remaining for the rich, though they are unaware. The seven chambers of the palace, decorated in different colors from east to west, symbolize the stages of life with the final black and red chamber representing death.

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F Briggs

This summary discusses Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death". It explains that the story is about a plague killing many people outside while the rich hide within the walls of their palace. Though protected, the rich unknowingly have a limited time to live. The hourly chiming of a grandfather clock in the palace represents the time remaining for the rich, though they are unaware. The seven chambers of the palace, decorated in different colors from east to west, symbolize the stages of life with the final black and red chamber representing death.

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Poe Project

BY FISHER BRIGGS
Masque of Red Death

This short story by poe is about a plague


that kills many people outside while the rich
hide behind their big fancy walls but little do
they know they dont have long to live.
Since time is referenced so often, what is
its importance to the story? And what is
the
meaning behind the hourly striking of the
clock?
Time symbolizes how much the rich have
left to live in the story but they dont
know that.
A grandfather clock like this
one is placed in the story in
their palace. Every hour the
clock rings and as the hours
pass, every hour the clock
rings more. When the clock
rings, the people get scared
and stop what there doing
and get silent. They do this
because time is the only thing
the rich cant buy.
What do you make of the colors of
the chambers? Furthermore, there is
an emphasis on the most eastern
chamber being blue and the most
western being black velvet and red.
Why might this be?
Each of the 7 chambers all have different color
schemes and they all stand as a symbol. The
chambers arranged from east to west symbolize the
stages of life. The first chamber being a nice blue
color symbolizing birth. The second being purple
symbolizing youth and so on.
The last room on the end is a very dark
room with no lights and a dark red and
velvet color scheme. None of the
guests went in it and were scared to
even go near it. Thats because this
room symbolizes death itself.

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