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How can this story be considered an allegory?

How can this story be considered an allegory? . Rebecca, Jaclyn and Calvina. A disease known as the Red Death plagues the fictional country where this tale is set Causes victims to die quickly and gruesomely

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How can this story be considered an allegory?

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  1. How can this story be considered an allegory? Rebecca, Jaclyn and Calvina

  2. A disease known as the Red Death plagues the fictional country where this tale is set • Causes victims to die quickly and gruesomely • Prince Prospero decides to cheat death by shutting his favorite guests in a FABULOUS castle to have a never ending party • Red Death invades the masquerade ball

  3. Allegory • Features a set of recognizable symbols whose meanings combine to convey a message • An allegory always operates on two levels of meaning: the literal elements of the plot (the colors of the rooms, for example) and their symbolic counterparts, which often involve large philosophical concepts (such as life and death) • We can read this story as an allegory about life and death and the powerlessness of humans to evade the grip of death

  4. The Stages of Life • Rooms have great significance, and it is an allegory of human life • First room is arranged from East to West which is associated with beginnings and death • Poe describes the rooms to us through East to West and in the color order: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, purple, black with red light

  5. Life and Death • The allegorical figure representing death is clearly the Red Death in both its literal form as the plague that instigates Prince Prospero’s retreat from the world at large and specifically as the mummer who surprises and terrifies his guests at the masked ball. • The allegorical figure for life is the masked ball. The ball is composed of a variety of elements that represent various elements of life.

  6. The Great Ebony Clock • The clock binds life and death together • There is a great ebony clock whose chimes strike out the passage of life and can be heard as an allegorical every other stage of life • It is located in the black room which is meant to be a symbol of time • Measures the length of the days and when it strikes the final hour, death’s presence is realized and it is an regular reminder to the people that their lives are drifting away with the time

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