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The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death. Edgar Allan Poe. The Prince Prospero held a masked ball in his castle, where the “Red Death” was supposedly present. In the beginning of the story we meet the main character, Prince Prospero and his supporting characters, the Knights and Dames of the castle.

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The Masque of the Red Death

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  1. The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe

  2. The Prince Prospero held a masked ball in his castle, where the “Red Death” was supposedly present. In the beginning of the story we meet the main character, Prince Prospero and his supporting characters, the Knights and Dames of the castle. Exposition

  3. The narrator gives you a mental tour of the kingdom and tells about each room or chamber, there were seven of them. There are not any lamps and candelabrums in the entire castle, there were also stained glass windows, in every chamber a different color. But the pane failed to correspond with the window colorings…they were all scarlet-a deep blood color. The gigantic clock of ebony struck every minute and making the orchestra pause during their performance. The ebony clock is in the velvet hallway and soon the chimes begin to fade away. Rising Action

  4. A tall masked man enters the room. Prince Prospero confronts him and asks who he is so they will know who they are hanging at sundown, but no man is courageous enough to seize the man when the Prince orders them to do so. Rising Action Continued

  5. Climax • Prince Prospero runs through the six chambers as he is chased by a dagger held by the masked man. Prince Prospero finally reached the last chamber, the velvet chamber. Prince turns and faces his pursuer, the dagger drops to the sable carpet.

  6. Immediately after the dagger reaches the ground, Prince Prospero follows and is left laying on the ground dead. The others threw themselves into the “Black” chamber and watching as the masked man stand erect to the ebony clock as he drops the mask at which they handled with so violently and rudeness. Falling Action

  7. The Red Death killed all and tripod torches went out…the ebony clock expired and so “the Red death held illimitable domination over all.” The Red Death was acknowledged and “Had come like a thief in the night, and one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel and dies each in the despairing posture of his fall.” Resolution

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