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    The document provides questions about Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Masque of the Red Death'. It asks the reader to analyze symbolic meanings of different colors and aspects of the story, including what Prince Prospero represents and what the masked figure and different rooms may symbolize. It also includes questions about the allegorical message of the story.

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    “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

    Instructions: Brainstorm possible symbolic meanings for the following colors.

    Blue-

    Purple-

    Green-

    Orange-

    White-

    Violet-

    Black-

    Red-

    Answer each question based on the story.


    1. How does Prince Prospero try to keep himself and his household free from the plague and death?

    2..Compare life on the inside to life on the outside. What is the prince trying to do?

    3. What kind of man might Prince Prospero symbolize based on his lifestyle and carefully chosen name?

    4.The prince loves the bizarre and has created the seven apartments as well as the masquerade costumes
    himself. Why these fantastic and gaudy appearances? Think about the allegorical meaning of the story.

    5.Describe or diagram the seven apartments’ placement in the castle. Why are the halls especially significant?

    6.What can the clock symbolize in this allegory? Why do the party members stop reveling?

    7.What could the masked figure symbolize besides plague or death?

    8.Why is the blue room in the east? Why is the black/red room in the west?

    9.Some religions specify seven deadly since: lust, gluttony, sloth, rage, avarice, envy, and pride. Which of these
    sins have the revelers most like committed during their time in the palace?

    10.Why does the masked visitor frighten the guests so?

    11. Why does the prince chase the masked visitor?


    12.What happens to Prospero and his guests? Where?

    13. What can explain the fact that the masked figure cannot be tackled or killed?

    14. .What is the allegorical lesson to be learned from this story?

    Seven Ages of Man Seeking the bubble reputation


    Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
    "All the world's a stage, In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
    And all the men and women merely players; With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    They have their exits and their entrances; Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
    His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
    Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, That ends this strange eventful history,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
    —Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

    COLORS SEVEN AGES WHY?


    Blue

    Purple

    Green

    Orange

    White

    Violet

    Black/red

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