Color
What color represents the eventual death in the story?
What is Black and Red?
The significance of the red room.
What is death by plague?
Symbolizes the fleeting nature of life at the masquerade.
What is the ebony clock?
The wealthy and privileged class.
Who does Prince Prospero represent in the story?
The fortress presents the illusion of control over nature and fate.
What is the Prince's Abbey?
Color that symbolizes wealth & luxury but also decay.
What is Purple?
The progression of the rooms symbolism.
The 7 stages of life?
Symbol for the inevitability of death and the passage of time
What is the Black Clock?
The masked figure.
The character who symbolizes the inevitability of death?
Symbols i.e. The Abbey and Masquerade Party.
What are human futile attempts to escape reality?
The blue room is associated with this stage of life.
What is birth?
The location of the black chamber at the western end of the suite symbolism.
What is the end of daylight and life?
The function of masks in the story.
What are illusion of safety and the attempts to hide from death?
Society's denial of death.
What the behavior of the guests reveals about society's response to death?
Two tangible things that govern life.
What is The ebony clock and the seven colored rooms?
The color black representation in the story.
What are finality and death?
What is youth and vitality?
The color of the inevitable end of life itself.
What is the blood-red color of the masquerade?
Inevitability of death, which is inescapable regardless of wealth, power, or seclusion.
How the character of the Red Death functions as a symbolic figure?
The red masked visitor, the black room, the red lighted windows meaning.
The colors that symbolize a specific type of terror and death?
What is the plague?
The things the Prince's uses to attempt to escape reality.
What is wealth and isolation not defying mortality?
A party guest who arrives at midnight dressed in blood-splattered grave clothes.
What is the plague the party-goers have tried to wall out?
Hosting a grand party in attempt to distract themselves.
They ways the revelers represent humanity's denial of mortality?
This literary device shown in prince's seven colored rooms, which scholars suggest represent the seven stages of life, moving from east to west.
What is allegory?