The Masque Of Red Death: The Masque Of Poe
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People don't really have that much in common, but they do have one
big thing in common, that is death. Death is the one thing that no one can
stop. The short story "The Masque of Red Death," by Edger Allen Poe shows
how that statement is true. Poe was a man who had had many experiences
with a d ....
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.... later died of tuberculoses. His
brother died of tuberculoses also.
In "The Masque of Red Death," Poe uses color as a symbol. He used
the colors red, blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. In
the story red stand for the death that comes over everyone in the story.
In Poe's life it stands for the diseases that has killed everyone important
to him, tuberculoses. Blue is the color of the first room, in Poe's life
it is supposed to be him. The second room in the story ....
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