Characterization is a significant quality or feature given to a character in a story. The Red Death is described as a very bloody, painful disease in the opening paragraph. Later the Red Death is personified as the uninvited guest at Prince Prospero’s masked ball. The Red Death also comes across as cruel because of all the death he causes.

When Poe uses words like hideous, horror, and fatal to describe the Red Death, it makes the reader feel afraid. The connotations Poe uses of these words are what makes you feel fear.

The setting of the story is grim. Half of the prince’s population has succu

Each room’s color symbolizes something. The first room, the blue room, stands for beginning. The party begins here. The purple room stands for innocence. The fourth and fifth rooms, the green and orange rooms, stand for life beginning to end. This is where the uninvited guest is first seen. The white room stands for purity and knowledge. This is where the uninvited guest is reveled as the Red Death. The sixth room, which is violet, represents repentance of sins before death. The last room is black. Black symbolizes death. It is in the black room that the guests die at the hands of the Red Death. The large ebony clock in the black room, symbolizes the time that the guests have to live. The clock stops when everyone dies Red symbolizes blood. The Red Death causes profuse bleeding at the pores of its victims. The blood red windows in the black room symbolized the blood spilt in the black room.

There is a lot of symbolism that contributes to the mood. Th

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