... one could not see the future, only the next phase of life. Although each room had a large window, one could not see the outside world. Because the view from the windows was of the corridors, again Poe provided a feeling of confinement. Each room, being of a different color, represented the phases of existence, from birth toward death. The rooms went in the order of blue, purple, green, orange, ... white, violet, and finally black and scarlet. Each color when put together formed a progression of the stages of life ... , from birth to death. The seventh room was constructed of black velvet...

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• Grade Level: High School

... human life. First of all, the rooms run east to west. The sun rises in the east so it is usually connected with beginnings and life, while the sun sets in the west, which is associated with endings. Each room is a different stage of life according to the color. The first room is blue, which represents birth. The purple room is next and that suggests the beginning of growth. After this ... room comes the green and orange rooms, which are symbols of life and the progression through youth. White comes next ... and that suggests aging and reaching the end of the path. The next room is viol...

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... has witnessed no one at his door and he thinks its Lenore's Spirit. Poe also feels frustration, being troubled and his in a mood of sorrow. Poe has the color of mourning hanging in his room. Purple curtains, which represents mourning and death. He sits in his house reading forgotten lore and mourns about his lost loved one, Lenore. This feeling of sorrow is ... getting him scared of what his emotions and his mind are thinking. Poe shows a little happier side when the bird appears. Poe smiles in sight of the raven. Then Poe asked ... , but can't because the presence of the bird brings th...

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... to the mood. The blue room, which is first, is in the East. This is where the party begins. The black room, which is last, is in the West. This is where everyone dies. This symbolizes the rising and setting sun, which rises in the East and sets in the West 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 ... ...

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... Death," Poe uses symbolism through the colors of the rooms, the clock that counts down time, and the characters at the ball in order to discuss man's eventual appointment with death. At the ball, the castle has seven arranged rooms that each has a different color and have all been decorated according to the Prince's taste (Wolfgang 521). These colors start at blue and progress to purple, to green, then orange ... , to white, next violet and finally to black (Poe 269). All of these colors, in this particular order, are said to represent the evolution of a man's life ("Overview," AVL). Non...

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• Grade Level: High School