ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -According to this reading, the blue room, which is furthest to the east, represents birth. The color suggests the “unknown” from which a human being comes into the world. The next room is purple, a combination of blue (birth) and red (associated with life, intensity) suggests the beginnings of growth.

Detailed explanation-2: -The seven colored rooms are thought to represent the seven stages of life. They begin in the east and head west like the sun toward the end of the day.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sixth room of the seven is the violet room. Violet represents the sixth stage of life which is old age.

Detailed explanation-4: -The black room correlates with death, the final stage of life. The mood of the finale is very sorrow and the tone is straight forward and formal. Edgar Allan Poe does a great job of using such descriptive and gruesome words so create the Red Death.

Detailed explanation-5: -The symbolic significance of the clock and the black room is made explicit as the black room becomes the site of death for Prospero and his friends. The clock heralded the arrival of the masked figure, and the black room became its destination.