LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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by sealing himself and his friends in the castle
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by fleeing the country
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by purchasing vast quantities of medicine
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by funding research to cure it
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instead, Prospero chooses to use his wealth to escape death by hosting a masquerade ball. Even this early in the story, Poe indicates how Prospero is unstable because he tries to escape death by inviting “a thousand hale and light hearted friends” to his castle (Poe 300).…
Detailed explanation-2: -Prospero does not want to face death. He deliberately flees it with his followers and tries not to think about it at all, so he can revel in the good times. But his attempt to escape death is doomed to failure: everybody has to die eventually.
Detailed explanation-3: -The story follows Prince Prospero’s attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball in seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the beginning of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death, ” Prince Prospero locks himself away in a castellated abbey to hide from a terrible plague.