LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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a day
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an hour
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thirty days
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thirty minutes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The red death is rampant throughout the country, killing people in thirty minutes after they contract the disease.
Detailed explanation-2: -The disease called the Red Death is fictitious. Poe describes it as causing “sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores” leading to death within half an hour.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Red Death Timeline and Summary The Red Death shows up at the masquerade ball at midnight, sharp.
Detailed explanation-4: -“The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its avatar and its seal-the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
Detailed explanation-5: -Like cholera at the time, the Red Death had no known cause or cure. The spectre of the real-life disease must surely have felt as frightening and inexorable as Poe’s fictionalised plague. Almost 100 years later, this resonates with the Coronavirus pandemic.