ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose “costume” proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first room had blue cloth hangings on the wall-and blue were its windows. The second room had wall hangings of that blue-red known as purple, and here the windows were purple. The third was green, and so was the glass of the windows.

Detailed explanation-3: -The black room, which looks like death, is awfully creepy-it’s got dark black walls, blood red windows, and big black clock which chimes so eerily every hour that everybody at the party stops dancing and laughs nervously.

Detailed explanation-4: -Death is everywhere in this story, from the opening description of the “Red Death” plague to the closing line about death’s “dominion.” Images and symbols of death practically drip from its pages, reminding the characters, and the reader, of death’s inevitability.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the short story “The Masque of the Red Death, ” by Edgar Allan Poe, Prince Prospero secluded himself from the Red Death. The plague quickly killed a large portion of the population. In the end, the Red Death kills the prince and his companions from within the abbey.