ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The easternmost room is decorated in blue, with blue stained-glass windows. The next room is purple with the same stained-glass window pattern. The rooms continue westward, according to this design, in the following color arrangement: green, orange, white, and violet. The seventh room is black, with red windows.

Detailed explanation-2: -Blue represents birth, purple represents a transition to royalty, green represents the growth of youth, orange represents strength and maturity, white is purity, and violet–the last stage before the red and black room representing death in the story–represents the knowledge and wisdom that comes with age.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The first room was blue; second was purple; third green; Fourth orange; fifth white; sixth violet; seventh black. Why do the guests avoid the seventh room? They avoid the seventh room because it looks terrifying and it reminds them of the plague.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death, Prince Prospero 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 within seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color.