LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Seven. Blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black with scarlet panes.
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It is a song.
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Its an outfit
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It is a plague.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poe named his fictional disease “red” death, probably to differentiate it from “black” death, otherwise known as the plague. “Red” death is also descriptive of the profuse bleeding characteristic of this fictional 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: -Poe uses allegory as a tool in order to convey both literal and symbolic meaning throughout the telling of the story, for example with the masked phantom that is literally the plague and symbolically the proof that you cannot escape death.
Detailed explanation-4: -“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” One word in this somewhat grim, ghastly, gaunt and ominous sounding line, the last sentence of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, has always fascinated me: the word “illimitable”.