1. DEATH…

2. Prince was RUNNING THROUGH THE ROOMS WITH MY POE. you know how the short story goes! - Drake

3. Masque of the Red Death Alia Ahmadi, Bella Bielman, Claire Casper, Kara Bruns, Grace Bringard, Elena Brownlee

4. Basic Information Short Story: The Masque of the Red Death Author: Edgar Allen Poe Setting: The Prince’s Castle Point of View: 3 rd Person Protagonist: Prince Prospero – selfish, elitist and cowardly Antagonist: Death – scary, magical, lurking and antagonizing

5. TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We6zGSgoYXg

6. Theme YOU CAN’T ESCAPE DEATH It is developed by the people coming to the palace. They are trying to escape death but you can't. So since death couldn't get them outside the walls it came in and killed everyone.

7. Plot Summary The “RED DEATH” plagues the country. Prince Prospero invites his colleagues into the castle as the country’s population dies. At the fifth or sixth month, the Prince holds a masquerade ball for his guests, which was held in seven rooms: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. A grandfather clock was placed in the black room, chiming every sixty minutes and causing quiet and unusual discomfort among the guests. On the striking of the clock, the guests became aware of a masked individual who was covered in blood and looked like a walking corpse. The Prince catches sight of the stranger in the blue room, and demands the he be captured by sunrise. The Prince trailed the individual throughout the seven rooms, but the prince dies in the black room. All of the guests are dead and the clock fails to work by sunrise

8. Quotes ‘When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which with a slow and solemn movement, as if more fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage.’ This shows Poe’s style in the way that the character’s emotions progress. It is intense and progresses from one strong emotion to another. It is extreme and this shows up a lot in Poe’s work. ‘And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.’ Poe is a realist. He focuses a lot on death and despair in his writing. So this shows Poe very well. He often times talks about how death is inevitable. He focuses a lot on how nothing will ever work out and how everything sucks and that’s just too bad.

9. Quotes ‘The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed. The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat. And yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revelers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.’ Poe often times is really descriptive and gruesome at the same time. He is really good at imagery and making sure you know exactly how someone/something looks, but often times he makes it really gross.

10. Literary Devices Used - Symbolism - The blue room represents birth, purple (mix of blue and red) represents the beginning of growth, green represents youth, orange the autumn of life, white represents age, violet (mix of purple, blue, grey) represents living under the shadow of death, and the black room is obviously death. Pace of Plot - Its very slow at the beginning when Poe is describing the party and the rooms, and the plot picks up very, very quickly when the red death is spotted and everyone gets infected and dies Dialogue - The only place dialogue is used is when Prince Prospero addresses the Red Death Foreshadowing - The clock is foreshadowing imminent death that no one could avoid Characterization - The characters are relatively static, with no real change in anyone Dialect - the prince speaks as if he is from medieval times, but it is also modernized a little bit Irony - situational irony is present because the guests and the Prince retreated into the castle to escape the Red Death, but the Red Death came to the exclusive party and killed everyone Prince Prospero’s name promises prosperity for his guests between the walls of his castle, but it results in the death of everyone Description - the description of the party and the venue is extensive and a little redundant. It slows the plot down so that when the red death comes, the plot can pick up; Prince Prospero is chasing death running through the rooms of life which shows “the time that flies,” which is also shown by the Red Death (connections!!!)

11. Conflict Types of Conflict: Person Vs. Nature/Supernatural Force The Red Death plagues the country, and Prince Prospero resolves this conflict by taking all of his friends into the castle, away from infection. The masked man comes into the party, and the Prince chases him (death) into the black room, where the masked man kills him.

12. Game Time Prince Prospero invites everyone to be locked in the castle to be safe from the Red Death every time the hour tolls, the partygoers are reminded of the passing of time and Death when the clock strikes twelve, masked figure appears prince orders people to seize and kill the figure – but it’s Death Death ends up killing everyone - cards are handed out - other person who gets the “joker” is DEATH - other person who gets the “king” is PRINCE PROSPERO - everyone walks around and makes eye contact with people - the person who is DEATH kills people by winking at them - the person who is PRINCE PROSPERO can shout out the name of the person who is death is if they figure it out - last one to die doesn’t get anything but to watch all their friends die – remember kids, death is inevitable and can’t be outrun INSTRUCTIONS: