3. Blue room---CALM/TRANQUILITY Purple room—ROYALTY Green room---LUCK/ENVY Orange room ---CAUTION White room---PURITY/PEACE Violet room ---FEMININITY Black room –--EVIL/FEAR/DEATH Scarlet – DANGER/DESIRE/BLOOD

4. The number 7 symbolizes the Seven Deadly Sins:

5.  BLUE – Birth  PURPLE – Growth  GREEN- Youth  ORANGE- Autumn of life  WHITE-Age (white hair & bones)  VIOLET- Darkness  BLACK- Death  The Red Death walked from Blue Room to the Black Room---it walks the course of life, leading from birth to death.  Prospero & his followers metaphorically & literally walk the “course of life to death”

6. Castellated Abbey = Confinement; Worldly Power; Threatening The Masquerade = Fantasy, Escape from Reality The Clock = The Passing of Life

7.  “like a thief in the night” = a line taken from the Thessalonians 5:4 (referring to last judgment when you least expect it)  Represents the end of the world  Prince & followers (sinners) ignore the inevitable & were “caught unprepared”; indulging in the “pleasures of the world”  Poe may have been trying to warn people ---to be prepared for death and not to act like we will live forever “And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all”

8.  Decide on an OVERALL THEME for your room  You MUST have at least 6 items that specifically symbolize something  You MUST COLOR your room.  Make a “Legend” for your symbols  Your title is the THEME of your room  You will be graded on: CREATIVITY,ORIGINALITY, PARTICIPATION, 6 ITEMS meaning/theme  REMEMBER: THIS IS A TEST GRADE!!!