The Masque Of The Red Death

The Masque of the release Death by Edgar Allan Poe www.world-english.org

The red ending had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal--the madness and the horror of blood. thither were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest toss which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress, and finish of the disease, were incidents of half an hour.

But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep privacy of one of his crenellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the princes own compositors case yet august taste. A strong and lofty hem in girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.

They resolved to leave means uncomplete of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of furore from within.



The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The impertinent world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was rabidness to grieve or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were enet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the Red Death.

It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his secrecy that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.

It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade. But first...If you loss to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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