Character Analysis "Mask of the Red Death"

Engl 0102 Paper 2 February 27, 2006 Character Analysis of Mask of the inflamed Death I chose to analyze two of the partings within The mask of the Red Death, Prince Prospero, and The masked intruder at the leftover portrayed as death. The name that Edgar Allen Poe has given the main character entices a filmer to speculate. I decided it was necessary to read a short biography on Edgar Allen Poe; because one of the things that occurred to me as I read the short story I imaged the likes of Edgar Allen Poe any time the story line turned to Prince Prospero. Why this was I am not sure, maybe it was because of Poes picture on the graduation exercise page; but after reading the biography, I power saw a lot of similarities between Poe and his character Prince Prospero. It almost seems as if the prince is a personification of Poe in the story. In Edgar Allen Poes protest life, he was known to be rather strange and odd. He had a taste for the macabre and the bizarre. In the story we do find out that among the princes many qualities, he is also eccentric and shares a love of the bizarre and macabre. Further, like Poe the character is resonating of a young man of a wealthy and marvellous family.

Further looking at the character Prince Prospero, the name exclusively comes to mind. Prospero is suggestive of the word prosper, which means to do well, or be wealthy; it implies good fortune. Dictionary.com defines it --To be fortunate or successful, particularly in terms of ones finances; thrive. The events that occur in this story from the beginning are actually quite the contrary. He is the lord of the land he owns, but that is undermine by the horrid disease that engulfs and ravages the countryside, killing all that inhabits it: No gadfly had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. (Poe, 245). To protect himself from this terrible plague that is known in this story as the Red Death, Prince Prospero places himself and a thousand of his friends in... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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