anyone know what the "Red Death" is/was...?

Question

...as in the novel called "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe?

and i know the Black Death was the bubonic plague, and White Death was tuberculosis...so wot could the red death be?i thought maybe smallpox but i duno..

Answer 1

Poe's Red Death resembles a horrible disease that overtook much of Europe the the 14th -16th century: septicemic plague. People would get up perfectly well and die the same day, with much the same symptoms Poe describes. Of course, in the Masque of the Red Death, Poe uses this disease to make the point that no one knows the hour of their death and that if you have the power to help others, do it now, before you're struck down.

Answer 2

the bubonic plague - known as the black death as well but Poe used the colour of blood to signify the mark of death.
Bleeding,especially about the face, was a symptom of the plague. Hence the masque.

Answer 3

Bubonic plague

Answer 4

Gee Bee is smart and shows how language has been used to describe distinction and as used by using that race has got here across positivity How I wish black human beings must be so helpful yet I particularly have met few who do no longer blame and act as sufferers. solid on the Washington Redskins and that i wish them properly in interest as they practice what positivity is all approximately. How boring we would be if we've been all brown/white/pink or yellow. If I call a black guy black here in England now,to his face...boy will my face be pink.

Answer 5

The nature of the disease actually depicted as the Red Death is uncertain. Poe describes it as having "sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores" and death within half an hour. Some scholars feel that it is Poe's perception of tuberculosis (or consumption, as it was known then). Poe had already lost two of his female relatives to this disease. The onset of the disease was usually heralded by coughing up of blood. The infected person then went on to develop worsening blood loss as the disease progressed to fatality. However, unlike the "Red Death," which kills within half an hour, tuberculosis usually took several years to kill its victims.

Answer 6

There is no such thing, however it is speculated that Poe was refering to Tuberculosis, which had killed several of his relatives. Great story though, isn't it? One of my favorites.

Answer 7

It was definitely -not- the bubonic plague. Whoever thinks so is rather a moron.

Answer 8

the red death was a virunlet form of std.

Answer 9

TB