The Masque of the Red Death?

Question

I have an essay to wirte for my english class about "The Masque of the Red Death" but the day they read the story I was absent. Can someone please help me with this eassy prompt.




"people inside the abbey have a very diffeent life form the people outside the abbey. In an essay, explain how this contrast and the common fate that the characters share reveal the theme of the story."

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death_%28film%29
http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poe/masque_of_the_red_death.html

check the last one - think it is the short story

Answer 2

Well, the times I've read the "Masque of the Red Death" I've always been reminded of the Black Plague. So I'd look for an illness/disease simlar to the plague (by similar I mean outbreaks or epidemics known to kill lots of people). Probably something like the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak, ebola, AIDS. Naturally, the only "character" who would return from Poe's classic short story would be the Red Death itself. Prince Prospero and all his noble guests were dead at the end of the story, so they would make a return. Probably change Prospero and his friends into modern buisnessmen and millionaires or nineteenth and early twentith century Robber barons. Have one be really important and bring in a ton of friends to escape the outbreak only to have the Red Death show up and kill everyone of them.

Answer 3

Basically some guy and all his rich friends decide to throw a masquerade ball while a horrible plague is going on outside. I think that the story really illustrates the fact that no matter what social class you are in, that everyone ends up the same. There is no escaping death just because you are part of the upper class. Even if humans are not equal in life, they will be equal in death.

Answer 4

heres the story so you could read it:

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/36/


i had to read it for class once too