Name Instructors Name Course Date This short story of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is one that applies allegorical symbol with deep meaning. In this story, Poe seems to be obsessed by death, and that is the fear of dying. Poe writes this story to symbolize the universal fear held by humans on death and exposes them on the numerous ways that people try to avoid it. Poe’s horror comes with the fact of being skeptical about traditional religious beliefs, a problem that lured most people’s mind in the Western World with the advent of science and reason. Poe uses a symbol of a masked figure to represent a disease which crashes on Prince Prospero’s party...
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