Answer checker the red mask

Ms. Vanko
Edgar Allen Poe Story

1. Compare your answers/ideas!
The Red Mask of Death J
Please be sure you have
completed your answers
and discussed ideas with
people around you before
you check.

2. 1. Why do Prince Prospero and his
followers retreat to his palace?
He an his followers go to
the palace to escape the
Red Death Plague.

3. 2. Describe in specific detail the
series of rooms in which the
Masquerade Ball takes place.
• A series of 7 rooms in a zig-
zag paHern

4. Going from East to West:

• Blue
• Purple
• Green
• Orange
• White
• Violet
• Black

6. • To serve as lighKng, there are large
bowls of burning coals between the
rooms.
n In the black room there stands a huge
ebony grandfather clock.

7. • The decoraKons match the color of
each room.
n There is a Gothic window in each
room which panes match the color of
the room.
n The black room’s window panes are
the only excepKon: its panes are
“blood” red.

8. 3. Compare life outside the palace with
the life of the people Prospero brought
inside. (possible answers…)
Outside Inside
Reality
Fantasy
Death; DestrucKon
Life
Sorrow Happiness
Health Disease/Sickness
Despair Hope
Wealth Poverty

9. 4. Describe the intruder’s
appearance and behavior.
• It has a tall, gaunt (thin)
appearance
• It is “shrouded” with the “robe”
of the dead
• It resembles someone with the
red death disease.
• Its face is dabbed in blood.

10. STORY SYMBOLS

11. 5) Prince Prospero –
He might symbolize wealth or
prosperity.

He represents mankind's fuKle
(pointless) aHempt to live forever.

12. 6. The masquerade
The Masquerade party can represent
fantasy or escaping from reality.

13. 7. The masked figure –
This could represent death in
general…More specifically, the
Red Death Plague.

14. 8.The seven rooms with different
colors…
The Seven Deadly Sins
1. pride, 2. envy, 3. gluHony [greediness], 4. sloth [laziness],
5. lust [desire], 6. avarice [materialism], 7. wrath [anger]
The Seven Stages of Life
(infancy, childhood, teen years, young adulthood, middle
age, old age, death)
The Life Cycle
*You can also talk about what each
color might mean…