Compare And Contrast The Masque Of The Red Death And Nothing In The Dark

The Masque of the Red Death" and "Nothing in the Dark" appear very different at first but a closer look reveals the two stories actually have very similar plots, characters, and settings.
In the short story "The Masquerade Of The Red Mask" Prince Prospero was the protagonist he is described as " a bold and robust man." (Poe,3) During Prince Prospero's time there was a very ill plague going around killing people so for the few thousand that did survive Prince Prospero ended up throwing a little masquerade ball everyone came dressed up in costumes and mask. The masquerade is a little party for everyone that survived the plague they wanted to be happy and celebrate that they are still alive Prince Prospero welded the castle gates close so that

way nobody would be able to get in or out of the castle everyone was trapped inside.
During the masquerade a figure appears out of the mist with the masque of The Red Death Prince Prospero demands that the figure unmask himself and that he be hung at sunrise.

Prince Prospero's guest shrink in fear of the figure and what they see but Prince Prospero didn't care he chased the figure in pursuit through all sic of the rooms until they got to the seventh room. Price Prospero chased the figure until they got to the seventh room then Prince Prospero fell to the ground without catching himself or anything because death got to him when the guest noticed that the figure killed Prospero they all jumped on the figure but came out clutching nothing but clothing. The guest were all dying in their tracks after they hopped on the figure clutching clothing and coming out with nothing they all started dying in their tracks and blood was splattered all over the hall

walls.
In the short film "Nothing In The Dark" the old woman Wanda Dunn was scared of death the same way Prince Prospero was when the story first began both characters from the story feared death but Wanda Dunn knew that Death would come in a figure as a human and he tried many times to get to Wanda but she just didn't want to die.
Wanda Dunn wasn't stupid she knew Mr.

Death would be coming for her anytime so she locked herself away in her little apartment and never went out she didn't go out to get groceries or anything she said that she had seen Mr. Death plenty of times while she was out and she would never forget his face she remembered every time someone came to her door she thought that it would be Mr. Death and most of the time she was right because she could remember what he looked like.
Wanda never went out for food or anything she said in the short film that if she needed groceries a young boy would come by and pick the list up from outside and leave the groceries outside and she would leave the money outside for him to grab and leave. Wanda knew what death looked like but she wasn't scared to die she was scared of what death would feel like while she was being taken away. Wanda's fear was Death in the short story Prince Prospero was the same way he thought that he could escape death but everybody knows that their day will

come.
Wanda has pretty much trapped herself inside her apartment to avoid Mr. Death but while doing that she is also avoiding life and doesn't communicate with the outside world at all Wanda doesn't want her life to end so she locks herself away and she tells you in the screen play that she has locked herself away for years. When Wanda steps outside to help the so called police she is surprised that she is still alive and she can't believe it Wanda was amazed that she made it outside she was afraid to get her life taken away.
Wanda gets confronted by the city contractor about taking the building down because it is very old and could fall at any moment but Wanda looks at the police officer and tries to get him to explain her reasoning to the contractor. When the contractor leaves Wanda asks the police man why didn't he say anything to the contractor and then the so called police man tells Wanda to look in the mirror and then Wanda notices that nobody can see him because it is really Mr. Death. Mr. Death tricked Wanda into letting him in and it was all because he had to find a way to gain her trust Wanda acts so surprised when she knew that she couldn't live forever and that it was her time to go.
In the screen play and the short story they are both the same they are just a little different they have different characters and different settings when you look closer into the short story and screen play you will see that they have their similarities and their differences they could both be close to identical because both characters thought of a way to be able to avoid death. Everybody knows that you can't escape death when it is your time then its your time to go everybody has their own calling and when it happens you would never know when it is coming.