Masque Of The Red Death

Oppression lurks within a hierarchical structure and it is where opulence lies in the control of the nobility while the underprivileged suffer. Before the French Revolution, the aristocrats quarantined themselves in illusory settings where it was serene, festive, and filled with laughter. Thereof, the peasantry masses broke in; and, it was then that the lower masses nevermore submitted to the aristocracy and the nobles did not feel safe once more. The Masque of the Red Death is a gothic allegory composed by Edgar Allan Poe that exposes the corruption in a feudalistic system that devastated Europe. It fixates on the nobility who hid behind closed doors to enthrall themselves in petty pleasures and rejected the external world who was dying of

The ebony clock, Prince Prospero, the castle, and the seven rooms all intertwine to demonstrate how the nobles escaped to a wonderland where they excluded their social responsibilities and neglected the lower class. Their allegorical counterparts reflect the notions of both life and death and how impotent Prince Prospero was trying to fend off the grasp of death, "It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence". The name of Prince Prospero conveys financial prosperity; furthermore, it emphasizes how he exploited his own wealth and retreated for protection, hence allegorizing the inevitable doom of feudalism. Under any system, all leaders have a responsibility to protect and serve their citizens, Prospero only protected his fellow wealthy companions and left the commoners to fend for themselves. His arrogance integrates with an appalling apathy towards the trouble of the lower class. In spite of his overflowing wealth and power, he chose not to assist the poor and used his wealth as a self-defense mechanism and for decadent pleasures. In the interior of the castle lied seven rooms, each outlined with a different color of the spectrum, "the eastern extremity was hung...in blue

The noble’s attempts to stave off mortality were futile; thus, through time they impelled to perceive the coming vengeance of the lower class. Therefore, justice triumphed through the power of death against the wealthy; both the rich and poor are all equal in the eyes of death. Prince Prospero knew that the prosperity of the illusion of safety, relied upon psychological transformation and ignorance of the outside world and of the Red Death, "summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revelers at once threw themselves into the black apartment...gasped in utterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask...untenanted by any tangible force". When the force of the Red Death exposed itself, it shed light upon the sins of the aristocrats. The use of revelry as a defense mechanism against the fear of the poor, indefinitely exposed of the guilt that lied within the noble's was enough to bring them to their end. Furthermore, the presence of the Red Death elucidates the overthrowing of feudalism, the lower masses will no longer deal with brutality and impudence from the rich, they will seek forth justice, " like a thief in the night". In any system, regardless of what may seem like an inconceivable task to achieve, through time the upper class would collapse through revolution. It is inhumane