The Masque Of The Red Death Mood

Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He had two siblings’ henry and Rosalie. Poe’s mother died when he was only two and he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allen. Poe attended good schools and eventually went to military school and was expelled. Poe found love to his cousin Virginia and married her when he was twenty seven and she was thirteen. Poe became unhappy after Virginia passed away and he began to drink. His stories are related to his life. He writes them dark and depressing. Poe passed away on October 7, 1847. Nobody really knows the exact reason for his death.
In the stories “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Cask of Amontillado” “The Premature Burial” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” all the settings are similar.

In the stories “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Cask of Amontillado” “The Premature Burial” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” all share a depressing and dreary mood. The moods he chooses to put in his stories all are similar to his life. In “The Masque of the Red Death” the quote, “Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jest, there are matter of which no jest can be made” Poe has lost many people he loved due to death and this changed him as a person. He became a dark and dreary person. In the quotes it talks about death, which causes a depressing mood. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” it says, “The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death” in this quote Poe is writing about a disease that leads to death. Poe had many people he loved die from a disease so that is how he is relaying the disease to death. In “The Premature Burial” Poe's mood is depressing, he writes about being buried alive. Being buried alive was a fear of Poe's. In the story it says, “When the grim darkness overspread the earth, then, with every horror of thought, I shook—shook as the quivering plumes upon the hearse”. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe sticks with the depressing mood. It says, “We had passed through long walls of

Poe uses the conflict of death in “The Masque of the Red Death” by saying, “He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure”. This shows death approaching. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe uses conflict of death when Madeline escapes from being buried alive. In the story it says, “After the placing of the lady Madeline within the donjon, that I experienced the full power of such feelings”. This quote shows how the narrator is afraid of Madeline’s death. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor hesitates on finishing the trapping of Fortunato. In the story it says, “I began to grope with it about the recess: but the thought of an instant reassured me” this shows Montresor’s fear of killing Fortunato. In “The Premature Burial” Poe uses conflict of death by being afraid of being buried alive. The narrator’s wife was buried and apparently she never died and escaped her grave. This scared the narrator even more. In the story it says, “The movement of the jaws, in this effort to cry aloud, showed me that they were bound up, as is usual with the dead. I felt, too, that I lay upon some hard substances, and by something similar my sides were, also, closely compressed”. In this quote it shows the narrator thinking he was buried