The Red Death And Nothing In The Dark Comparison

Everyone has fears, but the most common fear around the world is death. No one really has a clue on how death works nor when it is coming. It is so freighting yet fascinating. Two stories that walks through an example of this is Edgar Allen Poe's " The Masque of the Red Death" and George Clayton's "Nothing in the Dark" , shows two characters who show the same similarities yet live in completely different worlds.

Wanda Dunn from "Nothing in the Dark" lives in a isolated small apartment, locked away with many door locks on her door and only left her house to the front door to place a list of items and money for a young man to retrieve them for her. She cut all ties to the outside world fearing death would take her at any moment. She lives in a run down old abandon apartments, she is the only one living there now, because everyone else left because the city was going to tear down the old raggy building, yet they have not because Wanda still leaves there. She refuses to leaving fearing death will come and take her. She is so terrified that even spotting a mouse in her home she would scream her brains out till the mouse ran away. Her home

He invites one thousand friends to his home to hide from the plague of the Red Death that is raging through his country. He provides his guest with the luxury and greatness of his home and offers then much more. While all the poor and homeless are dying outside his walls from the red death, him and his guest are living it up in his castle unknown of what their uninvited guest is yet to bring. While everyone is having the time of their lives and not paying attention to what is going on outside the castle, a uninvited guest comes to crash the party. When the uninvited guest comes to the light, everyone looks at him terrified and all stop what they are doing. Death slowly comes and he kills everyone all at