What Does The Seventh Room Symbolize In The Masque Of The Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe loves to make his readers think. He never fully shows what he means. He hides everything so explicit and secrete. Prince Prospero is the main character and he believes that he’s better than death or can escape it. But, poe illustrates that no one can escape death with a fatal ending. In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Poe uses the symbolism of the black colored clock, the ticking of the clock, and the seventh room to develop the theme of death.
In the story there was seven different rooms and the black room containing the only candle light. “Blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, black with scarlet.”These colors all have meanings about the stages of life through the rooms. From blue meaning the beginning and black with scarlet curtains in the ending, which is a representation of death. The room was a black heaven to show the importance of the room. “There was no… suite of life.” (Paragraph 4). The clock had many more reasons. Another was that it represented more than just time. The ebony clock also represented life. The room also expanded into a deeper meaning, the meaning of death. It was the last stage of life. The last room contained red curtains that represented spilled blood or

“By representing death, art creates comforting illusion that death is just one of art’s illusions.” He’s saying that something can represent death and you can assume that he’s stating that the clock is the illusion and that it represents death. Every part of the house came together to play a huge role. The rooms and clock all came together to represent life and the meaning of it. It represented birth and death and how they come and will never leave. Being unable to avoid or evade Death is the obvious moral of the story. The theme or moral was created through the symbolism of the black colored clock, the humble ticking clock, and the importance of Prince Prospero’s