![]() ![]() ![]() Once inside, and provisioned for a long stay, the party seals the abbey’s iron gates shut so that no one can enter or leave, thereby avoiding the plague. They all seclude themselves in one of the prince’s castellated abbeys (an abbey with the architectural fortifications of a castle). Prince Prospero, his kingdom half depopulated, summons a thousand knights and dames of his court. Once infected, the victims die quickly, the whole progress of sickness “the incidents of half an hour” (739). The Red Death causes horrific symptoms, with bloody stains appearing on the body and face of the victim, a sign of sickness which for every victim “shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men” (739). A detailed summary follows.Ī plague known as “Red Death” has devastated the country-side. This study guide uses “The Masque of the Red Death” as it is printed in the 1983 edition of The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe, published by Running Press. ![]()
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