- Prince Prospero locks himself in his castle with friends to escape a plague called the Red Death that is ravaging the land. - He holds a masquerade ball with rooms decorated in different colors representing stages of life. - At midnight, a mysterious masked figure appears, capturing everyone's attention. Prince Prospero becomes angry and confronts the figure, realizing it is the Red Death, and dies along with everyone else in the castle.

3. Presented to Sir Siddique
Presented by Maryam Bibi
Mahnoor Fatima
Pakiza Mushtaq
THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH

4. EDGAR ALLAN POE
•Is an American writer who
known as the father of the
horror short stories.

5. SUMMARY
• The Red Death plagues the
land.
• The prince of that land was
sagacious and dauntless. he
had no concern with his public.
• Prince Prospero decides to lock
the gates of his palace in order
to keep away from the plague.

6. SUMMARY
• He invites his closest friends,his
courtiers and maidens to his
palace.
• He organizes a maske ball.

7. SUMMARY
oThe rooms represent the seven
stages of life. They are set from
east to west (how the sun sets and
ends):
oHe decorates the rooms of his
castle in single colours.

8. BLUE: birth
PURPLE: the beginning of growth
GREEN: the spring of life (Youth)
ORANGE: Summer and Autumn of life
WHITE: Winter- aging
VIOLET: darkness
BLACK: death

9. The ebony clock rings each hour. Its
sound is so loud and distracting that
everyone stops talking and the orchestra
stops playing.
At midnight, the clock sounds and the
guests begin to notice a mysterious
figure.
SUMMARY

10. there was this man
covered with a red
mask and caught the
attention of everybody;
the thing that Prince
Prospero did not like.

11. Prince Prospero becomes angry
with the strange guest. but suddenly
he knew that this man was the Red
Death.
Finally, Prospero confronts the
figure and dies. Then everyone dies
for the Red Death has infiltrated the
castle.
SUMMARY

12. CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

13. PROTAGONIST: PRINCE
PROSPERO
• A wealthy nobleman and a
victim of the Red Death. Prince
Prospero’s wealth turns out to
be irrelevant in the natural cycle
of life and death.

14. ANTAGONIST:
MYSTERIOUS GUEST
The personification of the Red
Death. The mysterious guest
brings death to those who
deny their own mortality.

15. THEME OF THE STORY

16. THEMES
DEATH
Life
Fate
Social class

17. SYMBOLS

18. DEATH
BLACK CHAMBER

19. BIRTH
BLUE CHAMBER

20. Beginning of Growth
PURPLE CHAMBER

21. Spring of Life
GREEN CHAMBER

22. SUMMER OR AUTUMN
ORANGE CHAMBER

23. AGE
WHITE CHAMBER

24. DARKNESS
VIOLET CHAMBER

25. ABBEY GATE:
Social barrier between the
poor and the wealthy

26. THE RED DEATH:
Death

27. MASKS:
The aristocrats attempt to
hide from the Red Death

28. PRINCE PROSPERO:
Ignorance; Inability to
accept death

29. EBONY CLOCK:
Passing time. People
cannot escape from Death

30. LITERARY
DEVICES

31. NARRATOR
THIRD PERSON
ALLUSION
illusions of safety are shattered.
The larger meaning may
be that all illusions of escaping
death are foolish

32. PERSONIFICATION:
The Red Death
ALLEGORY:
Humans´ desire to avoid death