ENG 200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masquerade Ball, Black Clock
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The masque of the red death edgar allen poe. A terrible disease called the red death has struck the country. It"s incredibly fatal, horribly gruesome, and it"s already killed off half the kingdom. But the ruler of these parts, prince prospero, doesn"t seem to care about his poor, dying subjects. Instead, he decides to let the kingdom take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools prospero"s castle has it all. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in the prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either . About five or six months into his stay, prospero decides to have a spectacular masquerade ball (a ball where the guests where masks and costumes). The setup is weird and wild, just like the prince who designs it.
