Prince Prospero's The Masque Of The Red Death

"The Masque of the Red Death" can be seen as an allegory about death. In the story Prince Prospero tries to avoid the deadly plague by gathering some friends and going to “one of his castellated abbeys” (687). Abbeys are usually a place where monks and nuns in the religious life live. This could be interpreted to mean that when faced with death people seek out religious or spiritual sanctuary. The colors of the rooms are significant. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue—and vividly blue were its windows” (688). The writer progresses down corridors describing rooms of various colors until reaching the western or black chamber. The walk down the corridor, from east to west, seems to signify birth, life and death, similar