Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque Of Red Death

Plague, terror and death swept the country. “No pestilence had ever been so fatal”. In Edgar Allen Poe’s the Masque of Red Death, the author uses setting, imagery and suspense to convey the theme that death is inescapable. The story is set in Prince Prospero’s abbey somewhere isolated from the rest of the country and the people in it are trapped inside while the people outside can not get in. The abbeys sense of confinement is threatening and everyone both inside and out has so capability to escape death from the plague. “Not only is it deeply secluded, but Prospero and his followers welded the doors shut, so no one can get in or out” (Canada). Poe uses imagery, more specifically the sense of sight, to express the appearance of the Red