Examples Of Allegory In The Masque Of The Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death“ is a very gothic laced story resembling humanity. Poe uses the allegory of a Masquerade Ball in a castle and all of its attendees as a sample to represent a broad hidden statement about the grimness and blindness of man under all of their face level of partying and bliss. This being the case, results in an unfortunate and untimely demise for them as they are visited by an enigmatic figure. The hidden message in Edgar Allan Poe’s allegory, “Masque of the Red Death,” is that no matter what circumstance that comes at man, he will always be the embodiment of sin awaiting death at the end of his road. One of the initial descriptions towards the beginning of the story is that of a clock ticking which no person at the party is quite fond of. This clock itself resembles life itself ticking away at the lives of these sinners in the castle. Their attempted ignorance to the ticking shows that they do not want to be reminded of their lives, they just want to party. Their overall inability to do as they wished and ignore the clock is simply a piece of evidence that proves the fact that whether they ignored it or despised it for lack of ability to ignore it, it was always right there waiting for them.
It is implied that these 7 rooms are symbolic representations of the 7 deadly sins of man. As the story and the party progresses the people go through all 7 different rooms. The point to be made is that no matter what room they were in, they partygoers would always leave one sin for another. This shows that no matter what they did another inescapable truth hung over the patrons heads, they as men are the embodiment of