First, the character Prince Prospero is an example of how no one can escape death even though you are wealthy. He is wealthy, rich and an upper-class person. “Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated…”(373). He was so happy of how the Red Death had killed half the population which makes him dauntless and wicked. His name Prospero conveys happiness. He …show more content…
“Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull...when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face...the hour was to be stricken...the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause”(374). The clock is in the seventh room, once again representing death. Every time the clock strikes an hour, the musicians stop playing and all the guests stop celebrating as well. Each hour is to be struck upon as their nearness of death. As the clock struck midnight it represented the end of the day meaning the end of life. This corresponds to the theme of how death is inevitable. Edgar Allan Poe symbolizes or represents the passing of life which can represent