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    <title>The Masque of the Red Death Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[how do the seven deadly sins relate the seven rooms in this story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how do the seven deadly sins relate the seven rooms in this story?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am doing a research paper in english 102 on The Masque of the Red...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am doing a research paper in english 102 on The Masque of the Red Death and i need a thesis topic on setting?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:06:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Red Death refers to the Great Plague of 1665. It was worst in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Red Death refers to the Great Plague of 1665. It was worst in the poor areas of London. Symptoms of the Plague were first red, circular blotches on the skin. The blotches turned into pus filled sacs. They were very painful. After this stage, the patient experienced intense sneezing, that ended in death.
The disease spread quickly. The wealthy people escaped to the countryside. The poor people could not escape. A big red x was pinted on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:11:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens to the people who have the Red Death?
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        <description><![CDATA[What happens to the people who have the Red Death?
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:17:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[WHY MIGHT THE PRINCE BE SO DRAWN TO EXCESSIVE LUXURY AND CONSTANT...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[WHY MIGHT THE PRINCE BE SO DRAWN TO EXCESSIVE LUXURY AND CONSTANT MERRIMENT?WHAT DETAILS DOES POE USE TO PORTRAY THE PRINCE'S OBSESSIVE NATURE?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:43:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens is revealed in the very first lines of the story:

The'Red...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/masque-red-death/q-and-a/what-happens-country-this-story-how-does-prince-112507</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What happens is revealed in the very first lines of the story:

The'Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.

So, the country is being torn apart by a terrible disease. It kills so quickly, one can assume businesses are failing, fields are remaining unharvested, and people are panicking uncontrollably. It's really...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:39:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens to the country in this story? How do Prince Prospero's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What happens to the country in this story? How do Prince Prospero's reactions to these events reveal his character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:37:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's entirely possible that Poe is using this allegory to criticize the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's entirely possible that Poe is using this allegory to criticize the western world, that shuts itself off from the hardship, poverty, disease, and distress of the rest of the world, and live happily ignoring death.  I think he likes reminding us that for all our grand attempts to hide ourselves away from death, we are still going to die.  I like the "rain falls on the just and unjust alike" angle, but I think there's a lot more to it....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:48:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Herod the Great is who I assume you mean by Herard?  Herod was an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Herod the Great is who I assume you mean by Herard?  Herod was an extremely bloody ruler.  The expression in the story "out-Herod Herod"  means basically to be even more bloody and violent (or extreme) than someone (herod) who is the epitome of an extreme.  An analogy would be to out-Michael Jordan Michael Jordan.  That, of course, meaning that you did the "Michael Jordan thing" better than he did.
 
In literature one common archetype is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:28:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the meanings of Herard, west room(black room is in the west...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the meanings of Herard, west room(black room is in the west why?)clock of ebony (it's on the west), number seven and blood color of window?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:48:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My initial response to the entrance of the villainous masked figure was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My initial response to the entrance of the villainous masked figure was one of pure fright. Poe frightened me so deeply with this story that I swore off Poe for life! I only go back to Poe under duress (course work) or when some higher aim beckons, like answering a student's question!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:32:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The purple room in Poe's The Masque of the Red Death represents the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The purple room in Poe's The Masque of the Red Death represents the second Deadly Sin, which is Greed. Greed, or avarice, is insatiable, excessive desire for wealth and all material goods.
All seven Deadly Sins are, from first to seventh, Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath (severe anger), Lust, Gluttony, Sloth. Each has a room assigned and each is present in The Masque of the Red Death. The Seven Deadly Sins are of such a monstrous nature because of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:31:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Masque of the Red Death, what does the purple room symbolize and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Masque of the Red Death, what does the purple room symbolize and what stage of life does it represent?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:35:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Before the masked figure arrives, the masquerade is basically the party...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Before the masked figure arrives, the masquerade is basically the party of the century. The partygoers have anything they could want, and they celebrate accordingly. Poe notes "there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within." So these people were comfortable and happy in their revelry.
Or were they? When the massive ebony clock in the seventh apartment strikes the hour,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:18:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do the people at the masque feel before the Red Death arrives?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/masque-red-death/q-and-a/how-do-people-masque-feel-before-red-death-arrives-110471</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do the people at the masque feel before the Red Death arrives?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:53:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The costumes are many and varied, and are never identified individually....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The costumes are many and varied, and are never identified individually. Yet Poe's description creates a scene of revelry, where costumers let their minds run free to design masques of all imaginations.

Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm—There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There was much of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:20:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this story, Prince Prospero devises an idea to remain safe from the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this story, Prince Prospero devises an idea to remain safe from the plague that "had long devastated the country". He decides to enclose himself in his castle, and seal it up so nothing can come in, and nothing can get out. He hires men to bolt the doors and weld them shut, creating what he thinks will be a safe haven from the disease.
However, he doesn't want to spend the rest of his days alone, so he invites "a thousand hale and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:01:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What were the costumes at the masquerade ball?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What were the costumes at the masquerade ball?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:43:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Masque of the Red Death," whom does Prince Prospero invite to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Masque of the Red Death," whom does Prince Prospero invite to his abbey?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:39:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To put it simply, no one is allowed in or out because "The 'RED DEATH'...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/masque-red-death/q-and-a/why-no-one-allowed-either-into-out-abbey-108949</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To put it simply, no one is allowed in or out because "The 'RED DEATH' had long devastated the country", &amp; Prince Prospero's sole reason for bringing "a thousand hale and light-hearted friends" into his castle is to remain immune from the disease. The measures to which the prince goes to keep the illness at bay are remarkable:

A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:55:46 PST</pubDate>
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