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        <title><![CDATA[People are often drawn to things that help them escape the realities of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[People are often drawn to things that help them escape the realities of daily life.  For example, someone who works in a hectic city might like looking at pictures of the country or the mountains, and might travel to those places frequently.  What do you know about life outside of the castle walls?  What reality/events might the prince be trying to escape?
As for the prince's "obsessive nature", you need to find passages that prove that the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are you looking for something in the story that parallels this line? ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are you looking for something in the story that parallels this line?  If so, you need to figure out what the line means.  The waltzers, in this case, are really dancers.  "Ceased their evolutions" means they stopped dancing.  The interesting word here is "perforce".  As you can probably guess, "perforce" means necessarily or unavoidably.  So, something has made the dancers stop dancing.
You probably know that the story is very...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the following description parallel in meaning from The Masque of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is the following description parallel in meaning from The Masque of the Red Death? the walzers perforce ceased their evolutions]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:37:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death takes on a Gothic and dark...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death takes on a Gothic and dark natured tone throughout the short story. The effect of the ebony clock on the guests is one of fear. Each time the clock sounds; everyone is motionless and does not speak. The band does not play.
The ebony clock is also located in the seventh or black and red room. Oddly enough, when the clock does not sound, the rooms take on a beautiful glow and there is not a sense of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:56:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Poe's tone in the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death?"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Poe's tone in the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death?" What effect did the ebony clock have on the guests every time it chimed?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:30:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[each of the colors of the rooms represent a seven deadly sin. like the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[each of the colors of the rooms represent a seven deadly sin. like the blue room would represent pride and the black room would represent sloth. you could also relate them to the seven stages of life. or you could combine both the seven deadly sins and the seven stages of life to the colors of the room. pride and birth would go with blue. sloth and death would go with black.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:36:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The big, ebony and draped Clock that lays "in the last room" represents...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The big, ebony and draped Clock that lays "in the last room" represents our battle against time which leads inevitably to death. This was one of Poe's obsessions.
The colors have various meanings according to separate research but they are, thus far
Purple: Royalty, riches
Orange is the flame of the fires of hell or passion of life
Green is substenance on earth, life, reproduction, the cycle of life
Blue is the ascend, the beginning
White is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:25:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Masque of the Red Death, what do the colors of each room...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Masque of the Red Death, what do the colors of each room represent? And what does the clock represent?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:01:43 PST</pubDate>
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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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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:52:11 PST</pubDate>
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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 is the prince drawn to excessive luxury &amp; merriment?  What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why is the prince drawn to excessive luxury &amp; merriment?  What details portray his obsessive nature in The Masque of the Red Death?]]></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>
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        <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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