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The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Masque of the Red Death

The Fifth Paragraph of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is about the clock and how it makes people stop for a moment when it strikes the hour. It also represents death.

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The Masque of the Red Death

The masquerade in "The Masque of the Red Death" is considered a dream due to its surreal, illusory atmosphere and the bizarre, grotesque imagery Poe uses to describe it. The event, with its strange...

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