1. Describe the internal and external workings of the Protagonist (Prince Prospero).
2. Why does Prince Prospero voluntarily isolate himself?
3. Who does Prince Prospero invite to his great fete?
4. Describe Prince Prospero's great fete and the physical description of each of the seven apartments (chambers).
5. Who is the villian and how does he represent the "repressed emotions" of Prince Prospero?
1. Prince Prospero is a very heartless person, “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half-depopulated…” This shows that he is heartless due to the fact that he was still a very happy person even when half of the people under his control died. As can be clearly seen in the color themed rooms which he had created, that the duke had a, “love of the bizarre.” Additionally, he thinks that because he is prince and is very wealthy, nothing can hurt him. Then finally, the Prince has a sick sense of humor due to the fact that the party he is hosting is a masquerade, when the Red Death makes your face turn red giving you a mask. While doing this he is also mocking the Red Death.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolated himself due to the fact that he wants to separate himself from the Red Death.
3. Prince Prospero invites to his fete: the knights and dames of his court, and, “buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians….” Those were for the entertainment of the guests.
4. Prince Prospero’s great fete featured buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, and musicians, Beauty, and wine. It was a masquerade ball, meaning that everybody was wearing a mask that concealed their face. There were seven suites which form a long and straight vista, which the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls. In addition, “the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time… To the right and left, in the middle if each wall, a tall narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suit. These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened.” The most eastern one was blue and had vividly blue windows. “The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple.” The suite third was green and had green window sashes. “The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet- a deep blood red.” However, none of the suites had lamps or candelabrum, there was also no light coming from any of the rooms. The rooms represented the journey from life to death.
5. The villain of the tale is the Red Death. He represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions which are that he is only mortal, by showing that everyone is mortal and will die. When he was chasing after the Red Death, who represented his own mortality, he is practically trying to chase away his own mortality.
Comment By:
Leah Eisenberg
1. Internally Prince Prospero is a very selfish and inconsiderate. He knows that his people are dying of a very serious, painful, and contagious death, yet he does nothing to help prevent the spread of the disease. Instead of helping he locks himself and the knights and dames of his court into his chambers. That way he can protect himself from the “Red Death” and also have the luxuries that he has always had; including performers. He also decides to make the gathering of his people a masquerade. He mocks the “Red Death” by taking away the identities and faces of those in attendance the same way that the “Red Death” takes away the faces of its victims. Externally Prince Prospero has wealth and can afford to have whatever he desires. Because of his money and power he believes he is immortal and that he is invincible.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero isolates himself as a way to avoid the “Red Death”.
3. Prince Prospero invites the knights and dames of his court. He also includes jesters, ballet-dancers, musicians, beauty, and wine.
4. The fete included entertainment to keep the guests amused and satisfied. There were seven chambers. The first chamber in the east was blue with windows. The second chamber was purple. Everything was purple; the tapestries, the ornaments, and the panes. The third chamber was green from top to bottom including the casements. The fifth room was furnished with orange. The sixth room was violet. The seventh chamber had black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls where they fell in heavy folds upon the carpet. The panes were a scarlet or deep blood color.
5. The villain of the tale is the “Red Death”. This represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions of mortality. He wants to be immortal and feels that his money gives him more power over death. But in the story after trying to chase the “Red Death” with a dagger he drops the dagger. At that moment he loses power and dies.
1. the external workings of prince prospero were reflected through his surroundings as colors and ideas that symbolized metaphors with deeper meanings such as the clock on the wall symbolized the time they had left before their demise came into play. The internal workings were his moods and manners like his sense of humor he shows by throwing this masquerade to taunt the red death .he is also selfish and this personality trait is portrayed by him isolating himself like his wealth and power shall protect him from the plauge.
ReplyDelete2.Prince Prospero vonluntarily isolates himself because he is selfish. He thinks because he has the wealth and power he can do what he wants to protect himself and let the others suffer for him.
3.Prince Prospero invites the kings and queen and dames of his court.
4. The great fete was the moveable embellishments of seven chambers of which each is a color and each color represents the life cycle from blue that symbolizes you and infancy to black which symbolizes the demise or death of a person.
5. The villian is Red Death because he represents the mortality that Prince Prospero is trying to repress.
1. Prince Prospero was mean, selfish, and he was a hedonist, which means he cared about his good only and never about the well being of others. When his land was half depopulated, he trapped himself inside of his castle, and instead of using his wealth to help and attempt to save his townspeople, he used his money to throw a ball that made fun of the dying townspeople. His internal workings show that he's selfish and he makes fun of people with the red death by having a masquerade.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself to stop from getting the red death.
3.Prince Prospero invites the knights, jesters, dames, improvisatori for entertainment to his guests.
4. The fete was there to entertain Prince Prospero's guests. There were seven rooms, the first room was blue, the last one black representing death, all the rooms represented various stages of life.
5. The villian is Red Death because he represents Prince Prospero's mortailty.
-Jon
5. To elaborate more on the repressed emotions , the red death represents the mortality that the prince does not want to accept. his worship of Satan and beliefs that Satan is the ruler of life and death leads him to believe that he is immortal and that his life will be spared. However, that is not the case and the Red Death shows him this by making him meet his demise. - DesirayW
ReplyDelete1. Prince Prospero was mean, selfish, and he was a hedonist, which means he cared about his good only and never about the well being of others. When his land was half depopulated, he trapped himself inside of his castle, and instead of using his wealth to help and attempt to save his towns people, he used his money to throw a ball that made fun of the dying townspeople. His internal workings show that he's selfish and he makes fun of people with the red death by having a masquerade.
ReplyDelete2. 2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself to stop from getting the red death.
3. 3.Prince Prospero invites the knights, jesters, dames, improvisatori for entertainment to his guests.
4. 4. The fete was there to entertain Prince Prospero's guests. The clock represents life ticking, that is why the older people seemed to be afraid, because they are worried that they are dying on the chime, because the chime represents death. In the story, the person with the red mask is Death, or the Red Death. This is in to say how nobody could escape death even with all the money and power in the world, and that life eventually ends no matter what. The rooms were positioned East to West, East being at the beginning and West at the end. East is the direction that the sun rises, and west is where it sets. This represents life and death. It could also represent biblical references, such as the number 7. 7 could mean the seven deadly sins, which Prince Prospero breaks in the story progressively, seven could be the creation theory which is the idea that god created the world in 7 days.
5. 5. The villian is Red Death because he represents Prince Prospero's mortailty. He feels like everything revolves around him, and because he has everlasting money that he can’t die so it also represents his repressed emotions of his thoughts that he can last forever. -Jon
1. Prince Prospero is a very heartless person, “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half-depopulated,” (Poe 256). This shows that he is heartless due to the fact that he was still a very happy person even when half of the people under his control died. As can be clearly seen in the color themed rooms which he had created, that the duke had a, “love of the bizarre,” (Poe 257). Additionally, he thinks that because he is prince and is very wealthy, nothing can hurt him. Then finally, the Prince has a sick sense of humor due to the fact that the party he is hosting is a masquerade, when the Red Death makes your face turn red giving you a mask. While doing this he is also mocking the Red Death.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolated himself due to the fact that he wants to separate himself from the Red Death.
3. Prince Prospero invites to his fete: the knights and dames of his court, and, “buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians,” (Poe 257). Those were for the entertainment of the guests.
4. Prince Prospero’s great fete featured buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, and musicians, Beauty, and wine. It was a masquerade ball, meaning that everybody was wearing a mask that concealed their face. There were seven suites which form a long and straight vista, which the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls. In addition, “the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time… To the right and left, in the middle if each wall, a tall narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suit. These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened,” (Poe 257). The most eastern one was blue and had vividly blue windows. “The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple,” (Poe 257). The suite third was green and had green window sashes. “The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet- a deep blood red,” (Poe 257). However, none of the suites had lamps or candelabrum, there was also no light coming from any of the rooms. The rooms represented the journey from life to death.
5. The villain of the tale is the Red Death. He represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions which are that he is only mortal, by showing that everyone is mortal and will die. When he was chasing after the Red Death, who represented his own mortality, he is practically trying to chase away his own mortality.
Comment By: Leah Eisenberg
1. Prince Prospero is a very heartless person, “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half-depopulated,” (Poe 256). This shows that he is heartless due to the fact that he was still a very happy person even when half of the people under his control died. As can be clearly seen in the color themed rooms which he had created, that the duke had a, “love of the bizarre,” (Poe 257). Additionally, he thinks that because he is prince and is very wealthy, nothing can hurt him. Then finally, the Prince has a sick sense of humor due to the fact that the party he is hosting is a masquerade, when the Red Death makes your face turn red giving you a mask. While doing this he is also mocking the Red Death.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolated himself due to the fact that he wants to separate himself from the Red Death.
3. Prince Prospero invites to his fete: the knights and dames of his court, and, “buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians,” (Poe 257). Those were for the entertainment of the guests.
4. Prince Prospero’s great fete featured buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, and musicians, Beauty, and wine. It was a masquerade ball, meaning that everybody was wearing a mask that concealed their face. There were seven suites which form a long and straight vista, which the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls. In addition, “the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time… To the right and left, in the middle if each wall, a tall narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suit. These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened,” (Poe 257). The most eastern one was blue and had vividly blue windows. “The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple,” (Poe 257). The suite third was green and had green window sashes. “The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet- a deep blood red,” (Poe 257). However, none of the suites had lamps or candelabrum, there was also no light coming from any of the rooms. The rooms represented the journey from life to death.
5. The villain of the tale is the Red Death. He represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions which are that he is only mortal, by showing that everyone is mortal and will die. When he was chasing after the Red Death, who represented his own mortality, he is practically trying to chase away his own mortality. When, “the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterward, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero,” (Poe 260), he gave up his fight against his own mortality, and died. This is because the dagger represented the Prince’s power over his own mortality.
Comment By: Leah Eisenberg
1. Prince Prospero is a very heartless person, “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half-depopulated,” (Poe 256). This shows that he is heartless due to the fact that he was still a very happy person even when half of the people under his control died. As can be clearly seen in the color themed rooms which he had created, that the duke had a, “love of the bizarre,” (Poe 257). Additionally, he thinks that because he is prince and is very wealthy, nothing can hurt him. Then finally, the Prince has a sick sense of humor due to the fact that the party he is hosting is a masquerade, when the Red Death makes your face turn red giving you a mask. While doing this he is also mocking the Red Death.
ReplyDelete2. When it was said in the text, “It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion,” (Poe 257), it means that the Prince is isolated from other people. As in all gothic literate the protagonist either voluntarily or involuntarily isolates himself or herself; in the case of this tale, Prince Prospero voluntarily isolated himself due to the fact that he wants to separate himself from the Red Death and its effects.
3. Prince Prospero invites to his fete: the knights and dames of his court, and, “buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians,” (Poe 257). Those were for the entertainment of the guests.
4. Prince Prospero’s great fete featured buffoons, improvisatori, ballet-dancers, and musicians, Beauty, and wine. It was a masquerade ball, meaning that everybody was wearing a mask that concealed their face. There were seven suites which form a long and straight vista, which the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls. In addition, “the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time… To the right and left, in the middle if each wall, a tall narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suit. These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened,” (Poe 257). The most eastern one was blue and had vividly blue windows. “The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple,” (Poe 257). The suite third was green and had green window sashes. “The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet- a deep blood red,” (Poe 257). However, none of the suites had lamps or candelabrum, there was also no light coming from any of the rooms. The rooms represented the journey from life to death.
5. The villain of the tale is the Red Death. He represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions which are that he is only mortal, by showing that everyone is mortal and will die. When he was chasing after the Red Death, who represented his own mortality, he is practically trying to chase away his own mortality. When, “the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterward, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero,” (Poe 260), he gave up his fight against his own mortality, and died. This is because the dagger represented the Prince’s power over his own mortality.
Comment By: Leah Eisenberg
1. Internally Prince Prospero is a very selfish and inconsiderate. He knows that his people are dying of a very serious, painful, and contagious death, yet he does nothing to help prevent the spread of the disease. I also think that he doesn’t do anything about the dying people because that means there is more money and anything else that in the kingdom for him. Instead of helping he locks himself and the knights and dames of his court into his chambers. That way he can protect himself from the “Red Death” and also have the luxuries that he has always had; including performers. He also decides to make the gathering of his people a masquerade. He mocks the “Red Death” by taking away the identities and faces of those in attendance the same way that the “Red Death” takes away the faces of its victims. Externally Prince Prospero has wealth and can afford to have whatever he desires. Because of his money and power he believes he is immortal and that he is invincible.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero isolates himself as a way to avoid the “Red Death”. He also isolates himself so he doesn’t have to see the victims of the “Red Death.
3. Prince Prospero invites the knights and dames of his court. He also includes jesters, ballet-dancers, musicians, beauty, and wine. All of these people were there so that he could enjoy his time in the castle and not be bored.
4. The fete included entertainment to keep the guests amused and satisfied. There were seven chambers. The first chamber in the east was blue with windows. The second chamber was purple. Everything was purple; the tapestries, the ornaments, and the panes. The third chamber was green from top to bottom including the casements. The fifth room was furnished with orange. The sixth room was violet. The seventh chamber had black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls where they fell in heavy folds upon the carpet. The panes were a scarlet or deep blood color. All the rooms represent the different stages of life.
5. The villain of the tale is the “Red Death”. This represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions of mortality. He wants to be immortal and feels that his money gives him more power over death. But in the story after trying to chase the “Red Death” with a dagger he drops the dagger. At that moment he loses power and dies. No one is immortal but because the prince had money he felt that he was more important than others.
- Kirsten L. Webb
1. Internally Prince Prospero is a very selfish and inconsiderate. He knows that his people are dying of a very serious, painful, and contagious death, yet he does nothing to help prevent the spread of the disease. I also think that he doesn’t do anything about the dying people because that means there is more money and anything else that in the kingdom for him. Instead of helping he locks himself and the knights and dames of his court into his chambers. That way he can protect himself from the “Red Death” and also have the luxuries that he has always had; including performers. He also decides to make the gathering of his people a masquerade. He mocks the “Red Death” by taking away the identities and faces of those in attendance the same way that the “Red Death” takes away the faces of its victims. Externally Prince Prospero has wealth and can afford to have whatever he desires. Because of his money and power he believes he is immortal and that he is invincible. At the end of the story it is clear that money will not save him from his fate.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero isolates himself as a way to avoid the “Red Death”. He also isolates himself so he doesn’t have to see the victims of the “Red Death. So in this tale he is voluntarily isolated.
3. Prince Prospero invites the knights and dames of his court. He also includes jesters, ballet-dancers, musicians, beauty, and wine. All of these people were there so that he could enjoy his time in the castle and not be bored. However, notice how he doesn’t invite any of the normal town people.
4. The fete included entertainment to keep the guests amused and satisfied. There were seven chambers. The first chamber in the east was blue with windows. The second chamber was purple. Everything was purple; the tapestries, the ornaments, and the panes. The third chamber was green from top to bottom including the casements. The fifth room was furnished with orange. The sixth room was violet. The seventh chamber had black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls where they fell in heavy folds upon the carpet. The panes were a scarlet or deep blood color. All the rooms represent the different stages of life. The lighter colored rooms represent youth and the darker colors represent old age and death.
5. The villain of the tale is the “Red Death”. This represents Prince Prospero’s repressed emotions of mortality. He wants to be immortal and feels that his money gives him more power over death. But in the story after trying to chase the “Red Death” with a dagger he drops the dagger. At that moment he loses power and dies. No one is immortal but because the prince had money he felt that he was more important than others. Prince Prospero went through all the planning for nothing, he still didn’t beat fate.
- Kirsten Webb.
to further explain the chambers , each of the chambers were different colors that represented different phases for life. The guest are swarming about the blue room. this chamber stands for the lively stage whhen you're young.
ReplyDelete-Desiray W
1. Prince Prospero was mean, selfish, and he was a hedonist, which means he cared about his good only and never about the well being of others. When his land was half depopulated, he trapped himself inside of his castle, and instead of using his wealth to help and attempt to save his towns people, he used his money to throw a ball that made fun of the dying townspeople. His internal workings show that he's selfish and he makes fun of people with the red death by having a masquerade.
ReplyDelete2. 2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself to stop from getting the red death.All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death." P.171 A sharp line is drawn here between a world of life and a world of death. Inside Prospero's castle there's safety, pleasure, and good time(basically, every lust of life). Outside, there's death. Even though the people inside are supposedly protected from death by being in the castle, there's something weird about the image. Ironically, they're trapped inside with death surrounding them. Also the text states: The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous." (pg. 16)
This is the first line of text which leads us to be immediately confronted by the red death. The Red Death is everwhere, and has been for a while. It gives the idea to the reader that Prince Prospero was also made to feel particularly afraid of death, because the Red Death is a horrendous way to die.
3. 3.Prince Prospero invites the knights, jesters, dames, improvisatori for entertainment to his guests.
4. 4. The fete was there to entertain Prince Prospero's guests. The clock represents life ticking, that is why the older people seemed to be afraid, because they are worried that they are dying on the chime, because the chime represents death. In the story, the person with the red mask is Death, or the Red Death. This is in to say how nobody could escape death even with all the money and power in the world, and that life eventually ends no matter what. The rooms were positioned East to West, East being at the beginning and West at the end. East is the direction that the sun rises, and west is where it sets. This represents life and death. It could also represent biblical references, such as the number 7. 7 could mean the seven deadly sins, which Prince Prospero breaks in the story progressively, seven could be the creation theory which is the idea that god created the world in 7 days.
5. 5. The villian is Red Death because he represents Prince Prospero's mortailty. He feels like everything revolves around him, and because he has everlasting money that he can’t die so it also represents his repressed emotions of his thoughts that he can last forever. -Jon