The Masque of the Red Death--Week of September 13th
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?
3. Prince Prospero invities a thousand of his friends(members from the knights and dames of his courts) to his great fete. "...He summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court...that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificance." (Athena Baker.)
ReplyDelete4. Prince Prospero's great fete
4. Prince Prospero's great fete is very lively, decorative, and happy overall. " ...It was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for color and effects..."(page 258, paragraph two.) As for his seven apartments, they were so "irrgularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at each turn of a novel effect."(page 257, paragraph two.)The first one was blue and laveshily decorated, the second apartment was purple and decorated with purple lavish ornaments and tapestries, the third apartment was green colored(along with its decorations), the fouth orange colored, the fifth white colored, the sixth violet colored, and the seventh one was was very dark with black velvet colored tapestries, red panes for the windows, and no golden decorations or lamp/candle lights to light the room. It also has a gigantic wooden clock and a fireplace. (Athena Baker.)
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily plans to isolate himself because he does not want get the disease going on around his country(the disease which turns a person's face turn red, therefore making the person faceless and nameless.) So instead he sort of "traps" the disease by inviting all of his friends(who happen to be couriters) to a masquerade ball/fete." The couriters, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of dispair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid difiance to contagion...The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori..."(page 257 paragraph 2 of whole short story.)-Athena Baker.
ReplyDelete2. he does it so he will not get the the red death. (Alex Aldrich)
ReplyDelete1. he is a very starnge guy because he really does not care about what is going on out side of his home all he cares about is what is going on in his life. (Alex Aldrich)
ReplyDelete3. All his Knights and Danes
ReplyDelete5. The villian in the story is the princes moralaty. He is trying to hide the fact that he is going to die. (Alex Aldrich)
ReplyDelete5. The villian in the story is the Red Death himself. He represents the "repressed emotions" of the Prince by since the Prince himself is selfish, wealthy, and thinks of himself as "immortal", the Red Death to the prince represents the Prince's mortality. " In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers..."(page 257, first paragraph.)Usually when a person full of great wealth has a lot of power, he or she usually tends to forget that like all the other people in the world, he or she can still pass away from the face of the Earth forever. " He(the Prince) bore a loft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity to within three or four feet of the retreating figure...turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp cry...instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero...And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a theif in the night.And one by one dropped the revellers...and died each in the despairing posture of his fall."(page 260, last two paragraphs.) The dagger in the story happens to symbolize the Prince's power. However knowing that the Prince's power does not protect him against the Red Death, the Prince eventually dies while trying to chase the Red Death out from his palace.(Athena Baker.)
ReplyDelete1. Prince Prospero is selfish, very wealthy, and believes that he is immortal(usually when a person is very wealthy and has a lot of power, he or she tends to forget the fact that like every other human on Earth, he or she can still be able to perish away from the face of the Earth. This is known as a person's mortality.) He also has a very twisted sense of humor. " But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depoulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends...and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in."(page 257, paragraph one.) Even though there was a plague going on outside his palace, the Prince's only response to this is to have a wall built between his palace and the rest of his country and simply invite all of the knights and dames of his court to a party in order to "taunt" the Red Death. "...while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the prince entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence." (page 257, second paragraph.) (Athena Baker.)
ReplyDelete3. The quote came from page 256,paragraph two.(Athena Baker.)
ReplyDeleteMasque of the Red Death (Avery Dargie, period 3, Section 2, 9/16/2010)
ReplyDelete1. Describe the internal and external workings of the Protagonist (Prince Prospero).
In the prince's external workings he seemed to be a seemily happy male, but one who portrade in his body language as being immortal and not phased by the Red Death (plague) that struck his whole kingdom with vast destruction. On the inside of his workings he was a scared man because he knew that he, just as everyone else in his kingdom, had to face mortality. He didn't like that their was this "great equalizer," of the world, so he hosted a party where he invited thousands of his closets friends to all wear red mask to mock the Red Death. (Avery Dargie)
2. Why does Prince Prospero voluntarily isolate himself?
The Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself from the kingdom that he runs because he knows that he is just as vulnerable to this plague as the common man. The reason, though, that he stays away from everyone is because he doesn't want to face his mortality that he believes that if he stays away from all of the people affected with the plague that he himself will not come into contact with it and stay (as he thinks) "immortal." (Avery Dargie)
3. Who does Prince Prospero invite to his great fete?
The Prince Prospero invites a thousand of his knights and friends from the kingdom. No common man was invited to come because they were not worthy of his presence or they may bring the Red Death along with them. (Avery Dargie)
4. Describe Prince Prospero's great fete and the physical description of each of the seven apartments (chambers).
The Prince's great fete was a giant party with a thousand friends from around the kingdom. The party was in seven chambers in his abbey. The blue, which was the first room, symbolized youth of the party and in the youth of life everyone feels greatly immortal. The next chamber was a purple that showed the dawn of love; a boy being blue and a girl being pink who are able to fall in love for the first time. The third chamber was a beautiful green that enveloped a nature feel because life was just being discovered; seeing what the open outdoors held for the beginning to age youth held. The fourth chamber was a beautiful orange that showed that the night was beginning to come but not there yet, such as a mid-life time period that kept people living with jut realizing how actually vulnerable they really are. The white room was the ageing process; as the ageing process begins hair turns white and the bones begin to grow weak and the people truly see their vulnerability to the own mortality. The sixth chamber was a violet that was losing the life, as when someone is losing breath in their body. When they hit a point of a lot of breath their face will turn purple. The seventh and final chamber was a black to show the end. The mortality. Death. (Avery Dargie)
5. Who is the villian and how does he represent the "repressed emotions" of Prince Prospero?
The villain is the Red Death, but the Red Death is actually the Prince Prospero as if he is the reason to his own mortality. The Red Death is Prince Prospero's "repressed emotions," because his fear of the "great equalizer," or his mortality is something that all his money and power will not be able to save him from reaching that black room and meeting his demise in the future. (Avery Dargie)
1. Prince Prospero is depicted as a selfish person with a strange sense of humor. I consider him selfish because he disregards what is happening outside of his "castellated abbey" (death) and choses to protect only 1000 of his knights and nobles. I know that he has a twisted sense of humor because he throws a masquerade; it’s ironic because when you catch the red death your face turns completely red so in a way he is mocking it. The reader can from his name (Prospero) he is a wealthy prince and when people are very wealthy and have a lot of power they tend to think that they are invincible and better than everyone else.
ReplyDelete2.He isolates himself because he does not want to catch the plague and also because he knows with everyone outside dying, the people inside will have to live under his rule and believe what he believes in. He plans to lock them inside the abbey and "weld the bolts" so that no one will be able to leave or enter, this way the Red Death has no way in.
3. Prince Prospero invites everyone inside of the abbey, but indirectly invites the Red Death. The reader will notice that he is taunting the Red Death, not only does he throw a party, but he throws a masquerade.
4. The great fete is described as "...a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence." and "...a voluptuous scene". It was held in a heavily decorated and colored suite of seven rooms which went from east to west. Each room was painted a different color and represented something different. From east to west the colors were like this: Blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet and black. The first few colors are said to represent youth and the beginning and the colors at the end are said to symbolize death and the end. The black chamber also had an "ebony clock" inside of it, whenever the clock would strike the young change from being giddy to pale, and the old wipe their brows in confusion. The clock could represent the people running out of time and that eventually, everyone meets their demise.
5. The Red Death is the villain in this story. Prospero thinks he is invincible, immortal & better than everyone else. The Red Death shows him that he will die just like every other person in the room. “When the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box”.
(Cypress Austin)
4. When I meant by wooden clock, I meant by ebony wooden clock which symbolizes time and life and how valuable it is to us.(Athena Baker.)
ReplyDelete1. Prince Prospero is selfish, very wealthy, and a bit of a fool/eccentric. " The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hidious...This was an extensive and magnificant structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in...The abbey was amply provisioned. With such percautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external would could take care of itself."(pages 256-257, paragraphs one to two.) Prince Prospero thinks that an iron gate can keep him away from the Red Death when in actuality it can't. Also, " There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be 'sure' that he was not."(page 258, paragraph two.)
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself because he wants to do nothing but enjoy himself and his life. " But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke were particuliar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects...He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers..."(page 258, paragraphs two-three.)
3. Prince Prospero invites to his kingdom all of the knights and dames of his court that he is friends with."...he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court,and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castelated abbeys."(page 256, paragraph two.)
4. Prince Prosper's great fete is very lavishely decorated and filled with a lot of entertainment. " There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine."(page 257, paragraph two.)As for his seven chambers, the first five chambers were of bright colors(blue, purple, green, orange, and white) while the last two were darker colors(violet and black.) The first six chambers were all filled with lavished decorations."That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue-and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, and so were the casements.The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet."(page 257, paragraph four.) However as for the black chamber, it did had some red it in(only for its window panes.) So the black chamber had very few decorations." But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color. Now in no one of the seven chambers was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ordaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof...It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony."(pages 257-258. Paragraphs four-five.)
5. The Red Death is still considered the villain. However he represents the Prince's repressed emotions also by intruding the Prince's party and showing him sort of the face of death." The figure was tall gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat...His vesture was dabbled in 'blood'-and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror. "(page 259, paragraph nine.)(Athena Baker.)
1. Prince Prospero is not only selfish and very wealthy. He also has a twisted sense of humor and does not care about the "outside world." So long as he is safe and comfortable. " The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country...In the meantime it was folly to grieve...He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great 'fete;' and it was his own guiding taste had given character to the masqueraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm..."(pages 256-258, paragraphs one to seven.) While the plague was going on, Prince Prospero decided to throw a masquerade party in order to make fun of the Red Death.
ReplyDelete2. Prince Prospero voluntarily isolates himself because he does not want to catch the Red Death and risk dying. Also Prince Prospero is trying to show how powerful and "immortal" he is if he tried to stay away from the Red Death as much as possible." With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure...All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death."(page 257, paragraph two.) The party the prince had thrown represents the Prince superior over the Red Death (for the time being.)
3. Prince Prospero invites to his great fete all the knights and dames of his court (whom he knew did not catch the Red Death.) They are also known as the revelers. “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys."(page 256, paragraph two.)
(Athena Baker.)(Part of final answer.)
4. Prince Prospero's great fete is very joyful, lavishly decorated, and filled with lots of entertainment(as well as some wine.)" There were buffoons, there were improvisatory, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was beauty, there was wine...It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade...There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. There were delirious fancies such as the madmen fashions. There was much of the beautiful, much of the wantons..."(pages 257-258. Paragraphs two-seven.) As for his seven chambers, As for his seven chambers, the first five chambers were of bright colors (blue, purple, green, orange, and white) while the last two were darker colors (violet and black.) The first six chambers were all filled with lavished decorations."That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue-and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet."(page 257, paragraph four.) However as for the black chamber, it did had some red it in (only for its window panes.) So the black chamber had very few decorations." But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color. Now in no one of the seven chambers was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof...It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony."(pages 257-258. Paragraphs four-five.) The lighter chambers (especially the blue one) represent youth while the darker ones represent death and human mortality.
ReplyDelete5. The Red Death is still considered the true villain in the story(even though from some of the suffering villagers' perspectives, they think of Prince Prospero as a villain since he did not try and help stop the plague.) He represents the repressed emotions of Prince Prospero by intruding the Prince's party and showing him sort of the face of death. So to the Prince, the Red Death represents the Prince's own mortality. “He(the Prince) bore a loft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity to within three or four feet of the retreating figure...turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp cry...instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero...And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers...and died each in the despairing posture of his fall."(page 260, last two paragraphs.) The dagger in the story happens to symbolize the Prince's power. However knowing that the Prince's power does not protect him against the Red Death, the Prince eventually dies while trying to chase the Red Death out from his palace. (Athena Baker.)(Part two of final answer.)
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