Core 6 MoRD Notes & Research

The Masque of the red death is set during the time of the red death. During that time the prince has a big masquerade party in the creepy rooms that have a specific color one is green one is glue and one is red. No one goes in the red room because there is creepy grandfather clock and every hour is rings and every body stops dancing but when the ring  stops the start dancing again. When the clock strikes 12 every body dies.

Setting: Time and place

Atmosphere: The mood of the story

Images: When the author is descriptive    

• Who was Edgar Allan Poe?  What genre of writing did he mostly work in?
• Research the theme of MoRD; what point was Poe trying to make?  What's the message?
• Post a summary of your findings on the blog titled "Core # MoRD Context"

Edgar Allen Poe was an American poet, literary critic, editor, and author. He is best known for his mystery stories. He is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre and the emerging of the genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living by writing alone, and that lead to a financially difficult life and career.  

He mostly worked in the Gothic genre, because this appeased the public. his most recurring theme is on questions of death.  

The point that Poe was trying to make was that you can't escape from death.

 The fact that the rooms were arranged from east to west, from sunrise to sunset, and, essentially, from life to death, is extremely symbolic. At midnight, the point at which there is no sunlight, and no life, the Red Death appeared. He traveled from east to west, and when he got to the very end, again, at midnight, the Death began, and Prince Prospero was killed. The theme of the story was fear- from the very first sentence to the final words ( pun intended ) of the story, the reader has a growing sense of fear. Every time the clock strikes, the party-goers are also frozen.