Red Death Morality

It is not morally right in any situation to save yourself while simultaneously leaving others to die. The rich, as shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, attempt to put themselves first more often than everyone else, mainly due to available resources. Trying to get oneself to safety is a basic human response, but a good member of society knows it is better in the long run to look out for others, as seen in “Sierra Leone Battles Ebola Outbreak With Three-Day Lockdown”.

Karma always comes to get you. Prince Prospero in “The Masque of the Red Death”, ironically, knows this. One can put themself into the safest possible situation, but when the defining moment arrives, their true colours will show. Prospero encounters this as