The Masque Of The Red Death By Edgar Allan Poe
No One Can Escape Death
There are only a few certain things in life that everyone must deal with one of them being death. Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Masque of the Red Death” theme is no one can escape death no matter what precautions are taken. Prince Prospero is a cowardice king that abandons his throne to save himself and his followers to enclose themselves in a castle in hope of hiding from death that ravages his kingdom. One man in modern history similar to Prince Prospero is the cult leader Jim Jones. Jones is the leader of the people's temple, a religious cult that believes in radical and racial ideals. He is a mass murderer that convinces his followers that he would protect them, the same was said of Prince Prospero. In Edgar …show more content…
One can use caution to prolong the eventual act of death, but none can stop the circle of life. At the end of the story the narrator states, “and darkness and decay and the red death held illimitable dominion over all” (Poe 89). Death has power over all things in nature. Jones and Prospero hid from death, but it can come in many different forms, but regardless it is the ruler of all things. Jones states, "Because we are not committing suicide, it's a revolutionary act, we can't go back they won't leave us alone they're now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen and there's no way no way we can survive ““FBI”. The place he promises that would serve to protect them from the outside world he causes the mass murder or mass suicide of his followers, he follows suit and shoots and kills himself. No one is impervious to death.
Jim Jones the mass murder shares many skills of leadership and hides in compounds in which they meet their deaths as the same goes for Edgar Allan Poe's Prince Prospero from, "The Masque of the Red Death". Jones uses the promise of reaching holiness through following him and his new found religion, but followers of Prospero are told if one follows him they will reach safety. They both used fortified strongholds to hide from the outside world. The place that they were held up in would eventually aid in their deaths. There are only a few certain things in life that everyone must deal with one of them being …show more content…
“The Masque of the Red Death.” Glencoe Literature The Reader’s Choice-Course 5. Ed. Jeffery D. Wilhelm. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 84- 89. Print.
Judge, John. "The Black Hole of Guyana--The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, by John Judge, 1985." The Black Hole of Guyana--The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, by John Judge, 1985. 1985. Mon. 12 Oct. 2015.
"FBI Audiotape Project." Alternative Considerations of Jonestown Peoples Temple. Ed. Rikke Wettendorff. Web. 13 Oct.
There are only a few certain things in life that everyone must deal with one of them being death. Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Masque of the Red Death” theme is no one can escape death no matter what precautions are taken. Prince Prospero is a cowardice king that abandons his throne to save himself and his followers to enclose themselves in a castle in hope of hiding from death that ravages his kingdom. One man in modern history similar to Prince Prospero is the cult leader Jim Jones. Jones is the leader of the people's temple, a religious cult that believes in radical and racial ideals. He is a mass murderer that convinces his followers that he would protect them, the same was said of Prince Prospero. In Edgar …show more content…
One can use caution to prolong the eventual act of death, but none can stop the circle of life. At the end of the story the narrator states, “and darkness and decay and the red death held illimitable dominion over all” (Poe 89). Death has power over all things in nature. Jones and Prospero hid from death, but it can come in many different forms, but regardless it is the ruler of all things. Jones states, "Because we are not committing suicide, it's a revolutionary act, we can't go back they won't leave us alone they're now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen and there's no way no way we can survive ““FBI”. The place he promises that would serve to protect them from the outside world he causes the mass murder or mass suicide of his followers, he follows suit and shoots and kills himself. No one is impervious to death.
Jim Jones the mass murder shares many skills of leadership and hides in compounds in which they meet their deaths as the same goes for Edgar Allan Poe's Prince Prospero from, "The Masque of the Red Death". Jones uses the promise of reaching holiness through following him and his new found religion, but followers of Prospero are told if one follows him they will reach safety. They both used fortified strongholds to hide from the outside world. The place that they were held up in would eventually aid in their deaths. There are only a few certain things in life that everyone must deal with one of them being …show more content…
“The Masque of the Red Death.” Glencoe Literature The Reader’s Choice-Course 5. Ed. Jeffery D. Wilhelm. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 84- 89. Print.
Judge, John. "The Black Hole of Guyana--The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, by John Judge, 1985." The Black Hole of Guyana--The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, by John Judge, 1985. 1985. Mon. 12 Oct. 2015.
"FBI Audiotape Project." Alternative Considerations of Jonestown Peoples Temple. Ed. Rikke Wettendorff. Web. 13 Oct.