The Mood Of The Red Death Analysis

One of the main contributions the elaborate setting provides to the theme of the story is that it helps set the atmosphere and mood. Firstly, they’re in a castellated abbey that is completely cut-off from the world. Not only can no one get in, but no one can get out. They are not just protecting themselves from the outdoors, they’re trapping themselves inside. That sense of confinement is threatening on it’s own. If anything was to happen, there would be no way out (as we can see from the Red Death outbreak). In the text, Poe describes their seclusion when describing the castellated abbey, “A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, 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 despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned” (Poe, 1). In this description, Poe describes how they barricaded themselves in, also
The colour scheme of the last room in particular is eery in the least. The black on black is not only unusual but creepy and attention grabbing. You can tell as soon as he describes 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 color.” You know something unsettling is about to begin. Black creates a menacing, cold and heavy feeling to the human body; adding the red tint contributes feelings of aggression. The cooperation of these 2 colours together gives an incredibly unsettling and scary effect. These effects of the colour contribute to the creepy mood by instilling the creepy feelings into you as you visualize the