I would say the darkest story I have read would be The Masque of Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about how a fatal disease struck a country. Prince Prospero doesn’t show care about the poor dying subjects. He avoids whats going on the outside by throwing a masquerade in his castle with his friends. He has a seven rooms that are set up with different colors: blue‚ purple‚ orange‚ violet‚ white‚ and black. The black room has dark blood windows‚ black walls and a dark clock which chimes every
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The Masque of the Red Death is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. A horrible disease ravaged a kingdom and killed half of the country. The disease’s effects are gruesome to say the least. The effects of the disease were as follows: sudden dizziness‚ sharp pains‚ bleeding from the pores and finally death. All of this took place within 30 minutes‚ but it wasn’t a fast or painless 30 minutes. While this disease was destroying the kingdom the prince‚ Prospero was his name‚ locked himself and
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of the Red Death starts with Prince Prospero at his masquerade ball. The rising action occurs with introduction of the guests and the walk through of the seven rooms of life’s stages. The clock strikes and an secret guest appears causing the climax of the story. Prince Prospero chases the secret guest confronting him and meets his demise. The falling action occurs when the guests corner the secret guest and unmask him. The guests unmask the guest and realize there is nothing there. It is Red Death
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with consequences can be attributed to karma. Washington Irving‚ Stephen Vincent Benet‚ and Edgar Allen Poe demonstrate these ideas of karma in their respective books‚ The Devil and Tom Walker‚ The Devil and Daniel Webster‚ and The Masque of the Red Death. Romantics value intuition and feeling in order to reach self realization in contrast to rationalists’ value of reason and goods to create a better life. In romantics eyes self realization
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“The Masque of the Red Death” “The Masque of the Red Death” is an allegory that has many morals of life. In this story‚ the abbey‚ the series of seven rooms‚ and the clock each symbolize something different. The setting of “The Masque of the Red Death” takes place in Europe during the Middle Ages. In this time period‚ people were dying left and right from the plague. So‚ Poe interpreted his outlook on life through this story. The abbey seems‚ to me‚ as hope and confinement. It gives representation
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Everyone know we born and later we die. But between them there is more. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe represent the Seven Stages of Life with seven rooms. The first room is the blue room. It represents the birth. The blue room is furthest to the east “in blue-and vividly blue were its windows” (76). Usually is the east the direction associated with “beginning”‚ and birth‚ because the sun rises in the east. After the birth started the time to growth up. That’s way the purple room
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CASE # 1 THE PERILS OF TEXTING 1. Which of the five moral dimensions on the information system identified in this text is involved in this case? In my opinion in this case we can see many things involved‚ one of them is the Information rights and obligations‚ because it is true that the people have many rights and freedom for doing what they want‚ but it is true also that all of us have the obligations to keep control about ourselves while we are driving and expose others life; and the obligation
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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
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Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks
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The Planet in Peril Good Afternoon‚ My name is Ashley and I will be speaking on our planet and the dangers that we are facing everyday and have no clue about it. Our planet is in major crises economically and physically. Everyday we hear more bad news about our planet. Reports tell us that wildlife and forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Newscasts give the latest word on how quickly earth is losing its protective shield and warming up. Newspapers grieve over the pollution of our air
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