Masque of the Red Death Reflection

The Confliction on the Page In the misfortunate humbug The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe, the main encounter is the Red Death arrives at Prince Prosperos Masque, and kills everyone. At Prince Prosperos ball the guests in attention all partied in a castellated abbey which had seven fashions in which the party was held. During the middle of one of the festivities a strange examine came into the room and the bold energy and hype immediately died down to the point of w present you could here a pin drop on the floor.At this point the red dying has entered the room but nobody cuts it yet, Poe writes, The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to home in the habiliments of the grave. (Poe 87) This shows that the people in attendance do not know it is the red finis yet, until they see the first sign of the Red Deaths movement n the people, which angers the prince. When the prince discovers that it is the red death, he pulls a gummed label from his belt a nd follows the corpselike figure through the rooms to the last unlit room, the one that had drapes of black velvet.The prince attempts to labor the ghoulish figure but his plan is foiled having attained the fellow member of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp cry-and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Price Prospero. (Poe 88) the reader then sees that the prince died due to him being foolish rather than him getting the Red Death disease. The red death then sickened the tout ensemble group and everyone dies. This shows how the Red Death was the main conflict in the story due to the fact that it keeps killing everyone.