Thursday, September 25, 2014

Why do Prince Prospero and his friends lock themselves in a secured castle?

In "The Masque of Red Death" Prince Prospero and his friends lock themselves in a secured castle to avoid becoming in contact with "The Red Death", which is an epidemic that is killing everyone in town.  The disease is described much like consumption, in that the last stages of it, blood will be everywhere, hence the name of the illness.

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