to the deep seclusion of one of his abbeys. The building was built by the Prince, is filled with his exotic ornaments, and then sealed from the outside world by a huge wall with iron gates. Inside the building are dancers, musicians, and everything needed in order to stay secluded until the plague runs its course. After six months of seclusion, the Prince decides to hold a masked ball in a suite with seven rooms. Each room is decorated in a single color with the last in red. Within this room is a huge clock that strikes the hour with a heavy clang. At the stroke of midnight, a guest is seen in a costume of the red death itself and this frightens the other guests. The Prince is angered at what he believes to be a practical joke and orders the stranger seized and hung from the battlements. Prince Prospero follows the stranger into the red chamber and it is there that he falls dead at the feet of the stranger. The others capture the unknown person in the costume only to find to their horror that there is no living form in the costume. One by one they die until no one else remains.In this story, Edgar portrays that death is king of all. Just because the sleet few had escaped the plague the first time did not mean they could fully escape it. He tries to explain that no one can run from death. His viewpoint on this could greatly be due to the death of his mother and his feeling of misery. Since he never fully felt accepted by his foster father, he could have blamed death for that misery in his life.Another work is a poem entitled Alone. This poem directly points out Edgars thoughts on his life. He describes his feeling with phrases such as And all I loved, I loved alone and From childhoods hour I have not been, As Others where; I have not seen. In this poem he describes his loneliness and his feelings of being alone. He explains how all his life he has felt different and known that he was not the same as others. He tells of how his ...
