nce again, the narrator s life is in menace. Fortunately, the narrator is saved at the last minute, but the terror and the fear he feels during that period seems more terrific than death. In fact, Poe shows us compare to the affliction the narrator suffers in the pit, death becomes a relief. In some situation, death is not the most terrible thing a human can have, in the opposite; death can help us leave from the pain. In the second story, The Masque of the Red Death, Poe depicts a completely opposite situation. Death, in this case, becomes an end. First of all, the princes name, Prospero, means happiness and prosperity and this are what the prince has in his life. He chooses to escape when there has a plague. Instead of helping his people, he leaves with his prosperity and continues his luxurious life. It shows clearly his selfishness and in the reality, it is the reason why he has to be punished and has to die. The fires in each of the suite rooms represent in fact death. a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire that projected its ray through tinted glass.But in the western of black chamber, the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood tinted panes .bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all.(58) This description produces a mysterious atmosphere in the west in contrast to those chambers at east. This can relate to the pattern of the suns movement. The sunrise in the east represents new life of a day. At the other hand, the sunset in the west means the end of a day and darkness. Poe, in his story, always uses darkness to visualize death, as in the Pit and the Pendulum.Moreover, the dcor of the black chamber is in fact a symbol of death. As Poe describes, The panes here were scarlet- a deep blood color.(58) The relationship between blood and death is an essential aspect because Poe wants the reader to have a visual image of the blood flowing down the walls as a form of death. This is an ...
