1. “The Masque of the Red Death”

2. The Danse Macabre

3. Correct These Sentences
“the masque of the red death” is a allegory.
characters, settings and events have symbolic meanings in a allegory.
1. “The Masque of the Red Death” is an allegory.
2. Characters, settings, and events have symbolic meanings in an allegory.

4. Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
1842
American
Short Story

5. What is a symbol? Something that stands for something else.
What do these stand for?
Ready for some examples from the story?

6. In “The Masque of the Red Death” there are many colored rooms.
Rooms are going east to west - symbolizing the life cycle
sunrise
and
sunset

7. Going from East to West, the rooms are:
Blue =birth
Purple =youth (beginnings of growth)
Green = youth
Orange = adult hood
White = mid-life
Violet = elderly
Black = death
However, Poe’s primary color is *RED* = blood and fear

8. Another symbol in the story is the clock
Another symbol in the story is the clock. Take a guess - What does a clock symbolize?
Passing of time
Being late
Reality
Life ticking away

9. How about a name? Prince Prospero is the protagonist.
What would his name symbolize?
Prosperity
Wealth, Upper-class
Good Health
Mankind's futile attempt to live forever

10. We meet a masked figure. What does a man in a mask symbolize?
Mystery
Criminal
Hero
Death!

11. What is an Allegory?
A type of story in which the characters, settings, and events are an interconnected series of SYMBOLS.
The deeper or symbolic meaning of the story may contain a LESSON ABOUT LIFE.

12. The Masque of the Red Death is an Allegory
Interconnected Symbols represent?
The Life Cycle
The Lesson about life?
Death triumphs over all, rich or poor

13. Ticket out the Door What is an allegory?
Name two symbols Poe uses in this story.
Correct the Misplaced Modifier:
Poe’s story is a story of life and death, making his reader consider mortality.
Fascinated by the horrific, Poe’s stories are full of murder and death.

14. Correct These Sentences
The setting for “the masque of the red death” is prince prosperos abbey.
The abbey has lofty walls, rooms decorated in blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet and black, and castle like towers.
1. The setting for “The Masque of the Red Death” is Prince Prospero’s Abbey.
2. The abbey has lofty walls, colorful rooms, and castle-like towers.

15. Quick Write: Modern Plague Stories
Where is the plague most prominent in modern times?
How is the plague spread?
Is the plague still a real threat?

16. Quick Write: Ebola Scare
Answer these:
How is Ebola spread? Compare this to how the Black Death was spread in medieval Europe.
Why is fear over Ebola more dangerous than the illness itself? How does Prospero react to the fear of the imagined “red death” in Poe’s story?
Keep Considering:
Unit EQ: To what extent are our decisions motivated by fear? How does this question fit into our readings?

19. Plague Advertisement
Draw a quick advertisement for a plague-related product. Something to rid yourself of the plague, plague prevention, etc. Use your imagination!
Picture of product
Slogan
Price
Contact information (pretend)

20. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”
Figurative Language Brush Up – Identify (metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole)
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”
I felt every fibre in my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery
Simile
Then silence, and stillness, night were the universe.
Metaphor
all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades
Perspiration burst from every pore, and stood in cold big beads upon my forehead.
Personification

21. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”
Figurative Language Brush Up – Identify the sound device (alliteration, assonance, consonance, onamatopeia)
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”
HEAR the sledges with the bells
Consonance
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
Onomatopoeia
In a sort of Runic rhyme
Alliteration

22. TOD
Write three sentences about “The Masque of the Red Death” with three vocabulary words.
Excellent sentences will be worth extra points on the weekly test.

23. 1. Why do Prince Prospero and his followers retreat to his palace?
To escape the Red Death Plague

24. Check Up What do the rooms in the Masque of the Red Death symbolize?
What kind of character is Prospero?
What does the Masque of the Red Death symbolize?

25. 2. Explain how the party is constantly disrupted.
Every time the clock strikes off another hour, the orchestra stops playing and the people stop dancing.

26. Inside Outside Wealth Poverty Fantasy Reality Life Death; Destruction
3. Compare life outside the palace with the life of the people Prospero brought inside.
Inside
Outside
Wealth
Poverty
Fantasy
Reality
Life
Death; Destruction
Happiness
Sorrow
Health
Disease/Sickness
Hope
Despair

27. He is prejudice against the poor.
4. What do you learn about Prospero's character from his desire to keep his palace free of the plague?
He is afraid to die.
He is prejudice against the poor.
He thinks he can cheat death. (He thinks he can buy his way out.)

28. 5. What mood or effect is created by the colors and the lighting in the rooms of the ball?
It causes a dream-like effect.
Fantasy

29. 6. Why does the visitor frighten the guests?
Because he suddenly and mysteriously appears out of nowhere
Because he looks like someone with the Red Death Plague
Because he just stalks to and fro and doesn't talk

30. 7. List 6 aspects of how Poe builds suspense in the story:
Description of the plague’s symptoms
Doors welded shut; one couldn't leave even if one wanted to
Dim, pulsing lights from the burning coals
Black room with the red panes
Appearance and behavior of the intruder
Clock constantly stopping the party

31. Processing Create a foldable
On the outside of the flap, state the questions
On the flat side, when you open the flap, answer the question.
On the other side of the flap, draw a picture
On the back answer lower half, “short response” #1 ONLY

32. Vocab Application
Would a dauntless chicken cross a busy highway to get to the other side?
Yes, that chicken would be crazy!
Would a teacher who spoke in monotone be likely to make their class sedate?
Yes, Zzzzzzzz…..
What would an embellished wedding dress look like?
Lots of sequins, beads, ribbons, etc.
Have you ever done anything impetuously?
Probably, but hopefully not too dangerously impetuous.

33. El Dorado Compare/Contrast the two versions Version 1: Version 2:
Tone, purpose, characterization of the knight, characterization of the shadow
Version 1:
Version 2: