A summary of "The mask of the Red death" of Edgar

The mask of the Red death is a great allegorical story that tells the story of a mysterious and terrible, disease that decimated the population of an imaginary country. The symptoms of this terrible disease are headache, dizziness, severe bleeding and red spots on the body and the faces of the victims. This pest kills in about thirty minutes, and therefore the Red stain on a man caused it by the people are rejected. "The"happy"dauntless"ruler of the country, the prosperous Prince, with thousands of healthy noble friends hide in one"Abbey of CIME". This place has enough food, suffering, suffering, while it let her subjects celebration parties.

After five or six months, Prospero chooses, this tracks has a large masquerade ball in the seven rooms of the imperial suite at the West. Instead of one long the Prince Hall Chambers has, sharp curves and large Windows on each side, which dominate the surrounding corridor are arranged. Each room is purple-colored with the first blue who knows second purple, the third green, the fourth Orange, the fifth and the sixth by others. As for the seventh room is completely in black velvet, but the Windows are a deep red. Guests staying away from the seventh room as the light shines through the window of the corridors to create a horrible effect. In this room a clock of ebony there are huge swings of the whose pendulum ominously and Peal was so powerful that anyone with fear stop, until the sound of wind chimes when everyone is nervously continued their actions.

On the day of the party, custom costumes are wild and grotesque, and the State is like a "multitude of dreams" despite failure prevailing entertainment by the clock of ebony. The party dresses as a corpse, including a very convincing mask with the characteristic red spot at its peak, as midnight suggests the sinister twelve chimes and everyone keeps as usual and suddenly looks like a figure. Dressed as red death! This unexpected and frightening intrusion enerva prosperous Prince, who ordered his guards to capture and discredit the "spectral image".

None of the guests or even prosperous have the audacity to take visitors and slides the Red death slowly from the Prince, in the Blue Hall, goes from a room to another goal in the direction of the black space. However angry and ashamed of his cowardice, prosperous through the rooms, he rushes at the edge of that achieved in the last quarter, when it faced the spy and dead drops. Surprise guests drop in the figure still determine only the dismay that there is nothing under the mask and costume. Red death "as a thief in the night" appear one after another, succumb to death and last party Assistant dies, ebony clock stops working "and darkness and decay and the Red death instead of documentary photography all govern."