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Gothic Practice 1 pager ( 2 quotes)

Gothic Practice 1 pager ( 2 quotes)

    I agree that ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ is a dream like fantasy, that it has serious meaning that applies to the real world. “The Masque of the Red Death”  was based on the black death (The plague) back in the mid-14th century. One, it had a person portraying death itself, like in the story they said, “The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat.” (Poe,3-4). So the reasoning for this piece of evidence is that the Uninvited guest came at midnight wearing a death mask, and resembled death itself. Two , at the ending it was talking about now they know and acknowledged death so here is what it said, “And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” (Poe, 5) The reasoning for this piece of evidence is that  the Red Death was now acknowledged and known to the people that might be alive still.

Hawthorne uses his guest in his short story “Dr. Heideggerś Experiment” to portray human vices. How the four guest portrays in the story is, “Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by frantic speculation, and was no little better that a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout and divers other torments of the soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at  least had been so, till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous. As for the Widow Wycherley, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her. ” 

(Hawthorne, 1) Each vices are 1. Greedy, 2. Sinful,3. Duggy, 4. Vanity, the reader can identify what the guest represent by seeing how the are at the very beginning of the story of what was happening when they were young. The guest also did not learn their lesson when they got to be young again. Like what it said, “But the doctorś friends had taught no such lesson to themselves. They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night from the Fountain of Youth.” (Hawthorne, 7) The were warned to not do something they regret back then to not do it again but they still did. They are now looking for the fountain of Youth that does not exist.

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