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Parents and Birthplace C. Education II. Adult life, Jobs, and Writings A. Military Career B. Professions C. Works D. Death III. Masque of the Red Death A. Characters 1. Red Death 2. Prince Prosperro 3. Friends B. Plot 1. Background of story. C. Symbolism 1. The 7 Rooms a. Colors of the Rooms 2. Clock a. Effect on Players D. Deep meaning of story. IV. Conclusion A. Important points and accomplishments. V. Works cited LIFE OF POE Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 18O9 in Boston Mass. He was orphaned at the age of three and was then raised by John and Francis Allan in 1811 but unofficially adopted. John Allan was a wealthy buisnessman from Richmond Virginia, but sadly enough he didn't approve of Edgar's literary stridings (we'll get into that later). ( ) Edgar was an excellent athelete and a briliant student at Manor House School in Stoke Newington, England between the years 1815 and 1820, but, as I said before, his guardian didn't approve of his literary ambitions and decided to send him to University of Virginia in 1826. Poe accumulated vast gambling debts there and left because of it. After the University of Virginia, Poe went into the armed services starting with West Point. He joined West Point in 183O and made well for himself. The main reason that he went into West Point was to make peace with his adoptive parents, but to no avail. He had himself purposefully expelled from West Point when he learned that reconsiliations with his adoptive parents was basically an impossibility. The Allans pushed him out of the family after the fiasco and made him live out in the street. ( ) Poe went to live with one of his poor aunts and married her daughter, Virginia Clemm. They were married on May 16, 1836, but she died only eleven years later in 1847. She died at the age of 25 from turberculosis (which means that she was only fourteen when he married her) which served only to intensify Poe's dark and moody feelings towards everything. ( ) Poe himself died on a Baltimore street walk on October 7th, 1849 due to a brain lesion complication. It was by this time that he was starting to show signs of insanity. His burial site is in the Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard in Baltimore, Maryland. ( ) CAREER OF POE Poe has served many jobs in his life, including novelist, critic, short story writer, poet and has had a military career. His military career started before his enrollment at West Point with his joining into the US Army under the psuedonym of Edgar A Perry in 1827. He was promoted to Regimental Seargant Major in 1829 and was discharged from duty in 1829. He then went into West Point in 183O and purposfully had himself expelled two years later due to complications with his adoptive parents. ( ) Poe's first literary career was when he bacame a staff member of Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia in 1835. He was promoted to Assistant Editor of the same paper in 1836. He finally left that job in 1837 and did not work for two years. In 1839 he was the Co-Editor of Burlington Gentleman's Magazine in Philedelphia until 184O. Literary Editor of Grahm's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine was his job between the years of 1841 and 1842, truely facenating. For one year he was a Staff Member of Evening Mirror in New York City, New York in 1845. His last real job was as Owner and Editor of the Broadway Journal between the years of 1845 and 1846. ( ) Even though he made many more pieces than this, he was only given awards for two of his pieces. They include a first prize in fiction for Ms. Found in a Bottle in 1833 and another first prize in ficion for The Gold Bug ten years later in 1843. ( ) His other works include such beauties as Alone, Mesmeric Revelation, William Wilson, The Oval Portrait, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Bells, The Premature Burial, and The Masque of the Red Death. ( ) MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH The Masque of the Red Death is set in the later Middle Ages during the Plague. The location is somewhere in Eastern Europe inside of one Prince Prospero's castle during a party. The Prince has invited around only one thousand of his closest friends to join him in an around the clock party that is held in seven symbolic and differently colored rooms. The point of the party is to avoid the 'Red Death' that is ravaging the countryside. In the end, the walls of the castle turn out to be no match for the power of the 'Red Death'. The colors of the rooms are used to symbolize the seven stages of life. The first room is colored blue to symbolize birth and innocence. The second room was bathed in purple which would just happen to symbolize the earlier years of life. Green was the color of the third room which symbolized growth and the gathering of knowledge. The fourth room was encased in orange to symbolize the fall of life in to the middle ages. Fifthly, the white room was to symbolize old age and wisedom. The sixth room in this procession was clad in violet to show the twilight just before death. Lastly, black was the identification color of the seventh room which symbolized death and the end. A final piece of symbolizm would be the Ebony clock in the seventh room. This lovely work of craftsmanship clanged on the hour, but whenever it did so the band that was playing the music would stop playing the music and would force the dancers to do likewise. As if in some strange fit of ESP, none of the 'inmates' went into the black room towards the end of the day. It was if they knew that eventually the 'Red Death' would take over no matter what, it was just time that stood in the way. So it was, time was all that they had between them and the 'Red Death' for when the clock struck midnight a stranger masked appeared. What made him different from the others was that he wasn't dressed in fanciful clothing, but in rags soaked in blood. The Prince, being the complete dip that he was, was initially shocked by the appearance of this strange guest and then angered. He charged at the masked stranger shouting and yelling and generally throwing a general hissy fit about everything the stranger was. The stranger stood there, until suddenly he started taking measured steps towards the Prince. This so scared the Prince that he ran from all the way from the blue room straight to the violet. It was in the violet room that he drew out his daggar and turned at the stranger. He suddenly dropped the daggar and promptly died in the typical plague ridden way. After seeing the Prince fall at the feet of the stranger, all of the partiers lunged at the Stranger and each died one by one. The meaning, or moral if you will, of this story is that no matter what you try to do, reality will allways find you. So there. ( ) CONCLUSION Poe wasn't really noticed for any of his works other than the two I mentioned previously. It took many years before anyone really really awknowledged his works in any way shape or form. WORKS CITED Edgar Allan Poe, in a review of "Tales," in Essays and Reviews: Reviews of American Authors and American Literature, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 868-73. Charles Baudelaire, "Critical Miscellany: Preface to `The Raven'," in his Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers, edited and translated by Lois Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., Bald Eagle Press, 1952, pp. 155-57. Lewis Edwards Gates, "Edgar Allan Poe," in his Studies and Appreciations, 1900. Reprint by Books for Libraries Press, 1970, pp. 110-28. H. P. Lovecraft, "Edgar Allan Poe," in his Supernatural Horror in Literature, Ben Abramson Publisher, 1945, pp. 52-9. Patrick F. Quinn, "Four Views of Edgar Poe," in Jahrbuch Fur Amerikastudien, Vol. 5, 1960, pp. 128-46. Floyd Stovall, in an introduction to The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Floyd Stovall, The University Press of Virginia, 1965, pp. xv-xxxvii. Kenneth Graham, in an introduction to Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1967, pp. vii-xxii. Bettina L. Knapp, in her Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984, 226 p. ]=-------------------------------------------------------------------------=[ That's it for the paper, hope you enjoyed it. 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