The Masque of the Red Death
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The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
Observed surface forms (3)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Red Death | 0 | 1 |
| The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) | 0 | 1 |
| the Red Death figure | 0 | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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allegory → short story → |
| adaptedAs |
The Masque of the Red Death
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) → various stage adaptations → |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe → |
| centralCharacter | Prince Prospero → |
| centralMotif |
Red Death plague
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clock → masquerade ball → seven colored rooms → |
| climax | revelation of the Red Death at the masquerade → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| ending | death of all revelers → |
| firstPublishedIn | Graham's Magazine → |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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allegorical fiction → horror fiction → |
| hasCharacter |
Prince Prospero
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nobles at the abbey → The Masque of the Red Death self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
the Red Death figure
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| includedIn | collections of Edgar Allan Poe's tales → |
| literaryForm | prose → |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism → |
| literarySubgenre |
Gothic literature
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surface form:
Dark Romanticism
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| narrativePerspective | third-person narration → |
| narrativeTimeSpan | several months of the plague → |
| notableLine | "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." → |
| originalLanguage | English → |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Philadelphia → |
| publicationYear | 1842 → |
| setting |
Prince Prospero's abbey
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medieval-like unspecified country → |
| structure | single continuous narrative → |
| symbol |
The Masque of the Red Death
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Red Death
ebony clock → masked figure → seven rooms → |
| theme |
decadence and corruption of the aristocracy
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futility of wealth against death → human denial of death → inevitability of death → isolation and escapism → mortality → |
| tone |
foreboding
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macabre → |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
the Red Death figure
subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe
this entity surface form:
Red Death