At the ball, the castle has seven arranged rooms that each has a different color and have all been decorated according to the Prince's taste (Wolfgang 521). These colors start at blue and progress to purple, to green, then orange, to white, next violet and finally to black (Poe 269). ... In each room there is a fire burning behind a colored window that illuminates that certain color throughout the entire space (Poe 269). ... The "masked figure" which is also known as the "Red Death" is the one of the most important characters in the story. ... Prince Prospero, the other main characte...

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He's an ironic character because of his name and being described as wise and wealthy, however he's killed by the Red Death by trying to take it on alone. ... Each room is a different stage of life according to the color. ... The purple room is next and that suggests the beginning of growth. ... When it comes to the seven colored rooms, the path the characters walk in the story is literally and metaphorically the path from life to death....

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In the beginning, Poe uses color as symbolism for different stages of the life of the character Prince Prospero, to establish the theme of the story[ CITATION The64 l 1033 ]. ... Then purple, a combination of red and blue, symbolizing the death of his biological mother when he was very young. ... The colors advance to black, the final color and represents his death. ...

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