First 6 Rooms example essay topic

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The Masque Of Red Death. A virus had come. It killed all that it touched. No one could survive, the red death.

Nothing had ever been like it. Sharp pain dizziness and bleeding at the pores where its signs. When prince Prospero's town was half dead he called on 'a thousand hale and light hearted friends among the knights and dames of his court. ' He called them into a castle. Guarded with a metal gate.

They stayed there for 6 months, Eluding the 'red death. ' They had every thing they need there. Entertainment, food and all other things needed to survive. It was at the end of the 5th or 6th month that he called for a masked ball or 'of the most unusual magnificence. ' Abstract art filled the room with beauty. The masque was held in a suite with 7 rooms.

The rooms were most curios with turns at every corner and gothic windows. The colors of each room varied. The 7th chamber was all black. The only thing different about this room was that the windows did not match with every thing else. The pains where blood red, there was no light of any kind. In there stood giant ebony clock 'whose pendulum swung with a dull heavy activities clang.

' All activities ceased with the sound of each hour. Everything stooped as if dead. ' But when the echoes had full ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly... ' ; The first 6 rooms crowed unlike the 7th, until the clock struck midnight.

Everything ceased like before until the last echo of the clock sounded. Many people became aware of the masked figure. 'There arose a length from the whole company. ' First surprise then horror to this figure.

When the eyes of Prince Prospero saw him he did not know what to do. '; Who dares'; he said. ' ; Unmask him he ordered. ' Prince Proostro with a drawn dagger rushed at the man. They entered the 7th chamber. the dagger dropped to the floor with the prince. ' ; then a throng of revelers at once threw them selves into the black room. ' They gasped in horror as they found their prince.

One by one the revelers died. With there death died the ebony clock.