The Masque Of The Red Death And Symbolism Of Covid-19 Pandemic

In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allan Poe says this story of aristocrat Prosper,” fortunate and dauntless and sagacious,” who, as those Red Death sweeps his dominios, gathers his closest friends into his magnificent castle, which he so seals off from the outer globe. The prince represents the masked shot at his eccentrically designed hall, the partying is ebullient, until the guests notice that one of their members has created a tasteless laugh. ‘ Shrouded from topo to bottomin the habiliments of the Death,” his hiding that of the body dabbled with people, he has looked as the Red Death. The people, now the mob, turns on and pursues this number, who vanishes, leaving just that shroud- as that revelers, Prince Prospero first among them, come to plague. “ and dark and Decay and that Red Death had illimitable dominion at all.”

As well as The Masque of the Red Death, the corona virus has had some effects of society. As governments and welfare officials worldwide cope with the outbreak of serious critical respiratorysyndrome coronavirus 2, recent developments in the systemof and reactions to lawsuits are happening as part of a swiftly evolving crisis, On February 11, 2020, the official name for the new coranavirus illness: Coronavirus illness 2019. After the sustained of the number of recent cases, on February 13, 2020, China confirmed about 15, 000 current cases and 242 deaths at Hubei province. How important information is relayed to the world within the next stage of the epidemic is important.

Up to now, there has been an existed small data on people with asthma with COVID-19. There has been at least one issue indicating no consequences of COVID-19 on asthma. But, it is crucial to notice that there are some different conaviruses that usually distribute and have cold/flu like symptons. These viruses have been demostrated to have asthma episodes or attempts. Thus, whether COVID-19 may have asthma episodes or attacks remains to be realized. This tramatic event has caused many schools to be closed until further notice and businesses as well, with this being it has enhanced many problems with society one of them being the hoardering of toilet paper and water. Due to that they have limited our resources and established a curfew where one can only be out if it’s worked related or an emergency, if it’s neither of the two they would handout a punishement.

Both these events are extremely similiar for example, in The Masque of the Red Death, the Prince decides to lock the gates to prevent the plague from spreading, like in our society they encourage us to stay indoors for our own well being and of others, but as similiar to the book we dont take precaution.The coronavirus is nowhere near as deadly as the Red Death, but the intent of this analogy is to highlight the actions of highly privileged people in panic circumstances, particularly as regards to safety. The rich created an impression of power in “ The Masque of the Red Death” by entertaining themselves with an array of entertainment, while the poor were left without any means of protection.