Comparing Allegory in Masque (Mask) of the Red Death and Dr Heideggers Experiment :: comparison compare contrast essays

Allegory in Masque of the reddened Death and Dr Heideggers Experiment     Edgar Allan Poes opus style is based on the supernatural and the unknown. In The Masque of the Red Death, Prince Prospero invites the revelers to come to the castle to party until the danger of pestilence is gone. The party was break up by an intruder who was dressed in all black (like the puritanical Reaper) and was associated with the plague of the red death. The reaper killed everyone one by one in the end. The Masque of the Red Death is an allegory. An allegory is symbols that are presented in the figment that have two levels of meaning. An example can be the clock in the story. The clock t honest-to-goodness time and represented the time they had left before they grumbled. at that place were seven put ups that were different colors, and the last chamber was black, which was the last chamber that represented death. I think the seven rooms symbolized the days until you die and th e clock symbolized the time until you died.   Dr. Heidegger brings over four of his friends to try an experiment on them in the story, Dr Heideggers Experiment. There were triplet men and one woman named widow woman Wycherly. They were all solemn people who had been unfortunate in life history. In the past, the three men used to fight over the widow to the point of almost killing each other. Dr. Heidegger had a mysterious folio volume which was tell to be magical (supernatural). He pulls out an old rose from it and turns it screen to life by putting it in water called the Fountain of Youth. His friends couldnt take that a rose was brought back to life and passed it off as a hoax. So, Dr. Heidegger gave them all a glass of the Fountain of Youth to make them moot its powers. After all of them took a gulp they were turned young again. The old people became so happy and cheerful and so full of life again like they once were in their prime. They were all happy and bound and soon it turned into a riot where they started fighting over widow Wycherly again, causing them to spill the Fountain of Youth all over the floor.