A journey through Death’s dark kingdom: The Masque of the Red Death

by Symeon J. Thompson The desire to escape death, or to master it, is understandable. In Boccaccio’s Decameron, the nobility seal themselves away to avoid the plague, telling stories to amuse themselves. For Edgar Allan Poe this self-isolation takes on a darker hue. In The Masque of the Red Death, the ruler, the “sagacious” Prince…