Blue room---CALM/TRANQUILITY
Purple room—ROYALTY
Green room---LUCK/ENVY
Orange room ---CAUTION
White room---PURITY/PEACE
Violet room ---FEMININITY
Black room –--EVIL/FEAR/DEATH
Scarlet – DANGER/DESIRE/BLOOD

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BLUE – Birth
PURPLE – Growth
GREEN- Youth
ORANGE- Autumn of life
WHITE-Age (white hair & bones)
VIOLET- Darkness
BLACK- Death
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The Red Death walked from Blue
Room to the Black
Room---it walks the course of life, leading from birth to death.
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Prospero & his followers metaphorically & literally walk the
“course of life to death”

The Clock = The Passing of Life
The Masquerade = Fantasy,
Escape from Reality
Castellated Abbey =
Confinement;
Worldly Power; Threatening

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“like a thief in the night” = a line taken from the Thessalonians 5:4 (referring to last judgment when you least expect it)
Represents the end of the world
Prince & followers (sinners) ignore the inevitable & were “caught unprepared”; indulging in the “pleasures of the world”
Poe may have been trying to warn people ---to be prepared for death and not to act like we will live forever
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all”

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Decide on an OVERALL THEME for your room
You MUST have at least 6 items that specifically symbolize something
You MUST COLOR your room.
Make a “Legend” for your symbols
Your title is the THEME of your room
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You will be graded on: CREATIVITY,
PARTICIPATION, 6 ITEMS meaning/theme
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