HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! How dose Edger Allen Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death" an example of Gothic Literature??? I really need alots of help to write this essay on Edger Allen Poe. Please help me if you can, I really need your help, thanks you very much.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001

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Julie, I feel your pain. I too have a horribel professor who wants to know the same "gothic Lit" Question. It seems to me that all of Poe's short stories were dark and gothic all concerning death and after life; with little pieces of clues lieing around, like the clock in the story, and how it was counting down to the deaths of all of the guests. Well I don't know if I did you any good, but maybe it will help to know that there is someone out here in your s

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

Setting: extravagant, darkly medieval with lurid, exaggerated structures. The action is limited to a gothic palace.

Characters: dark, evil, fated, surrounded by menace. Passions outside morality and reason, at war with nature. Prospero as the Byronic anti-hero(Don Juan).

Supernatural details: presence of the Red Death(grim reaper)and its disappearance upon discovery(removal of mask). Mystery. Shock. Triumph of death.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001