Thursday, August 7, 2014

How do the guests avoid the seventh room in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

My son and I are covering this story right now.  He has an assignment to draw the castellated abbey of Prince Prospero.  Based on our understanding of the story, the rooms flow from east to west, with the black room being last.  The revelers simply "don't go there", as they are not required to go to it/through it to reach any of the other rooms.  They also are probably trying to avoid it, due to its' death the.

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