In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," he deals with an unusual theme: the attempts of a group of wealthy people to insulate themselves from the plague by shutting themselves up in a mansion and throwing a ball. Although Poe was never to write another story precisely like this one, his work throughout his lifetime dealt with the theme of morbidity and death. Recently some critics, notably Kenneth Silverman, have postulated that …showed first 75 words of 1312 total…

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