Not sure if the average high school student is introduced to Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death", and if they are, do they really understand the meaning behind the colors in it? I was asked to read this short story during my Junior year in high school and I barely payed attention to it. I remember being too busy thinking about homecoming, or when my friends and I were going to hangout next.
Something along those lines.
But now that I've got an Associates degree and working towards getting my Bachelors, I've learned to look into short stories, poems and other works of art a little closer. What has become clear to me now is that those 7 rooms, those 7 different colors, all have [debatable] meanings behind them; they weren't just random chosen by Poe. Now that I see that, I find that short story amazing.
Now the rooms and the colors can be, as I mentioned, debatable. There's two different theories that can be attached to them, and personally I find it hard to sit there and say one is right over the others. I favor one more than the other, but that's because of personal reasons, while the other seem to have more evidence that it might be "right".
Maybe breaking down each theory might help other people decide which they see as more believable.
Maybe.
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