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In Poe's "Masque of the Red Death," I deem the 7 colored rooms as highly suggestive of the diverse stages of life. Since the rooms commence in the East and go in a Western movement, I see Poe's deliberate use as a commentary of life/death progression that we all tend to follow since the blue seems to coincide with the innocence of a baby and birth, purple with the childhood curiosity and energy, green with ...

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