Edgar Allan Poe describes, in this story, the arrival of a tragic plague: the black death. The characters in this story are Prince Prospero and his guests, invited by him to his palace to try to escape his illness; protagonist but perhaps greater is the mask of the red death. "The Red Death had long ravaged the land. No plague had ever been so fatal, or so horrible. Blood was HIS Avatar and its seal" The narrator of this story is omniscient and tells the events in the first person, in narration, there is a defined plot, but it corresponds perfectly with the fairy tale: we can therefore speak of a total parallel. The story is divided into three main sequences: the first serves to give the reader the definition of the moment in which the story takes place story and announces what is happening in the narrative; The second part contains the description of the abbey and its inhabitants; in the third sequence, the most narrative one, there is the unfolding of the entire story: with the arrival of death and its consequences. The story was set by Poe in an imaginary dimension outside of space and time, in a principality devastated by the plague. called "The Red Death". Prince Prospero locked up a thousand courtiers in a fortified abbey equipped with all comforts. After a few months of abstinence, Prince Prospero organized a fantastic masquerade party. The dance that takes place in the castle can represent the course of life, through different experiences, represented by the true colors of the rooms, while the inexorable time dominates the whole. The ebony pendulum, with its tolling, marks its inexorability and it is no coincidence that it is placed in the seventh room, the one t...... middle of paper......Despite appearances to the contrary, that is Prospero wants to defend himself from contagion, Prospero because craving is the effigy of death. The room is the objective correlative of Prospero's desire to end the INS's seesaw between dreams and reality on earth. Prospero's alienation and frustration resulting from the inability to transform his dreams into reality, and the projection of the longing for death that is embodied by the image of the room, are the most evident representation of this. The clock stopped keeping time, the braziers went out. Darkness, decay and Death reigned over all. "I think this sentence, the end of this story, is that I don't need to hide in a magnificent castle, isolated and barred, Death, in this case the Red Death, will also be the way to enter and show up at the right time, at the stroke of midnight.