Masque of the Red Death Essay, Color purple

In “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, there are rooms in a castle that are different colors. In the castle there is a blue room, a purple room, a green room, an orange room, a white room, a violet room, and lastly, at the end of the hall is a black room. This book involves a lot of symbolism. These are the colors for which the stages of life go in. For instance, the blue room is the birth stage of life and the black room is death. After the blue room is the purple room. In the story, the color purple symbolizes happiness and fun.

The color purple represents the stage in life in which you would be around 5-9 years old, a toddler. It symbolizes the stage in your life in which you would be the happiest and you would have the most fun. It symbolizes youth. When you are in your youth you would be having the most fun. Once you his adolescence you have to start getting serious and considering your future.  It is in between the colors blue, which is birth, and green, which is adolescence. You need this stage to get to progress to other stages.

The color purple is important to “The Masque of the Red Death” because it represents a stage of life, just like blue represents birth and black represents death. It’s an important stage, because you need to be a toddler before you can become an adolescent, just like you need all the other stages to advance in life. The color purple relates to my life because I have watched kids grow up around me. For example, I remember when my neighbor’s first child was born. I remember when she was toddler and how much fun she always had. She always seemed so happy. Over the years I’ve watched her grow up. Now she’s in 4^th grade! I’ve also watched her brother and sister grow up. Over the years, I’ve seen their looks change and their personality. They all started out so careless and would just go with stuff, now their starting to realize that they have a say. They never had to worry about school, but now all of them are in school and have to worry about everyday stuff such as homework, friends and grades.