The masque of the red death meaning6/22/2023 Death is inevitable their attempt was bound to fail from the beginning. It does drive home how foolish Prospero and his pals were to think they could escape from death. You can easily see the ending as warning against foolishness. By the story's end, death has penetrated Prospero's holdout and completely destroyed it, and now holds "illimitable dominion." In other words, death's rule has no boundaries. Prospero's holdout was life's last holdout. Life, especially of the drunken and debauched variety, could continue there without fear. That's quite a last line, isn't it? The take-home message is "death conquers all." At the beginning of the story, the Red Death was all over Prospero's kingdom, but Prospero himself fled and created a place that was supposedly safe from death. "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all" (14).
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