Industrialization and class

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Industrialization and Class
Introduction
Thesis statement
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, challenged the power of the dominant society by comparing the main character and the Red Death if the whole society class functions of power; and the thesis statement resonating with ultimate holder of power.
Industrialization is a terminology that is applied to mean the development of industries to considerable scale. Industrialization has an influence on the social structures. Today people enjoy the high living standards basing on the industrial revolution. There is human suffering attached to the industrial revolution in the transformation of countries. It is affected in models to urbanize the rural settings.
The influence of industrialization has created challenges in social structures, working conditions and the living conditions. The earlier cities were built shoddily characterized with tenement houses with crowded people. The cities were poorly lit and had narrow streets. Clean water and sanitation were a challenge. The rich had the priority of the good life which was reserved for the few. Open sewers was the order of the day with them running down the streets carrying sewage water fouled by human waste and industrial waste, this sparked diseases such as typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera, typhus and other water and air borne diseases.
Malnutrition and air pollution was the order of the day. Social structures models developed by industrialization led to challenges resonating with drug abuse, alcoholism, prostitution and crime among other negative social aspects. The Masque of the Red Death is set in a country considered fictional (Cary 76).
Red Death plagues are actually a disease that causes the victims to die gruesomely and fast. The disease is spreading rampantly within the society a condition that the prince and Prospero feel hopeful and happy. The prince closes the doors of the palace to prevent chances of the plague and ignores the pleas of the people on the land (Helsing 102). The prince considering months of desperation among followers throws a ball considered fancy masquerade. The palace is decorated with one color resonating with green, purple, blue, orange and white, there are a number of other colors painted in the palace.
Rooms are decorated in such a way that the colors match the glass stained windows. The clock is so round in way that it is disrupting the orchestra and everyone stops talking. The clock is set to ring every one hour. Considering the moments that the clock is silent, the rooms are filled up with swirling and dreams. The room painted with black and red is avoided by the revelers and guests basing the presence of ominous ambience and the clock. Midnight comes and new guest appear. The guest is dressed in ghoulish manner with masks resembling the corpse, garments taking the shape of funeral shroud.
The face is filled with blood spots, this suggests that the guest maybe a victim of the Red Death. This makes Prospero angry with the guest pointing that the visitor had levity and little humor to join the party (Cary 76). The guests and revelers are afraid of the masked man in a state that they fail to stop him visiting each and every room. Prospero gathers confidence and catches up with the masked guest at the Red and Black room (Poe Para 2). Prospero dies as soon as he confronts the masked man. The revelers and guests charges at the black and red room to attack the cloaked man but they find the room empty, only find the costume. This leads to the death of each and every person in the castle (Cary 77).
The Red Devil had taken control of the castle. Red Death indicates the decay and darkness had infiltrated the so respected castle. The text puts pressure on what is assumed normal, reflecting on Prospero, guests, revelers, cloaked man and the symbolically painted rooms as well as the distracting clock (Poe Para 2). The features applied by the story are symbolically placed. The meanings of the symbols combine to convey particular messages. This is considered to as an allegory which has meanings in two levels.
Literal elements identifies with the colors of the rooms with symbolic aspects of life and death, this is the plot of the story (Cary 77). This story has the philosophical meanings in that life and death are prevalent and unavoidable to the humans. The Red Death in the story identifies with death which is presented allegorically and literally.
Aspects of the beauty, rich, luxuriant clothing and fabulous food in the castle are not respected by death, death strikes at mortal beings and not even a prince can stop or escape it (Cary). The story seems to have aspects of punishing Prospero from his arrogance (Poe Para 3), Prospero believed...