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Compare And Contrast Roderick Usher And The Masque Of The Red Death

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Maxwell Snyder
Mazza P.7
11-21-14
The House of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe was a very twisted man, his mind is represented vividly in all of the hundreds of stories he wrote. Naturally, people believe Poe would spill his mind out onto the paper in front of him causing people to believe the stories he wrote correlates to his own life. In two very famous Poe stories, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he really seemed to let his mind flow and his conscious leak onto the paper. Two characters Poe produced, I believe due to his thoughts and experiences, are Prince Prospero and Roderick Usher. They give off the aura of being straight from Poe’s brain. Prince Prospero and Roderick Usher are both alike and contrasting

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