#MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH PHANTOM OF THE OPERA COSTUME WINDOWS#
It's hung entirely in black velvet, but the windows aren't black: instead, they're a deep blood red color. The seventh room is particularly interesting.The first room is blue, the second one purple, the third one green, the fourth one orange, the fifth white, the sixth violet. Each room is a different color, too (thanks to a serious job on the wall hangings) – even the windows in the rooms are painted.
Unlike most suites, they don't form a straight line, but are at odd angles to each other. The ball is set in a suite of seven rooms, which run from east to west.The narrator can't get over just how cool the setup is, and spends the next two pages raving about it. Five or six months after shutting himself up, Prince Prospero decides to have the biggest, weirdest masked ball anyone's ever seen.The abbey (which Prospero designed himself) is filled to the brim with all the makings of an incredible party: lots of food, jesters, dancers, musicians, and wine.Prince Prospero is quite the party animal, and plans to have a good time while the rest of the world dies.The doors of the abbey are welded shut, so no one can get in.So he takes a thousand of his knights and maidens and shuts himself up with them in a hidden "castellated abbey" (that would be an abbey made over into a castle, with battlements). Prince Prospero, the ruler of said kingdom currently being ravaged by the Red Death, is "happy" and "dauntless" and decides he doesn't want to bother with the disease.
It's a terrible way to die: shooting pains, seizures, bleeding from all the pores, and then death.
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