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Poe Response
Poe Response
Poe Response
Blood was
its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. …The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon
the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and sympathy of his fellow-men . . . When
his dominions were half depopulated, he [Prince Prospero] summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-
hearted friends . . . and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. . . A strong and loft
wall girded it in . . . had gates of iron. The courtiers . . . welded the bolts . . . With such precautions the courtiers
might bid defiance to contagion . . . All of these and security were within. Without was the “Read Death.” . . . while
the pestilence raged most furiously abroad . . . Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of
most unusual magnificence (Poe 269).
- Dayan
- lady and the slave, with the cat as stand-in, both facing violence, subordinated 241
- the idea of the slave who loves the master ,dependence and “reciprocal affection” 242
- still using
- “you own what you love” 242 – able to treat it however you like
- de-humanize by making people animals or angels – here both, wife loves animals, is in the house, etc
- “Poe articulates a specific relation of domination, where the speaker who has defined himself as possessor
is in turn defined by his possession” 247