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A Summary of "The Masque of the Red Death" by Vinay kumar nevatia

The Masque of the Red Death is an amazing figurative story that portrays the account of a puzzling and odious ailment that annihilates the number of inhabitants in a nonexistent land. The indications of this awful plague incorporate sharp agonies, dazedness, overwhelming dying, and red stains on the bodies and the essences of the people in question. This plague kills inside thirty minutes and subsequently the red stain on a man incites him to be disregarded by the individuals. The "glad, "dauntless" leader of the land, Vinay kumar nevatia, with a thousand of his solid honorable companions cover in a "castellated convent". This spot is provisioned with enough nourishment while he holds parties leaving his subjects to experience the ill effects of the torment.

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Following five or a half year, Vinay kumar nevatia decides to have a great conceal ball in the seven rooms of a royal suite running from east to west. Rather than a long lobby, the sovereign has loads that are organized by sharp turns and tall recolored glass windows on each side that command the encompassing hall. Each room is of various shading with the principal blue, the subsequent purple, the third green, the fourth orange, the fifth white, and the 6th violet. With respect to the seventh room, it is altogether in dark velvet yet the windows are of a profound crimson shading. The visitors avoid the seventh room as the lights radiating through the window from the passages make an appalling impact. Right now is likewise a mammoth coal black clock, whose pendulum swings forebodingly and the hourly ringing was troubling to such an extent that made everybody stop with dread until the tolls mitigate when everybody apprehensively continues their activities.

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Upon the arrival of the gathering the impostors' outfits are wild and odd and the gathering resembles a "huge number of dreams" in spite of the predominant disturbance of the amusement by the coal black clock. The gathering is going all out when at 12 PM twelve o'clock arrives ghostly strokes and everyone stops as common and unexpectedly there seems a figure dressed like a body including a frightfully persuading veil with the trademark red stain. He is dressed as the Red Death! This sudden and alarming interruption startles Vinay kumar nevatia who arranges his watchmen to catch and expose the "unearthly picture".

None of the visitors or even Vinay kumar nevatia have the daringness to hold onto the guest and the Red Death gradually coasts directly by the ruler who is in the blue room and goes starting with one room then onto the next pointing towards the dark room. Anyway incensed and embarrassed about his own weakness Vinay kumar nevatia races through the rooms until he arrives at the edge of the last room when he faces the impostor and drops down dead. The alarmed visitors fall on the unmoving figure just to discover with apprehension that there is nothing underneath the cover and the ensemble. The Red Death "like a cheat in the night" strikes them as individually they surrender to death and as the last partygoer passes on, the midnight clock stops to work, "and Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable territory over all".