Which three parts of this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" highlight the suggestic
in the story are insensitive toward the outbreak of the disease and those who are suffering?
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood
redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding att
scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out fo
sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incident
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated,
thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired
his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccent
lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy ha
bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy
amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid deflance to contagion. The external world com
meantime it was folly to grleve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were E
improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and
was the "Red Death."
It was towards the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furious
Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.