The Masque Of The Red Death Isolation Essay

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The Downfalls of Isolation “The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them,” Antoine de Saint-Exupery said in a famous quote. “The machine”, whether an airplane, car, or something different, will never truly help man outrun or hide from problems. “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe also paints this picture. A prince named Prospero and his closest friends desired to escape the disease called Red Death, which plagued the town around them. To accomplish this, the group hid out in an abbey, but soon discovered that they could never truly keep the disease out and ended up dying. Prince Prospero could have reached out to the dying people in the town possibly with a medicine which …show more content…

Fearing death and pain for themselves and their family, Christians tend to isolate their religious selves from the world and attempt to “fit in” with the rest of the population. “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution… with such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion,” Poe writes at two respective spots in “The Masque of the Red Death, demonstrating the fear of pain possessed by Prince Prospero and his friends which caused them to draw away into an abbey. Similarly, when Christians nowadays take a stand in foreign countries, they risk death by Islamic terrorist groups or long-term prison sentences by the government. This actually mirrors a greater problem: God’s people not fully trusting Him. Whereas God’s children should act like the patriarchs, prophets, disciples, and apostles, trusting Him so much that they go blindly into what He wishes, fully the knowing the possible earthly consequences, they tend to shy away, as their human nature prompts them to. Instead of listening to the Holy Spirit and trusting their lives in the care of the only One who can keep it truly safe, Christians trust themselves and the world. Fearing physical persecution the children of God often draw away from the needs of those around

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