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Prince Prospero hides in his palace so he can escape the Red Death. In the story, the Read Death is a plague which the Prince and his guests are trying to avoid catching.
Prince Prospero followed the masked figure (The Red Death) through all of the chambers until he approached the figure in the 7th chamber (the black chamber). Prince Prospero intended to kill the...