For the typical female, she is already dead or dies during the short story or poem. For example, in “Ulalume”, the male narrator is out walking and somehow stumbles upon the tomb of his dead lover who he put there a while ago. Like many other pieces, Poe tends to immortalize a women’s beauty by romanticizing her death. For “Ulalume”, the unexplainable pull that brings the narrator to his beloved’s tomb. As for men though, they usually aren’t killed but when they are, it is as a hero or an inescapable event. In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero, “a bold and robust man” (Poe, The Masque of the Red Death 210), dies trying to be a hero, or at least standing up to the Red Death. For Poe, a man’s death is a significant event that only happens in extreme
For the typical female, she is already dead or dies during the short story or poem. For example, in “Ulalume”, the male narrator is out walking and somehow stumbles upon the tomb of his dead lover who he put there a while ago. Like many other pieces, Poe tends to immortalize a women’s beauty by romanticizing her death. For “Ulalume”, the unexplainable pull that brings the narrator to his beloved’s tomb. As for men though, they usually aren’t killed but when they are, it is as a hero or an inescapable event. In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero, “a bold and robust man” (Poe, The Masque of the Red Death 210), dies trying to be a hero, or at least standing up to the Red Death. For Poe, a man’s death is a significant event that only happens in extreme