It is decorated in black and red, two colors that have always had a negative, if not deadly, connotation. Additionally, this room is the only one out of seven that is not entirely monochromatic: “The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue, But in this chamber only, the color of the windows fail to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet - a deep blood color.” (Poe 4). Because of the choice of colors, the revelers stay out of this room at all costs. Its black decorations are depressing enough, but the red, which is closely associated with the Red Death due to the bloodshed it causes, fills the room and illuminates everything with a macabre blood-colored glow. It is ghastly and fear-inducing, and only the bravest step foot inside the seventh and final
It is decorated in black and red, two colors that have always had a negative, if not deadly, connotation. Additionally, this room is the only one out of seven that is not entirely monochromatic: “The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue, But in this chamber only, the color of the windows fail to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet - a deep blood color.” (Poe 4). Because of the choice of colors, the revelers stay out of this room at all costs. Its black decorations are depressing enough, but the red, which is closely associated with the Red Death due to the bloodshed it causes, fills the room and illuminates everything with a macabre blood-colored glow. It is ghastly and fear-inducing, and only the bravest step foot inside the seventh and final