Answer:
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he
summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court,
and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys
Explanation:
The excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" best shows Prince Prospero's self-centeredness is option D.
This is because even in the face of a plague that was killing people, Prince Prospero called a feast to celebrate and he was happy that his feast was well attended without caring about their safety, or for that matter, his.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vian- that this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom- and thatbgoverment of the people shall not perish for on the earth." This is the sentence that described Abraham Lincolns speech of The Gettysburg Address
Henry Roth wrote the book and it is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century bebe :)
The Declaration of Independence
