The climax of the story comes after the Red Death arrives at Prince prospero's masked ball. Prospero had locked himself and 1000 of his closest friends inside an Abbey in order to escape the disease that plagued his land. during the 6th month of quarantine, Prospero decided to throw a lavish party to celebrate having escaped the Red Death. during the party, however, prospero spies someone whom he believes to be one of his guests who had the audacity to come from the party dressed in a red death costume. He chases the figure from the room to room until they reach the black room in the western part of the hall. There, the figure turns toward Prospero and the prince falls to the floor dead (climax). He could not escape death no matter how well he tried to barricade himself from the world.
The speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” says that for her, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” meaning that "<span>d. her life has been full of challenges and difficulties" since crystal implies ease and wealth.</span>
Answer:in explantion
Explanation:
Okonkwo, the son of the effeminate and lazy Unoka, strives to make his way in a world that seems to value manliness. In so doing, he rejects everything for which he believes his father stood. Unoka was idle, poor, profligate, cowardly, gentle, and interested in music and conversation. Okonkwo consciously adopts opposite ideals and becomes productive, wealthy, thrifty, brave, violent, and adamantly opposed to music and anything else that he perceives to be “soft,” such as conversation and emotion. He is stoic to a fault.
Okonkwo achieves great social and financial success by embracing these ideals. He marries three women and fathers several children. Nevertheless, just as his father was at odds with the values of the community around him, so too does Okonkwo find himself unable to adapt to changing times as the white man comes to live among the Umuofians. As it becomes evident that compliance rather than violence constitutes the wisest principle for survival, Okonkwo realizes that he has become a relic, no longer able to function within his changing society.
Okonkwo is a tragic hero in the classical sense: although he is a superior character, his tragic flaw—the equation of manliness with rashness, anger, and violence—brings about his own destruction. Okonkwo is gruff, at times, and usually unable to express his feelings (the narrator frequently uses the word “inwardly” in reference to Okonkwo’s emotions). But his emotions are indeed quite complex, as his “manly” values conflict with his “unmanly” ones, such as fondness for Ikemefuna and Ezinma. The narrator privileges us with information that Okonkwo’s fellow clan members do not have—that Okonkwo surreptitiously follows Ekwefi into the forest in pursuit of Ezinma, for example—and thus allows us to see the tender, worried father beneath the seemingly indifferent exterior.
