The three parts of the excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" that suggest the powerful and wealthy were insensitive to other's suffering are the following.
- “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.”
- “The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.”
- “The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.”
<h3>What does the excerpt reveal?</h3>
The excerpt we are analyzing here belong to the short story "The Masque of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe. It reveals that, while a plague devastates a country, those who are wealthy and powerful are simply insensitive to the suffering of others.
That is particularly revealed by the three parts that follow:
- “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.”
- “The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.”
- “The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.”
As we can see, the Prince does not care that others are in pain and dying. As long as he himself can hide from the disease and live pleasantly, everything is fine.
With the information above in mind, we can conclude that the answer provided above is correct.
The excerpt for this question is the following:
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
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. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death."
It was towards the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.
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