<span>before Machiavelli, politics was strictly bonded with ethics, in theory if not in practice. According to an ancient tradition that goes back to Aristotle, politics is a sub-branch of ethics—ethics being defined as the moral behavior of individuals, and politics being defined as the morality of individuals in social groups or organized communities. Machiavelli was the first theorist to decisively divorce politics from ethics, and hence to give a certain autonomy to the study of politics. </span>
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The answer for the first one is the main themes in "The Masque of the Red Death" are art, reality, and class conflict. Art versus reality: Prospero's abbey symbolizes art's ability to enable individuals to create a universe distinct from reality.
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