When most people think of the color violet, they associate it with red, suffering or pain, and that death is near. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe revolves the seven apartments with the cycle of life. Each apartment has a different color representing a specific time in life. There are age ranges’ for each color except for the last apartment color which is black. The age range of violet for the life cycle is sixty or seventy to ninety. Violet is located in between white and black in this color scheme.
The seven apartment colors are blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. Blue represents a baby, happiness, youth, and being young. Blue is like the start of life, speaking in colors, birth. The next apartment color is purple. Purple represents happiness and fun. The age range for purple is five to eight years old. The next apartment color is green. Green represents adolescence and money. The age range for green is ten to twenty years old. That is the color that represents us. The next apartment color is orange. Orange represents vibrant, parties, lust for life, autumn and fall. The age range for orange is twenty one to fifty years old. The next apartment color is white. White represents plain, wisdom, and knowledge. The age range for white is fifty one to sixty or seventy. The next apartment color is violet. Violet represents red, suffering or pain, and that death is near. The age range for violet is sixty or seventy to ninety. The last and final apartment color is black. Black represents death and darkness. There is no age range for black because there is no more life on earth.
Violet does not relate to me that well right now because I am nowhere around that age. The only connection that I can make is the color violet and my grandma. My grandma also drives a white car and so does every other person that qualifies to be in that age range. That is the only thing that I can really think of for the color violet because I do not know many things that are that old or remind me of violet. I think that violet is the most depressing part of life because most old people think about death a lot. Thinking only about death is just so depressing to only be thinking about the negative and not being able to enjoy the last moments on Earth.
Thinking of months of the year, some people would consider violet as the month, November. People would say the month November because it is not quite at the end but it is fairly close. This color symbolizes not the last stage but what is leading to the last, the second to last. Sadly, this is one of the critical and saddening part of life.
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