...............................it's a required story to read freshman year.
so I have read it.

"Poe’s fictional red death resembles a real disease that occurred in Medieval and Renaissance Europe–septicemic plague. Within hours after infecting a person, this deadliest form of plague caused high fever and turned the skin purple. A victim of septicemic plague sometimes got up in the morning hale and healthy, without an ache or a pain, and went to bed in a grave. Plague was spread from rats to humans by fleas. The disease manifested itself in three forms: bubonic plague, which caused painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes of the armpits and groin; pneumonic plague, which filled the lungs with fluid; and septicemic plague, which poisoned the bloodstream. Septicemic plague was far less common than the other two forms of the disease. Sometimes one form of the disease killed by itself; at other times, it progressed into another of the forms before claiming a victim. Together, these three manifestations of plague were known as the Black Death because of the livid hue of corpses caused by subcutaneous hemorrhaging. Black, of course, is the color of the seventh room in “The Masque of the Red Death.” "

Please, just stop. You're making yourself look like an idiot. You have never read the story. You do not understand the simple symbolism.


And I'm stupid? Go check which usage of 'you're' you used. Simple fucking grammar. Plus, you're arguing with me for the sake of agruing. I don't really care about what you googled about the story, I didn't even like it that much. It was a simple joke because you said I looked like I have bubonic plague. Which was quite the statement, I must add. Red Death is not a real illness. AND FOR THAT MATTER- WHO GIVES A FUCK.
Please, call me fat or ugly or something with real substance that is actually feasable.