The gothic spa ce in The masque of the red death

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the short story The mask of red death by Edgar AllanPoe, focusing primarily on spatiality. As a theoretical starting point, we have theTopoanalysis proposal based on some ideas developed by Bachelard, Lotman,Osman Lins, among others. This paper also turns to Poe’s essay entitled ThePhilosophy of Furniture. In our analysis, we verify that the spatial path of thetext is divided mainly by the coordinate of the interior, revealing outside versus inside. A country as an including and an outward space and, as an enclosed andinterior space is approached by the abbey where the Duke runs away with hiscourt.