There are times when people feel the need to escape from their realities in order to feel secure. When life presents one with hardships that they cannot endure, many people try to find a solution by running away from the cause of their troubles rather than dealing with them head on. In the stories “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Pole illustrate how individuals try to escape their realities only to end up being the victims of the very same reality. The author seems to be passing the message across that there is no way that one can escape reality.
Escaping one’s reality is always a wrong idea. People that escape reality create bigger problems for themselves as indicated in the stories. The prince and other nobles decided to escape the red death plaque by hiding themselves in an abbey while the poor died. They did not pay attention to the disease because they believed that they had the power to escape it. Instead of finding a cure, the nobles decide to party and lead a luxurious life after all they could afford it. Their mercilessness and ignorance is what leads them to die in the end (Cutts, Lawn & Poe, 1982). They are ignorant of the fact that they do not know the cause of the disease or even its origin. They think that it is only there for a while and it will disappear as soon as it is done with the poor …show more content…
He is bothered by the evil eye that the old man whom he lives with possesses. His ignorance becomes evident when he welcomes police into his house and tries to sit right at the spot where he has buried the old man’s remains (Dunn, Espinosa & Poe, 2010). If he was wise enough he would have realized that personal guilt would always be his down fall and the fact that it took him so many nights of planning to carry out the murder should have been lesson enough that if he went ahead with the murder he would not be able to conceal