Prospero Popsicle Slush: Cooking Up a Character Explanation In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” the protagonist, Prince Prospero, represents a personified symbol of human life through the stages between birth and death. For my recipe, I parallelled his journey (depicted by the colors of his castle’s various rooms) by contrasting different popsicle flavors. I wanted to establish an evident theme that the different layers of life, although separated at first, become blended together once consumed through a “Straw of Life.” Additionally, in order to fully enjoy life and prevent it from going to waste, one must “drink up” this symbolic slushie before it melts into a syrupy brown mess. Although it is somewhat unclear throughout
