Prince Prospero is introduced in the story as well as the “red death” which has been long devastating the country.
Climax
Prospero wants to escape the natural process of death by bringing a thousand of his noble and rich friends to his castle and simply hiding from the disease which is sweeping through the kingdom
Falling action
Guests are arriving at the castle and the different colored rooms are described from east to west . No one enters the last room which is black and red and people are scared to enter. Also the chiming of the clock every hour provokes anxiety.
Resolution
As midnight is about to come, a guest dressed as the red death arrives at the party and nobody thinks much about it because it was a mask party after all.
As Prospero goes to confront the guest, he suddenly falls to the floor, dead.
The other guests at the party realize that the masked man is the disease itself, the actual red death. The party-goers try to do something about the situation but all die too. Prospero’s efforts to escape death fail and the red death takes over the castle.