CHRISTIANITY'S SEVEN DEADLY SINS Instructions: Another interpretation is that the seven rooms in "Masque of the Red Death" represent the Seven Deadly
Sins, a list of transgressions that has been used since the early times of Christianity to teach about humanity's tendency to
sin. Review the list of sins below and match cach to a room that might symbolize it. Explain how the room's color might
symbolize the sin and how Prospeto and the partygocts may have been guilty of cach.
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Room Color Symbolizing this Sin Reasoning
Lust
Orange
Orange is a mix of red and yellow-colors of passion,
excitement
Greed
Blue
Gluttony
Purple
Envy
Green
Anger/
Wrath
Black/Red
Violet
Pridel
Vanity
Sloth
Laziness
White