"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable domionion over all"
This, the last line of the story, illustrates how everyone will eventually succumb to death, darkness, and decay. Even though the Prince and his nobles had hope that they would hide from and outlast the plague to live in luxury, the Red Death came searching for them, and they ultimately lost their lives to the plague they were hiding from. Edgar Allen Poe, the author of the story, illustrates for us how death will find everyone, and no matter how hard you try to evade it, you will perish in the end because it "holds illimitable dominion over all".
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